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China: Xi Jinping’s 20th Congress caps five years of political disasters

Xi’s totalitarian rule is steering China towards revolutionary upheavals Editorial from Socialist (社會主義者) magazine, published by International Socialist Alternative in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan The Chinese regime (CCP) is holding its 20th Congress ...

US: Pulled back from the brink – Flatlining Democratic majority reanimated by Republican extre...

Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) Editorial Board Just a few months ago, the Democrats were headed for a complete bloodbath in the midterms. In July, Biden’s approval ratings hovered around 38%, lower than Trump’s at the same time in ...

Iran: Justice for Zhina (Mahsa) Amini! Down with the Islamic regime!

Build international socialist-feminist solidarity with the growing movement against gender based and state violence! ISA & ROSA International Socialist Feminists (This article was first published on 20 September 2022) The killing of Zhina (Mahs...

ISA World Cadre School 2022: Mass revolts against morbid capitalism

ISA cadre school discusses world events Per Ake Westerlund, ISA (This article was first published on 28 July 2022) The world is experiencing turbulent events, coming at break kneck speed — economic and political crises, wars and mass uprisings. T...

Ukraine: A turning point in the war?

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...

US: War of words on Trump home raid heats up

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 heatwave “the most severe ever recorded in the world”

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...

What’s behind the Taiwan Strait crisis?

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...

United States: Inflation now, recession soon – Capitalists want us to pay for their crisis

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...

The New Cold War brings a new nuclear dystopia

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...

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Iran Ceasefire – Trump’s Biggest TACO

April 8, 2026. Per Olsson, Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden) Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an e...

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