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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
Trotsky’s analysis and struggle against capitalism and Stalinism provides vital lessons for the class struggle today (article is a reprint from August 2010, with some minor changes)
Per-Åke Westerlund, Socialist Justice Party (ISA Sweden)
On Aug...
The role of police and how real change can be won
Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA)
The nature of policing in the United States is inseparable from the violent, racist history of capitalism in this country. From slave patrols; to Bull...
This is an edited version of a speech given by Peter Chan of chinaworker.info to the ISA's Virtual Marxist University in July 2020, which is now publ...
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