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The 1925-27 Chinese Revolution

chinaworker.info commemorates 1925-27: This year we are commemorating 100 years since the Second Chinese Revolution 1925-27. This was one of the most remarkable and significant waves of mass struggle ever seen. In the year 1925 the working class of S...

United States: Undefeated – Lessons from 10 years of a socialist in office

Long before Bernie Sanders and AOC were household names, Kshama Sawant was elected as the first open socialist in Seattle in nearly a century. Kshama has remained the lone socialist on the City Council for the past ten years — with which she and Seat...

United States: Inflation now, recession soon – Capitalists want us to pay for their crisis

Stephen Edwards, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) (This article was first published on 7 July 2022) Working people in the U.S. are facing the worst inflation in 40 years. Gas is at $6 a gallon in many places; groceries are up by mor...

Sri Lanka: Mass storming of Presidential Palace forces Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of power

The revolution continues, the whole system has to go! Serge Jordan, ISA (This article was first published on 10 July 2022) Fast-paced events in crisis-ridden Sri Lanka have taken yet a new turn today, Saturday 9 July, as hundreds of thousands of p...

Covid & gender inequality: The impact of the pandemic on women

Women experience the most brutal aspects of capitalism, making them the most hardened and determined fighters against this system Emma Quinn, Socialist Party (ISA Ireland) Health and childcare workers, cleaners, teachers, retail and hospital...

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, ...

Mass movement against racism sweeps the US

Our project must be to create a multi-racial movement of the working class to put an end to the system of capitalism Keely Mullen (Socialist Alternative, USA) On the day of George Floyd’s death, we had been on lockdown for more than two and a hal...

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: Tiananmen Square movement of 1989 reverberates today

In 1989, Chinese students and workers shook the world Joshua Koritz, Socialist Alternative (US) Here we are publishing an article from our US comrades of Socialist Alternative looking back on the mass democracy struggle in China in 1989.&n...

Hong Kong: Protest new attacks on refugees

Need for united struggle by local and foreign-born workers against an unjust system Jen Left   Socialist Action Carrie Lam’s government has unveiled new attacks on asylum seekers. This is a deliberate attempt to stir up racism. The government w...

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March 5 School Strike Against Conscription in Germany: We Won’t Fight Your Wars!

March 4, 2026. Mika Wagner, SAV (ISA in Germany) On December 5, 55,000 students went on strike against the new military service law. The next strike ...

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