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New cold war: Growing calls to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics

Why is the International Olympic Committee (IOC) so closely allied with China’s dictatorship? This is an issue more and more people are asking in the light of tennis player Peng Shuai’s disappearance and is the background to the current global debate about an Olympic boycott in February.

India: Heroic farmers movement wins concessions from right-wing Modi government

After nearly a year long protest by farmers, their largest mobilization in India in over half a century, the right-wing authoritarian government of Modi has finally caved and given in to the demands of the farmers

Iran: Teachers’ strikes and protests show the way forward

The Iranian regime is in an unstable situation, they fear a new wave of generalized protests which is why they have increased repression in the last months. Nina Mo, Socialist Left Party (ISA in Austria) On 23 December 2021, a national day of actio...

Poland: Not one more!

Solidarity and united struggle against the PiS government for the right to choose. Rosa Polska, Alternatywa Socjalistyczna (ISA in Poland) (The article was first published on 25 November 2021) In September, a 30-year-old Polish woman, Iza, died as...

Where is the recovery going?

The spectre of inflation is threatening a new crisis Eric Byl, ISA International Executive (The article was first published in August 2021) here is much to say about the so-called “post-pandemic” economic rebound. The figures look impressive, but ...

Right-wing recall defeated: How Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative won (again!)

If a small revolutionary socialist organization can beat the wealthiest corporations in the world here in Seattle again and again, you can be sure that the organized power of the wider working class can change society.

Climate change: The end of growth? The capitalist economy & ecological crisis

The question of economic growth and its relation to the climate crisis is a subject of increasing discussion. Here we offer a Marxist view on this critical issue for the environmental movement.

Hong Kong: Record low turnout in Beijing’s fake election

The turnout on 19 December was an extremely low 30.2 percent This is far below the level that any government could hide or photoshop as a “success”. For Hong Kong’s rulers – the CCP – this is another catastrophic PR fiasco. It called a “patriots only...

Hong Kong: Beijing’s election farce won’t end the crisis

“Government credibility is high, but voter turnout will be low” – says Carrie Lam Zuo Ren, Socialist Action The first Legislative Council (Legco) elections since Beijing’s “makeover” will be held on December 19. The Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has i...

Climate crisis: International socialists mobilize in Glasgow for COP26 protests

‘Monumental failure’, ‘Empty words, no action’ and ’Utter betrayal’ are just some of the words used to describe the outcome of COP26. To save the climate capitalism needs to be ended. ISA was in Glasgow to build an organisation capable of organising a change to a socialist world.

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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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