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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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. ...

While we oppose US imperialism’s self-declared “right” to assassinate its opponents, no socialist will shed any tears for Qassem Soleimani Rob Jones, CWI The headline and editorial in the Lebanese pro-Hezbollah newspaper “Al-Akhbar” on Friday read:...

The anti-domestic violence law is more of a tool for the CCP dictatorship to improve its own image and at the same time promote ‘family values’ and ‘social stability’ Zhou Yi, chinaworker.info (International Socialist Alternative in China) In recen...