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Covid 19: Close the schools or keep them open – the worst of all worlds!

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...

UK: Education workers show trade union action gets results. We need real opposition.

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...

Belarus: Analysing the Belarusian revolution and the tasks of socialists

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...

Brexit: A deal without winners

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 ...

Important Lessons from the Mass Democracy Struggle in Thailand in 2020

This uprising requires an organized democratic structure, connect with working people, and build a new struggle-based left-wing party. Qiu Qing Socialist Action Regardless of subsequent developments, mass demonstrations in Thailand have forever chan...

Scandal in international institutions: sex for jobs, food, land

How neo-colonial capitalism underscores abuse by imperialist institutions. Rose Lichtenstein Workers and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has featured heavily on our radars lately, often painted in a posit...

Argentina: Abortion legalised! A triumph for the ‘Green Tide’ movement

Now we need organization and socialist feminism! Marcos Ariel (ISA supporter in Argentina) In a historic day, the morning of December 30 and after 12 hours of debate, the archaic Argentine Senate approved the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy A...

US: Kshama solidarity campaign – fighting back against right-wing recall

Despite the enormous resources of the right-wing and big business, we must remember what we can win when we get organized. Bia Lacombe, Socialist Alternative (ISA US) Big business and the right wing are furious about the impact of socialist politic...

Covid vaccines: Welcome developments but profiteering must be opposed

The vaccine should be free to all on the basis of need, risk of exposure, and risk of serious illness, not on ability to pay. Keishia Taylor, Socialist Party (ISA Ireland) Ten months after the novel coronavirus erupted around the world, after 58 ...

Hong Kong mass arrests – Xi Jinping strikes while Western powers are in disarray

Mass arrests of democratic opposition under China’s national security law ISA reporters in Hong Kong The latest sweeping crackdown by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) in Hong Kong effectively bans political opposition in the city. The fragile ‘democr...

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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain—Lessons for Fighting the Far Right Today

Marcus Kollbrunner, Liberdade Socialismo e Revolucao (ISA in Brazil) This July we commemorate the 90th anniversary of the revolutionary workers’ u...

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