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Do the Ukrainian offensives around Kharkiv and in the south mean that the nature of the war has changed? How much pressure are Putin and the Russian troops under? What will be the effect on the global economy and political situation? Per-Åke Westerl...

We can’t rely on the state to fight Trump Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) The FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8 was presented as an attempt to recover boxes of documents that Trump took from the Wh...

China’s current heatwave is the longest and harshest since records began Hong Liuxing, chinaworker.info Temperatures have risen as high as 45C degrees. Extreme heat of over 40C has been recorded for more than 70 days in a row, affecting 900m people...

Pelosi’s arrival in Taiwan watched by 200 million mainland Chinese • Dramatic escalation of tensions between two unstable superpowers Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The chain of events sparked by Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on 2-3 August si...

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...

On this day 77 years ago, the U.S. government dropped the second atomic bomb in the center of Nagasaki, a Japanese city of more than a quarter of a million people with no tactical military value. The following article is about the rising threat of nu...

The revolution continues, the whole system has to go! Serge Jordan, ISA (This article was first published on 10 July 2022) Fast-paced events in crisis-ridden Sri Lanka have taken yet a new turn today, Saturday 9 July, as hundreds of thousands of p...

As government ministers and leading Tory figures abandon Boris Johnson’s government, he faces the most serious crisis of his time as Prime Minister. Socialist Alternative (ISA in England, Wales and Scotland) statement (This article was first publis...

Now escalate and coordinate! Hugh Caffrey, Socialist Alternative (ISA in England, Wales & Scotland) (This article was first published on 25 June 2022) As the third day of the national strike by rail-workers organised in the RMT union draws to ...

The growing mortgage rebellion shows how events in China are moving fast chinaworker.info China is being shaken by a new resistance movement. Tens of thousands of mortgage rebels have announced they will no longer pay back their housing loans for unf...