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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...

China: ‘Zero COVID’: Xi Jinping’s new era of totalitarian control

China’s COVID outbreak of 2022 has become a major economic and humanitarian crisis Dikang, chinaworker.info “Five more years!” This was the bombshell message from the CCP’s top official in Beijing at the end of June. Cai Qi is the CCP’s secretary i...

China: The Deepest Crisis for 30 Years

This is an abridged version of an article from the upcoming issue (number 8) of Socialist World, the political and theoretical journal of International Socialist Alternative. Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info A succession of economic and political dis...

Vilification of Amber Heard should be a concern of all who oppose gender-based violence

Steph Lacey, ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement, Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland) (This article was first published on 20 May 2022) From #MeToo, to Ni Una Menos, to the mass outpouring of grief and anger at femicides from Sarah Everard to Sabine Ness...

World’s richest man: The complete charlatan that is Elon Musk

Pádraig O’Flynn, Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland) (This article was first published on 14 May 2022) The news that the world’s richest man is to take control of his favourite social media network for an obscene $44 billion (€42bn) has reopened debat...

Killing of Journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh: Fell in the Struggle to Expose the Reality of the Occupatio...

Al Jazeera journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh was shot to death during a military raid at the Jenin refugee camp on 11 May, and during her funeral march in East Jerusalem her casket was almost dropped due to the actions of Israeli police. Ariel Gottlieb, ...

Hong Kong: Counter-revolution gets a new face

John Lee “elected” Chief Executive to continue in Carrie Lam’s bloody footsteps The so-called election of Hong Kong’s new Chief Executive ended without any surprises on 8 May. As expected, John Lee Ka-chiu, Beijing’s lone candidate, was elected by t...

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The War on Iran Is an Environmental Disaster

May 26, 2026 Tom Costello, Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland   The devastation caused by US i...

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