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Solidarity with refugees – demand homes & services for all

By Jonathan Diebold Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine has unleashed untold hardship on the country’s 44 million people. It has also created Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II and is the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world today. Over

Apr 28, 2022

News & Analysis·Workplace News

P&O Ferries: Nationalise and save jobs

By Michael O’Brien The sacking last month, by video message, of 800 UK-based employees of P&O Ferries has unleashed a wave of anger among trade unionists and workers generally. The objective of the company is to replace its former workforce with agency

Apr 27, 2022

Socialist Feminism·Uncategorized·World News

Glasgow Equal Pay victory against SNP’s sexist hypocrisy

By Daisy Crump and Paul Moorhouse, Socialist Alternative in Scotland Glasgow City Council’s public relations team spent the first week of March flooding social media with posts telling us that ‘The Glasgow Family is once again supporting International Women’s Day (IWD)… the

Apr 26, 2022

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: Why do socialists see the working class as the force for change?

By Harper Cleves “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism” – Fredric Jameson This quote rings true because capitalism today feels almost omnipotent – it dominates the globe

Apr 25, 2022

Uncategorized·World News

Amazon’s union busting at sorting centre in the US

By Chris Gray, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) Following the historic union victory at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) is gearing up for the next election at LDJ5, the 1,500 worker sort center

Apr 24, 2022

Theory & History

Cryptocurrencies & NFTs – not the democratizsation of finance

Technological advancement can be used to make the lives of working people better, but harnessed by the capitalist class will instead be used to exploit the working class one way or another to make more profits. By Bryce Callaway, Socialist Alternative (ISA

Apr 23, 2022

News & Analysis·The North

North: Springtime of discontent – co-ordinated action can win real pay rises

Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party in the North “SPRINGTIME OF DISCONTENT” was the headline carried by the Belfast Newsletter on 1 April 2022. An apt description of the current wave of industrial unrest and a warning to the

Apr 22, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·The North

Northern Assembly elections: We need a socialist alternative to sectarian division

By Daniel Waldron THE OVERARCHING nature of the Assembly election on 5 May will, unfortunately, be deeply sectarian. Sinn Féin will appeal to Catholic voters to return them as the largest party, which they pose as a step towards securing a border

Apr 19, 2022

Reviews and Culture·Uncategorized

Book Review: Invisible China – How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

By Vincent Kolo, Chinaworker.info “Why would I talk to my baby?” a young mother in rural China giggled at the question. “She can’t talk back!” Scott Rozelle, who has written this book together with Natalie Hell, has spent more than 30 years

Apr 18, 2022

World News

Another victory for Viktor Orbán — What is going on in Hungary?

By Till Ruster, Sozialistische LinksPartei (our sister organisation in Austria) To state the obvious: in a country with a notoriously authoritarian head of government, who has been in power since 2010, no election campaign is “fair”, even by bourgeois standards. The main opposition

Apr 17, 2022

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