Reviews

Book review: ‘Minority Rule’ by Ash Sarkar

The book is a deep dive into the increasingly polarised public debates which centre around questions of identity. The issues it takes on are perhaps even more pressing now than they were at the time the book was drafted. Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socia...

International Women’s Day: Push back against militarisation and sexist attacks from the far right

In many parts of the world, the clock appears to be turning back on the gains made by the women’s movement and workers’ struggles in the past. This is a symptom of a capitalist system which, in its state of crisis and decay, turns towards reactionary...

Kick pinkwashing out of Pride!

This article was written by socialist and LGBTQ+ campaigners in Britain. In countries around the world, including Taiwan, big companies have hijacked Pride seasons, gay parades and other events for many years to "whitewash" their own image at these e...

China’s ‘Japanification’ worse than Japan’s

Socialist magazine editorial part 3 (the first and second parts of this article series were published on 5 September and 8 September 2024)  “Perhaps even more difficult” than Japan in the 1990s – that is the verdict of Lu Ting, chief China economist...

Half the world is voting this year, & incumbents are in trouble

George Martin Fell Brown, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) (This article was first published on 8 July 2024) This November, millions of Americans will vote in a presidential election where we’re expected to choose between two candid...

“China’s rise” – an outdated view

New Cold War: Capitalist East and West are both in decline Editorial, issue 75 of Socialist magazine (China magazine published by ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) Socialist magazine and our international organisation ISA differ with the analysis...

Taiwan and the global imperialist conflict

This article is an excerpt from a speech given by Vincent Kolo of chinaworker.info to socialists in South Korea Under imperialism each major power tries to weaken its rivals by economic but also by military pressure. The struggle over Taiwan is an e...

Ukraine War: Two years into an epoch-defining conflict

End the imperialist meat-grinder! For international working class struggle against war and imperialism Danny Byrne, ISA International Executive (This article was first published on 26 February 2024) The fall of the town of Avdiivka to Russian troo...

United States: Trump is sweeping the Republican primary. What would a second term mean for working p...

Varun Belur, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) (This article was first published on 1 February 2024) The Republican presidential primaries are underway, but it isn’t much of a contest. After decisively winning the Iowa caucuses and N...

United States: Undefeated – Lessons from 10 years of a socialist in office

Long before Bernie Sanders and AOC were household names, Kshama Sawant was elected as the first open socialist in Seattle in nearly a century. Kshama has remained the lone socialist on the City Council for the past ten years — with which she and Seat...

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Hungary: Orbán Ousted From Power

April 14, 2026, Per Olsson, Socialistisk Alternative (ISA in Sweden) The next step – a workers’ struggle for real change Sunday’s (April 12) parliam...

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