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Oil prices collapse

The spectre of deflation Tony Wilsdon, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA) The collapse in oil prices in the second quarter of 2020 will be a further accelerator of the deepening world economic depression. The New York Times writes: “Just a few month...

Belarus – Endgame being played out

Today strikes have continued to spread. The coming days will decide the question one way or another. Rob Jones, Socialist Alternative (ISA Russia) Today strikes have continued to spread. Lukashenko speaking at a Minsk factory stated that “We have...

Capitalism rushes to re-open as pandemic grows

The new blame game Bill Hopwood, Socialist Alternative (ISA Canada) Around the world, countries are lifting the restrictions that were introduced to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. People are being allowed to leave their homes, and workplaces, caf...

US: Socialists and the state – how to end racist policing

The role of police and how real change can be won Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA) The nature of policing in the United States is inseparable from the violent, racist history of capitalism in this country. From slave patrols; to Bull...

EU in crisis and COVID-19

The €540 billion fund is not the ‘game changer’ that the headlines suggested Finghín Kelly, Socialist Party (ISA Ireland) Last week saw a major clash between eurozone finance ministers with a 16 meeting ending in a deadlock before a face-saving m...

The US-China Cold War: Towards a bipolar global economy

The US-China Cold War is escalating. We stand for solidarity between workers and oppressed, east and west, to rid the world of capitalism and imperialism. Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info “There’s no floor under the U.S.-China relationship. We keep...

US: Trump administration bans Chinese-owned TikTok

US-China tech war escalating Zhou Yi, chinaworker.info (ISA China) On 31 July, President Trump announced that TikTok (the overseas version of the Chinese video-sharing app Douyin) will be banned nationwide in the US, and the relevant executive or...

Hong Kong: Third wave of pandemic and counter-revolutionary repression

Government uses new Covid-19 outbreak as pretext to cancel Legco elections Jo Yan, Socialist Action The passage of the draconian Hong Kong National Security Law means the counter-revolutionary suppression by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has offic...

Capitalism and the Chinese state

How was capitalism restored in China? This article was first published in 2015 in the Greek magazine Marxist Thought. It is now published in English for the first time. Vincent Kolo In March, China’s ornamental ‘parliament’ the National People’s C...

Hong Kong national security law – Xi Jinping’s “nuclear option”

The imposition of the new national security law in Hong Kong by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) is a massive blow to democratic and political rights Per-Ake Westerlund and Vincent Kolo The effect of the Chinese regime’s new law is similar to a milit...

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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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