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

Palestine solidarity·Reviews and Culture

Review: NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

By Eílís Gallagher NAZA is an acronym used by the IDF, derived from the Hebrew phrase nezek agavi, meaning “collateral damage”. It refers to calculations made using Artificial Intelligence to discern the number of civilian casualties, i.e. Palestinian lives that will be

Oct 27, 2026

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Turkey / Syria / Kurdistan earthquakes: Horrific death toll – fate has nothing to do with it

By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative Multi-storey buildings standing next to pulverized ones. A father holding his dead daughter’s hand, as her body, still lying on her mattress, is stuck in between layers of concrete. Small children in the cold rain crying

Feb 12, 2023

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Review: A Road Map for the US-China Cold War

Book review: Danger Zone — The Coming Conflict with China by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley offers a very scary road map for US victory in the new imperialist Cold War. Review by Adam N Lee chinaworker.info Brands and Beckley, specialists in

Feb 9, 2023

Earthquake hits Turkey, Syria & Kurdistan: Thousands killed, construction companies profit

By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative The scenes of the lives shattered by yesterday’s earthquakes in Turkey, Syria and Kurdistan are painful to watch. I was in Turkey in the summer of 1999, just 40km away from the epicenter of the last

Feb 8, 2023

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Peru: La Toma de Lima uprising threatens coup-Government

By Darragh O’Dwyer The historic class confrontation sweeping Peru has entered its 7th week. On one side stands the Peruvian oligarchy and their loyal servants in the form of the deeply unpopular coup government. On the other, are the politically awakened workers,

Feb 4, 2023

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France: Millions of workers strike & protest against attack on pensions

By Arno, a member of Left Socialist Party, our sister organisation in Belgium As announced during the presidential campaign, the Macron government has launched its pension reform. To quote the programme, “raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, and a number

Feb 2, 2023

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US socialists say: “Tyre Nichols’ murder: We need mass protests to end racist policing”

By Socialist Alternative Black Caucus, Socialist Alternative is our sister organisation in the US This evening, the Memphis Police Department released a four-part video of the killing of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers. Nichols was pulled over in a traffic

Jan 28, 2023

Palestine solidarity·World News

Israel / Palestine: New hard-right government escalates politics of hate

By James McCabe In 2021, the New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report titled Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution. Historically, US-based NGOs have steered wide of exposing the full extent of the day-to-day violence and

Jan 25, 2023

LGBTQ·World News

Britain: Trans rights in Scotland passed and blocked

By Morgan Shanless For more developed analysis of this issue see this article by our sister organisiation in Scotland, England & Wales. Last December, the Scottish parliament passed much needed reforms to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, affording trans people a small

Jan 24, 2023

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Drought in Somalia brings devastation

By Finn McKenna Somalia is currently experiencing its worst drought in four decades. According to NASA, the Horn of Africa is suffering its worst drought ever. Somalia has a population of 17 million and just under half are suffering food shortages, with

Jan 23, 2023

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US: “Why I’m Not Running Again for City Council” by Kshama Sawant

By Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and member of Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) Editor’s note: This article was originally published by The Stranger. This is now the tenth year I’ve had the honor to serve as an elected representative of

Jan 22, 2023

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