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Solidarity Against Repression in China & Hong Kong; Free ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung! ISA reporters Since the Hong Kong mass struggles in 2019, the situation has changed completely. The dictatorship of Xi Jinping and the misnamed Communist Pa...

The SNP’s commanding lead in the polls however does not reflect any real ability to do what it takes to win independence in the face of Tory obduracy, or to deliver on the issues which Scottish workers look to independence to resolve. Paul Moorhou...

Chinese regime’s propaganda goes into overdrive as Xi positions himself for unprecedented third term This article is from Socialist Alternative, the political magazine of the Socialist Party (ISA) in Ireland. By Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info There i...

The NPC/CPPCC sessions are great news for billionaires – bad news for workers and Hong Kong Vincent Kolo. chinaworker.info China’s “twin sessions” or Lianghui, the annual gatherings of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) an...

March 8 is International Women’s Day, when across the world the struggle for women’s rights is stepped up Joint statement by International Socialist Alternative and ROSA International While 2019 was a year of massive revolt, in which women and p...

We must oppose the poison of great power nationalism and chauvinism. This is used by the ruling class to distract and divide workersTom Crean, Socialist Alternative (ISA in US) The conflict between a rising Chinese state capitalism and waning U.S. c...

Plugging the holes is not enough, it’s time for a revolution in education Sonja Grusch, Sozialistische LinksPartei — ISA Austria The question of whether to “keep schools open” or “to close schools” is a heated and polarized debate. Governments ha...

Boris Johnson’s announcement that schools will close until February half term is yet another U-turn from this shambolic Tory government — one which has been forced by the huge pressure from below by education workers. Socialist Alternative members...

The present stage and the tasks of socialists. Since 10 August 2020, heroic mass protests have shaken Belarus, refusing to succumb to the open terror used by the regime, police violence and mass arrests. What is now the way forward? Supratsiwlenin...

There is no euphoria among either big business or workers, but rather a relief that the long, tiresome process is over, and — coinciding with the Covid-19 crisis — a stronger-than-ever sense of Tory incompetence Sarah Wrack, Socialist Alternative ...