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Brazil: Stop the coup in the streets! Defeat Bolsonaro and build a socialist alternative

By Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil) Brazil sinks into a historic crisis. Bolsonaro’s brazen attitude and Paulo Guedes’ ravings about the economic situation cannot hide the harsh reality. We have 33 million Brazilians going hungry, in addition to another 90

Aug 18, 2022

Featured Articles·Socialist Feminism·Theory & History

The CWI & socialist feminism – redressing a checkered history

Laura Fitzgerald explores the evolution of the socialist feminist work of the Socialist Party and the international organisation to which we belong, including assessing the roots of an ignominious split away by a minority in a leadership position in 2019, on account

Aug 18, 2022

World News

Seattle becomes first abortion sanctuary city: How working people & socialists Won

By Bia Lacombe, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Last month, thousands of local activists and young people in Seattle won a landmark victory in the abortion rights struggle — led by the office of socialist City Councilmember Kshama

Aug 16, 2022

Uncategorized·World News

China: Mortgage revolt shakes government

By chinaworker.info China is being shaken by a new resistance movement. Tens of thousands of mortgage rebels have announced they will no longer pay back their housing loans for unfinished apartments they cannot live in. Announced on social media just a few

Aug 15, 2022

News & Analysis

Back-to-school costs – another heavy burden for working-class people

By Conor Burke The cost of kids returning to school is weighing heavy on many parents, especially this year as the cost of living crisis intensifies the struggles that many parents face annually just to ensure their kids get an education. On

Aug 15, 2022

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

RFU must reverse its shameful decision to ban trans women athletes

By Aoife Coppinger On 10 August, the IRFU announced that it is changing its Gender Participation Policy, meaning that trans women will no longer be allowed to play contact rugby in the female category. This follows a decision by World Rugby in

Aug 14, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Workplace News

Amazon’s regime of exploitation comes to Dublin: Unionise and organise now!

By Finn McKenna This week brings the arrival of multinational e-commerce giant Amazon to Baldonnell Business Park in Dublin. The opening of this facility has already been met with comment by the trade union movement in Ireland. This is an anti-worker company

Aug 12, 2022

World News

Britain: Amazon workers strike back against measly pay offer

A wave of industrial action, much of it unofficial, is sweeping Amazon fulfilment centres across Britain. Workers at LCY2 centre in Essex staged a sit-down strike over a measly 35p pay rise and this is spreading, with over 100 walking out in

Aug 11, 2022

Theory & History·Uncategorized

Imperialism and war: The outgrowth of global capitalist competition

War in Ukraine and the growing geo-political rivalry between China and the United States, which is tantamount to a new cold war between the two powers, are illustrative of the effect of imperialism on the world today. Finn McKenna reviews the Marxist

Aug 10, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Sabina Higgins runs afoul of establishment war-mongers

By Michael O’Brien A letter by Sabina Higgins, wife of President Higgins, to The Irish Times on 27 July, concerning the war in Ukraine, has been seized upon for attack by various Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians and other pro-capitalist establishment

Aug 9, 2022

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