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Review: Framing Britney Spears
The documentary ‘Framing Britney Spears’, aired recently in the UK and Ireland. It documents the #FreeBritney movement and tracks Spears’ career, and the events that led up to the conservatorship that the 39-year-old performer and artist is currently...
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Poland: Defeat from the jaws of victory
In August 1980, Poland’s Stalinist regime was rocked by a massive strike wave which swept across the country
Paul Newberry, Socialist Alternative (ISA in Poland)
Arguably, Poland came closest to a successful workers’ revolt against Stalini...
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Poland: 50th anniversary of the workers uprising on the Baltic coast
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the December 1970 workers’ protests against Poland’s Stalinist regime and the bloody massacre known as “Black Thursday”.
Paul Newberry, Alternatywa Socjalistyczna (ISA Poland)
This month marks the 50th anniv...
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How do Marxists approach the national question?
The national question is a crucial question in China as it is around the world
First published in the Socialist (社会主义者) magazine by ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
More than 100 million of China’s population is made up of non-Han minoriti...
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How would a planned economy work?
Defence of democratic socialist planning a fundamental task for successful social transformation
Peter Delsing, LSP/PSL (ISA in Belgium)
This article is based on an introductory speech given to a commission on ‘Marxist economics — How would a pla...
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25N — We Need Socialist Feminism Against Capitalist Violence!
The fight for an end to violence against women must be an anti-capitalist fight.
Statement by the ISA’s International Women’s Bureau
November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, founded in 1981 after the m...
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Capitalism and COVID-19: Why We Need a Planned Economy
weak spots and vulnerabilities built into every joint in the capitalist system.
Keely Mullen Socialist Alternative (ISA-the US)
Capitalism is set up like a house of cards. Disjointed supply chains, competition for component parts, research a...
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Keynesianism and the crisis of capitalism
Is the problem neoliberalism or capitalism?
George Martin Fell Brown and Tony Gong, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA)
The current economic crisis may have been triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, but its roots lie in a deeper crisis of capital...
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Eighty years since Leon Trotsky’s assassination
Arming a New Generation with Revolutionary Method.
Lynn Walsh
On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal blow with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, an agent sent to Mexico by Stalin’s secret police, the GPU, to murder the exiled revolutionary, ...
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Trotsky in Norway
In the 1930s Trotsky and his family were finding it impossible to secure safe refuge. Deported from France, refused entry into Britain, they moved to Norway.
This article describes how an alliance of Stalinists, fascists and 'democrats' ensured th...
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Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map
Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014
Vincent Kolo
Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan...
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