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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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French pension fight continues. Strike down Macron and austerity policies!

Leaflet by Alternative Socialiste Internationale (our sister organisation in France) Today, France has been on strike with massive demonstrations across the country. According to the CGT trade union there are 700,000 on the streets of Paris alone. In Marseille there are 300.000,

Mar 24, 2023

Socialist Feminism·World News

“Give us bread, but give us roses too” — Over 200 attend ROSA International Socialist Feminist Conference, Vienna

By Isidora Duran Stewart (ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement, Ireland) In the wake of International Women’s Day 2023 which saw women, queer people and their siblings in struggle in the labour movement take to the streets globally, over 200 socialist feminists from every

Mar 22, 2023

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SVB collapse detonates financial crisis

By Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank last week has opened up a significant financial crisis for U.S. capitalism which now appears to be spreading to Europe. It is too

Mar 21, 2023

Socialist Feminism·World News

US: Mifepristone faces ban in latest attack on abortion rights

By S. Rodriguez This week, the right-wing offensive on abortion rights reached new heights in the US, as a Texas Court granted a hearing to far-right, anti-choice coalition seeking to challenge federal approval of Mifepristone – a medication listed on the World

Mar 17, 2023

Anti-war·World News

New Cold War: Is Taiwan the next Ukraine?

Chinaworker.info, ISA in China, Hong & Taiwan As the US-China inter-imperialist conflict escalates, Taiwan is its most dangerous flashpoint. A Taiwan war could be even more catastrophic than the war in Ukraine, drawing in the US, Japan, Australia, several NATO armies, and

Mar 16, 2023

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Silicon Valley Bank collapses – a new global banking crisis?

Editorial from Offensiv, paper of Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (our sister organisation in Sweden) The threat of a banking crisis hovers over the world economy after the crash of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the second largest banking collapse in US history. Many inflated markets

Mar 14, 2023

Socialist Feminism·World News

IWD 2023 ISA statement: Fight the right-wing backlash with socialist feminism

Statement from International Socialist Alternative, the international revolutionary movement that the Socialist Party in Ireland is a part of. International Women’s Day (IWD) 2023 approaches as the wave of women leading movements and struggling against oppression and capitalist exploitation continues to develop,

Mar 7, 2023

Anti-racism·Featured Articles·Socialist Feminism·World News

The same struggle – unite against gender violence, racism and the far-right

By Laura Fitzgerald The femicide of 23 year-old teacher Ashling Murphy on 12 January 2022, cutting a young life callously and brutally short, provoked a mass response. In a moment replete with profound sadness, anger and solidarity: anger at the social ill

Mar 2, 2023

World News

Pogroms and massacres: Israeli State ratchets up the oppression of Palestinians

Editorial from the latest issues of The Socialist On 26 February, an estimated 400 Israeli colonial settlers launched a brutal raid on the town of Huwara, in the Occupied West Bank. Armed with guns, clubs, iron chains and fuel containers, they mounted

Mar 2, 2023

World News

United State: Seattle’s working people won the nation’s first ban on caste discrimination

Article by Seattle City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant. Originally published in the Nation. Standing in the Seattle City Council chambers on February 21, an Indian-American tech worker named Naresh recalled the caste discrimination he has faced beginning at age

Mar 1, 2023

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