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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...

Sri Lanka: Mass storming of Presidential Palace forces Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of power

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...

Britain: Capitalist crisis – End of the line for Boris Johnson

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...

Britain: Rail strikes — Union wins round one

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 ...

China: Mortgage revolt shakes government

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...

Socialists and the US-China Cold War

Rather than hitting the pause button on the imperialist US-China Cold War, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fast fowarded processes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have exper...

China: End capitalism and dictatorship to save the planet

The Chinese dictatorship is not the “green superpower” it wants us to believe Hong Liuxing, chinaworker.info Capitalist governments around the world boast they are making progress in the fight against climate change. But war, deglobalization and ev...

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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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