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Indonesia Cracks Down on West Papuan Protest Movement

It has a long history of brutally suppressing dissent. This violent repression is carried out in the service of capitalism By David Elliott, Socialist Action (ISA in Australia) In August and September last year, thousands of Papuans demonstrated ac...

Coronavirus and capitalism: a lethal mix

Capitalist governments everywhere are exacerbating the crisis and damaging public health systems Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The novel coronavirus which causes the disease Covid-19 is still spreading rapidly, with 90,000 confirmed cases and over...

Coronavirus: fighting the pandemic is a class issue

The COVID-19 outbreak is close to becoming a global pandemic – the WHO so far refuses to make this call, but many experts think that point has already been reached chinaworker.info Global capitalism is staring at a stock market meltdown (the onl...

Ireland: An Historic Election

How can real change be delivered? Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland) statement General Election 2020 was historic, the combined vote of the two main capitalist parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael went below 50%. 2016 was the first, when it dipped just ...

Putin Launches a Creeping Constitutional Coup

Troubled times ahead Rob Jones Sotsialisticheskoe Soprotivleniye (CWI in Russia) The CWI has since been renamed International Socialist Alternative (ISA)   It appears to have come as a complete shock even to government ministers, when towards the e...

China’s dictatorship ignites massive coronavirus backlash

Mismanagement of epidemic plunges Xi Jinping’s regime into historic crisis Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info “They are lying, we know they are lying. They also know that we know they are lying, and yet they are still lying.” This online comment from a r...

CWI changes its name to International Socialist Alternative (ISA)

New website of International Socialist Alternative (ISA - formerly the CWI) Welcome to internationalsocialist.net, the new website of International Socialist Alternative (formerly the Committee for a Workers' International). It will provide regular,...

Coronavirus epidemic – crisis deepens in China and Hong Kong

Workers need to act: build unions / epidemic action committees in every workplace The following text is from a leaflet issued by Socialist Action (CWI Majority in Hong Kong) as health sector workers and activists in the new trade union groups...

‘Phase one’ trade deal doesn’t end the US-China trade war

Confrontation between the two biggest powers set to escalate Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The ‘phase one’ trade agreement signed by the US and China on 15 January does not mark the end of their almost two-year trade war. Even as...

Australia’s bushfire catastrophe – a socialist view

Australia shows the climate disaster is already happening By Jeremy Trott, Socialist Action (CWI in Australia) additional reporting by Adam N Lee The scale of this year’s bushfires is unprecedented, affecting every state on the continent. ...

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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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