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2023 World Perspectives(1): Epoch of Multiple Crises — We Have a World to Win!

During the World Congress of ISA held from 30 January to 5 February delegates and visitors held intense discussions on ‘World Perspectives’. As a consequence, the document “Epoch of multiple crises — we have a world to win” was passed. We publish her...

Revolutionary theory: What is Trotskyism?

The ideas of Leon Trotsky, and Trotskyism, have been much maligned and distorted through history. But who was Leon Trotsky, what is Trotskyism, and what is the relevance for the struggles we face today in the 2020s? Paul Hunt, Socialist Alternative ...

Explainer: How Marxists see China’s property crash

Dikang, chinaworker.info China’s property market is now in its second year of deep slump. This is the most serious of all the serious economic problems facing the CCP dictatorship today. Why is this the case? It is because inves...

The Collapse of Stalinism (Part 1)

Historic document from International Socialist Alternative (formerly known as the Committee for a Workers’ International) now available in Chinese The Collapse of Stalinism is an important historical document of ISA (formerly CWI) published in June ...

A road map for the US-China Cold War

Book review: Danger Zone – The Coming Conflict with China by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley offers a very scary road map for US victory in the new imperialist Cold War Adam N Lee, chinaworker.info Brands and Beckley, specialists in geopolitical his...

Revolutionary history: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1931–38

The Spanish Revolution of 1931–1939 is one of the greatest events in working-class history in the twentieth century. Heroic Spanish workers rose up against an attempted coup in 1936 by the army, commanded by the reactionary fascist General Francisco ...

US: Pulled back from the brink – Flatlining Democratic majority reanimated by Republican extre...

Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) Editorial Board Just a few months ago, the Democrats were headed for a complete bloodbath in the midterms. In July, Biden’s approval ratings hovered around 38%, lower than Trump’s at the same time in ...

Irish history: “Derry — This was murder” — 50 years since Bloody Sunday

Sunday, 30 January 1972 saw one of the bloodiest and most callous atrocities committed during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. In an event that would become known as Bloody Sunday, British paratroopers (paras) fired indiscriminate live rounds into a...

ISA World Cadre School 2022: Mass revolts against morbid capitalism

ISA cadre school discusses world events Per Ake Westerlund, ISA (This article was first published on 28 July 2022) The world is experiencing turbulent events, coming at break kneck speed — economic and political crises, wars and mass uprisings. T...

United States: Inflation now, recession soon – Capitalists want us to pay for their crisis

Stephen Edwards, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) (This article was first published on 7 July 2022) Working people in the U.S. are facing the worst inflation in 40 years. Gas is at $6 a gallon in many places; groceries are up by mor...

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North Korea and China: What drives their “unbreakable friendship”? 

Xi Jinping’s June visit to Pyongyang revealed a CCP regime on the backfoot, needing to shore up China’s influence in its geopolitical “backyard” V...

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