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Capitalism and COVID-19: Why We Need a Planned Economy

weak spots and vulnerabilities built into every joint in the capitalist system. Keely Mullen Socialist Alternative (ISA-the US) Capitalism is set up like a house of cards. Disjointed supply chains, competition for component parts, research a...

China: State repression against left activists escalates

Drop the charges against Chai Xiaoming chinaworker.info (ISA in China) reporters On 14 August, left activist Chai Xiaoming was tried secretly by the Intermediate Court in the eastern city of Nanjing on the charge of “inciting subversion of state po...

US: Drive out Trump and shut down the system!

Take action to stop Trump from stealing the election Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA) In order to drive Trump out of the White House, we need to disrupt “business as usual” with mass civil disobedience, student walkouts, and workp...

US: Why the Left shouldn’t support Joe Biden

With the US Presidential election looming, pressure is mounting to vote for Joe Biden to keep Trump out. Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA) Even the New York Times has carried an editorial headed “Why socialists should support Joe Bid...

US: Trump madness sees Biden take bigger lead but right wing threats to steal election still real

Defeating Trump through mass struggle can be a breakthrough for the left. Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (ISA the US) With less than a month to go until election day, the presidential election has begun to turn in the Democrats’ favor afte...

Iran: Solidarity with workers’ struggles in Iran.

Strike committees throughout the country is needed as the first step for a new revolutionary working class party to overthrow the regime. Nina Mo, Socialist Left Party (ISA Austria) Since the beginning of August there have been major strikes in mor...

US presidential elections: Trump in trouble and Biden in hiding

Workers’ Alternative Urgently Needed. Socialist Alternative, USA Erin Brightwell 2020 is not the election year that anyone expected. Presidential election politics are now utterly intertwined with the global pandemic that has killed nearly 165,00...

Belarus: Lukashenko uses ‘tikhari’ and ‘cosmonauts’ against working people

Independent action by the working class can break the current deadlock.  Rob Jones Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa — ISA in Russia After weeks of stand-off between the mass protesters and the Lukashenko regime, the current deadlock can only be...

Eighty years since Leon Trotsky’s assassination

Arming a New Generation with Revolutionary Method. Lynn Walsh On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal blow with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, an agent sent to Mexico by Stalin’s secret police, the GPU, to murder the exiled revolutionary, ...

Indian and Chinese soldiers die for the economic and geopolitical interests of their ruling classes

The military conflict in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, on the border between China and India has again escalated as the two countries fight for markets. Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party (ISA Austria) On June 15, 20 Indian soldiers and possibl...

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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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