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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

Environment·World News

Latin America: Rise in violence on the front lines of environmental struggle

By Pedro Meade and Ana Vitoria, Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (our sister organisation in Brazil) As we are seeing, climate crises are intensifying. Wildfires of unprecedented proportions are raging in Canada, there are historic droughts in Argentina, and increasingly severe storms are

Aug 6, 2023

Environment·World News

Climate change shows that now more than ever — capitalism must go

Isidora Durán Stewart Capitalism’s total inaction on the climate crisis is leading to devastating effects globally. This summer saw many parts of the world plunge into an extreme heatwave, with preliminary data showing that the first week of July 2023 was the

Aug 5, 2023

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Latin America & the new Cold War: Chinese Imperialism is no ally of the working Class and oppressed

By André Ferrari — Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução and Mauro Espinola, Alternativa Socialista From vaccine diplomacy, starting with the shipment of Sinovac vaccines in 2021, to the recent snub to Lula da Silva’s attempt to revive Mercosur through negotiations with the Lacalle

Aug 2, 2023

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Elections in Spanish State: Stalemate and polarisation

By John Hird Around the world, the socialist movement will be asking, given the social conditions in the Spanish state, with 2.8 million in absolute poverty, sky-rocketing energy and food prices and many workers and communities in struggle, not to mention the

Jul 28, 2023

Environment·Featured Articles·World News

In hot water: The devastating impact of rising ocean temperatures

By Oisin Hill “The ocean is hotter than ever, what happens next?,” begins a news article published in May of this year by Nature, the world’s leading scientific journal. 2023 has seen the ocean’s surface temperature rise to its highest since records

Jul 25, 2023

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United States: Actors join writers on strike against greedy studios

By David Rhoades, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) On July 13, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), a union of 160,000 film and TV performers, joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA)

Jul 23, 2023

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Brazil: Battleground on Yanomami Territory

By Ana Vitória and Pedro Meade The Indigenous Territory (IT) of the Yanomami has been turned into a battle ground. The consequences of the genocidal policies of the Bolsonaro misgovernment have been devastating, placing the Yanomami in a situation of extreme violence,

Jul 8, 2023

France: Justice Pour Nahel — It was murder, yet again!

Statement by International Socialist Alternative — our sister organisation in France Let’s turn our anger into a mass movement in our neighbourhoods and workplaces! The racist murder of young Nahel by a police officer in Nanterre (economically deprived suburb of Paris) on

Jul 5, 2023

Environment·World News

Environment: War causes untold damage to the environment

By Walter Chambers, International Socialist Alternative The immediate and horrific humanitarian costs of the war in Ukraine are measured in the number of fatalities and wounded caused by the fighting and continuous bomb attacks on Ukraine’s cities, as well as in the

Jul 2, 2023

Anti-racism·World News

Missing in the Mediterranean – refugees & the racist policies of Fortress Europe

By Jonathan Diebold Vast resources were expended in the Atlantic in the wake of the disappearance of five wealthy tourists whose submersible vanished on the way to the Titanic, dominating headlines over days, while over a hundred times as many are still

Jun 24, 2023

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