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US presidential elections: Trump in trouble and Biden in hiding

Workers’ Alternative Urgently Needed. Socialist Alternative, USA Erin Brightwell 2020 is not the election year that anyone expected. Presidential election politics are now utterly intertwined with the global pandemic that has killed nearly 165,00...

Belarus: Lukashenko uses ‘tikhari’ and ‘cosmonauts’ against working people

Independent action by the working class can break the current deadlock.  Rob Jones Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa — ISA in Russia After weeks of stand-off between the mass protesters and the Lukashenko regime, the current deadlock can only be...

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, ...

Indian and Chinese soldiers die for the economic and geopolitical interests of their ruling classes

The military conflict in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, on the border between China and India has again escalated as the two countries fight for markets. Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party (ISA Austria) On June 15, 20 Indian soldiers and possibl...

Oil prices collapse

The spectre of deflation Tony Wilsdon, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA) The collapse in oil prices in the second quarter of 2020 will be a further accelerator of the deepening world economic depression. The New York Times writes: “Just a few month...

Belarus – Endgame being played out

Today strikes have continued to spread. The coming days will decide the question one way or another. Rob Jones, Socialist Alternative (ISA Russia) Today strikes have continued to spread. Lukashenko speaking at a Minsk factory stated that “We have...

Capitalism rushes to re-open as pandemic grows

The new blame game Bill Hopwood, Socialist Alternative (ISA Canada) Around the world, countries are lifting the restrictions that were introduced to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. People are being allowed to leave their homes, and workplaces, caf...

US: Socialists and the state – how to end racist policing

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...

EU in crisis and COVID-19

The €540 billion fund is not the ‘game changer’ that the headlines suggested Finghín Kelly, Socialist Party (ISA Ireland) Last week saw a major clash between eurozone finance ministers with a 16 meeting ending in a deadlock before a face-saving m...

The US-China Cold War: Towards a bipolar global economy

The US-China Cold War is escalating. We stand for solidarity between workers and oppressed, east and west, to rid the world of capitalism and imperialism. Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info “There’s no floor under the U.S.-China relationship. We keep...

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Trump’s Surrender – Will the Iran War Deal Hold?

June 15, 2026 Danny Byrne, ISA International Political Committee On 6 March, after only a week of war, Trump wrote that “there will be no dea...

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