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, ...
How was capitalism restored in China?
This article was first published in 2015 in the Greek magazine Marxist Thought. It is now published in English for the first time.
Vincent Kolo
In March, China’s ornamental ‘parliament’ the National People’s C...
Friday 8th May marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe
Paddy Meehan Socialist party (ISA in Northern Ireland)
In the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, the establishment are appealing to the ‘Blitz spirit’ and the sen...
The Stalinists in Indochina learned nothing from the Chinese experience
International Socialist Alternative
Most histories of the struggle against French colonial rule in Vietnam reflect the Stalinist traditions of the Hanoi regime, and ignore or s...
USSR, with this “malignant bureaucracy” at the helm, as still a workers state, albeit a “degenerated workers state.”
Peter Hadden (Socialist Party) (ISA in Ireland)
This article is a chapter from the 1999 publication The Struggle for Socialism ...
The truth is that neither the victorious Islamist ‘rebels nor the imperialist powers involved on both sides represent the interests of the region’s pe...
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