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News from around the world by authors from the Socialist Party and co-thinkers internationally

Europe’s scorching heatwave – capitalist climate crisis intensifies

By Jake O’Brien “This heatwave is a dress rehearsal… they are getting more frequent, stronger and lasting longer. Every summer we fail to prepare for them is a summer we pay for in lives.” These are the words of Dr. Hans Henri

Jul 21, 2026

European Union’s racist refugee policy: Mass death on the Mediterranean

In the Tunisian port city of Sfax, tens of thousands of migrants from across the African continent exist in a state of suspension, writes Harper Cleves. Often living in makeshift migrant encampments in parks and streets, they hope to be able to

Sep 26, 2023

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Billionaire Tim Gurner’s contempt for workers: A case of saying “the quiet part loud”

By Robert Cosgrave Multi-millionaire Australian property developer Tim Gurner – whose company has a portfolio of over $6 billion and who some may remember for blaming the inability of millennials to get a house on their penchant for avocado toast – is

Sep 18, 2023

Featured Articles·Socialist Feminism·World News

Woman Life Freedom — The struggle continues! Remember Jina Amini

One year has passed since the brutal killing of Jina Amini in the hands of the ‘morality police’ that sparked one of the most radical and far-reaching protest waves in Iran’s history against violence, oppression & dictatorship. With women and youth at

Sep 16, 2023

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Chinese economy in the grip of ‘Japanification’

Editorial from issue 71 Socialist《社会主义者》magazine, the magazine of ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan China’s economic crisis entered a new more dangerous phase in August. Despite a tightening government clampdown on negative news, the overall picture is darkening week by week

Sep 13, 2023

Socialist Feminism·World News

Abortion decriminalised in Mexico: For the right to choose. The struggle must go on

Statement by Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in Mexico On 6 September, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation granted the appeal that Information Group for Chosen Reproduction (GIRE), a human rights organisation focused on reproductive rights,

Sep 9, 2023

World News

Pakistan: Exorbitant power bills trigger countrywide protests

By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative In recent weeks, Pakistan has been swept by mass protests, as people across the country have expressed their anger over the hikes in electricity bills enforced by the unelected caretaker government led by Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar. What

Sep 8, 2023

Imperialism in West Africa: Oppose war and capitalism!

By Chris Stewart Over the past three years a wave of military coups has hit the Sahel, the region where the southern boundary of the Sahara gives way to sub-Saharan Africa. These coups have occurred in former colonies of France such as

Sep 7, 2023

Anti-war·World News

New Cold War: US Cold War interests trump rights of Ukraine

U.S. Secretly Prepares to Accept Russian Annexation of Ukrainian Regions By Walter Chambers, International Socialist Alternative As a further stage in the New Cold War opens up with the threat of new war in Africa after the coup in Niger, new information

Aug 31, 2023

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Niger Military Coup: Workers everywhere must oppose invasion

By Aj. Dagga Tolar, Movement for a Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in Nigeria) We say: *No to war or any military invasion of Niger. *No Nigerian soldier needs to go die to defend a bourgeois democracy that impoverishes and oppresses the

Aug 20, 2023

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Coup in Niger: Oppose the military intervention — let the Nigerien people decide

Ory, Militant CI — our sister organisation in Côte d’Ivoire What seemed like a rumor finally became a certainty. The Nigerien president Mohamed Bazoum was ousted from power by the military. How did we get here and what lessons have been learned

Aug 7, 2023

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