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Ireland: An Historic Election

How can real change be delivered? Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland) statement General Election 2020 was historic, the combined vote of the two main capitalist parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael went below 50%. 2016 was the first, when it dipped just ...

Putin Launches a Creeping Constitutional Coup

Troubled times ahead Rob Jones Sotsialisticheskoe Soprotivleniye (CWI in Russia) The CWI has since been renamed International Socialist Alternative (ISA)   It appears to have come as a complete shock even to government ministers, when towards the e...

CWI changes its name to International Socialist Alternative (ISA)

New website of International Socialist Alternative (ISA - formerly the CWI) Welcome to internationalsocialist.net, the new website of International Socialist Alternative (formerly the Committee for a Workers' International). It will provide regular,...

‘Phase one’ trade deal doesn’t end the US-China trade war

Confrontation between the two biggest powers set to escalate Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The ‘phase one’ trade agreement signed by the US and China on 15 January does not mark the end of their almost two-year trade war. Even as...

Australia’s bushfire catastrophe – a socialist view

Australia shows the climate disaster is already happening By Jeremy Trott, Socialist Action (CWI in Australia) additional reporting by Adam N Lee The scale of this year’s bushfires is unprecedented, affecting every state on the continent. ...

Iran: Trump brings region closer to war

While we oppose US imperialism’s self-declared “right” to assassinate its opponents, no socialist will shed any tears for Qassem Soleimani Rob Jones, CWI The headline and editorial in the Lebanese pro-Hezbollah newspaper “Al-Akhbar” on Friday read:...

US Congress passes Hong Kong Democracy Act

Apart from enraging Beijing what difference will the new law make? Dahu, chinaworker.info The US Congress has now passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate on 20 November. This reflects the maj...

How Socialists Defeated Amazon’s Bid to Buy Seattle’s Elections

Kshama Sawant Re-Elected Despite Corporate PACs Spending $4 Million to Buy City Council By Seattle Socialist Alternative Despite big business and Amazon going all-in behind corporate candidates in all seven city council races, Seattle voters reject...

Capitalist rivalry, trade wars & Globalisation Today

The last year-and-a-half has seen a steady escalation of a trade war between the world’s two major capitalist powers, the United States and China. This dispute takes place against the background of the world economy undergoing a period of what has be...

Hong Kong: Solidarity with the Chilean Mass Struggle

Oppressed People of the World, Unite! Statement by Socialist Action On 8 November, supporters of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) and the League of Social Democrats, including wrongly disqualified legislator Leung Kwok-hung staged a protest at the...

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Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster

March 11, 2026 Leon Pinsky, Sociaist Alternative (ISA in the US) A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Part...

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