Socialism
Features
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
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...
Features
Keynesianism and the crisis of capitalism
Is the problem neoliberalism or capitalism?
George Martin Fell Brown and Tony Gong, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA)
The current economic crisis may have been triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, but its roots lie in a deeper crisis of capital...
International
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...
China
China: Anniversary of June 4 Tiananmen massacre
The Beijing massacre of 1989 crushed the democracy movement and cemented the Chinese regime’s embrace of capitalism
Dikang, chinaworker.info
June 4 marks the 31st anniversary of the gruesome massacre in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)...
China
Hong Kong: Power grab by Xi Jinping to smash democratic rights
Beijing’s enactment of a new national security law for Hong Kong is the point of no return
Dikang, chinaworker.info
Events in Hong Kong have reached the point of no return. The Chinese dictatorship’s decision, from the platform of its pseudo-parlia...
International
1st May – International Workers’ Day: Capitalism is the Virus: Socialism is the Only Cure
Five Reasons To Fight for a Socialist World in 2020 • Five reasons to join the ISA
May Day statement International Socialist Alternative
May Day – International Workers’ Day this year has a special significance at a time when the world is in the g...
Features
Socialists and the democratic struggle
Socialists
fight for all, even limited democratic advances, but explain the need to
overthrow capitalism
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The following is a reprint from September 2010 of our reply to criticisms on social media from a sectar...
China
70 years since the Chinese revolution
Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party
This article by Vincent Kolo was first published on chinaworker.info in October 2009, on the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Re...
News
Rebuild Taiwan’s LGBT movement – fight back against patriarchal capitalism
The failure of Taiwan’s pro-LGBT referendum does not represent the end of the marriage equality and LGBT movement – we need to rebuild a fighting LGBT movement against further attacks
Luka,
International Socialist Forward (CWI in Taiwan)
T...
Latest News
Explainer: How Marxists see China’s property crash
By Dikang, chinaworker.info
(This article was written in November 2022)
China’s property market is now in its second year of deep s...
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