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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

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TikTok and the new Cold War

By Anne Liu TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew came out on top after a March 23 Congressional hearing in which U.S. lawmakers demonstrated their zeal to “win” the U.S.-China Cold War and their embarrassing incompetence at handling tech-related matters altogether. This was

Apr 25, 2023

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Sudan: Counter-revolutionary forces fall out

By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative (the international movement to which we are the Irish section of) Since the early morning of Saturday, 15 April, the chiefs of the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have been waging

Apr 25, 2023

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France: Workers revolt against the “President of the Rich”

By Myriam Poizat An explosive revolt in France began on 19 January 2023. The French government announced its proposal to raise the pension age from 62 to 64, and with that hundreds of thousands of working-class people took to the streets in

Apr 11, 2023

Socialist Feminism·World News

Switzerland: Solidarity with the feminist strike 14 June 2023

First published on rosainternational.org Four years after the historic 500,000 strong feminist strike on the 14th of June 2019, women, workers, LGBTQ+ and young people prepare to take to the streets again on the same date this year, and participate in strike

Apr 10, 2023

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United States: Trump indicted – what now?

By Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (ISA in US) Socialists certainly won’t shed tears if Trump sees the inside of a prison cell. Trump, along with other billionaires and presidents (from both parties), should be tried for his countless crimes against humanity. Trump

Apr 4, 2023

Anti-racism·LGBTQ·Socialist Feminism·World News

Australia: Trans rights under attack – fight the far-right bigotry of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull

By David Elliott, International Socialist Alternative in Australia In Melbourne on the 18 March, people calling for trans rights protested the far-right speaker Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, a.k.a. Posie Parker. Keen-Minshull has been on a speaking tour holding small rallies around Australia, campaigning against

Mar 31, 2023

News & Analysis·World News

Big Tech in turmoil: Why capitalism’s main engine of growth is stuttering

By Keishia Taylor and Eddie McCabe The tech sector is in turmoil – facing its worst crisis since the dot-com bubble burst in the late 1990s. Stock prices are fluctuating wildly, profits are being squeezed, and hundreds of thousands of workers have

Mar 29, 2023

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Hyper exploitation and profiteering – the reality of “fast fashion”

By Saana Taussi ’Fast-fashion’ is a form of clothing production which is based on releasing the highest number of clothing collections each year as possible, at the lowest price possible. This business model became popularised since the 1980s and practically all affordable, mass-producing

Mar 28, 2023

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General Strike against Netanyahu and far-right amid historic political crisis

By Shahar Ben Horin & Yasha Marmer, Socialist Struggle (our sister organisation in Israel/Palestine) Since the first week of January, Israeli capitalism has been gripped by an escalating historic political crisis, involving an unprecedented mass movement against the ‘judicial coup’, along with

Mar 27, 2023

Socialist Feminism·Uncategorized·World News

“Our Resistance is Not Made of Sand” – report from ROSA international conference

By Elin Gaufin, ISA International Women’s Bureau The first international ROSA conference Women Life Freedom took place on 18 and 19 March, 2023. 200 participants from 19 countries had gathered in the meeting room in Vienna and zoomed in from another 11

Mar 27, 2023

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