World News- Page 25

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

World News

China’s mass revolt — Where now?

By Li Yong and Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info At the time of writing, police are massing in Chinese cities in an effort to stamp out the recent protest wave. Protests continue at universities. The coming weekend could see new street protests in cities

Nov 29, 2022

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism·World News

Woman, Life, Freedom: 25 November- International Day for the Elimination of Gender-Based Violence

“Woman, life, freedom” – This is the main slogan the masses in Iran have been shouting on the streets after the brutal killing of 22-year-old Jina (Mahsa) Amini. From Kurdistan to Azerbaijan, from Sistan and Baluchestan to Khuzestan – this movement has

Nov 23, 2022

World News

Qatar World Cup: Football has never been more political

By John Hird — NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing and International Socialist Alternative The oligarchs, dictatorships and dodgy billionaire owners of football clubs, through their well-oiled PR machines, say, ‘keep politics out of sport,’ but football has never been more political. Grassroots fan

Nov 21, 2022

World News

FIFA corruption and the Qatar World Cup

By Jonathan Diebold With an abysmal record on human rights this year’s FIFA World cup yet again takes place under the shadow of controversy. it’s taking place in Qatar, a small yet extremely wealthy country and one of the world’s last remaining

Nov 20, 2022

World News

Iran: Fighting for a revolutionary alternative to the clerical regime

This and other texts have been discussed and written together with activists on the ground and has been translated for distribution within Iran. International Socialist Alternative (ISA–the international movement we are part of) is committed to building the international solidarity movement, not

Nov 16, 2022

World News

US Midterm Elections: Polarized Midterms pave way for deeper crisis

By Calvin Priest, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Forecasts of a midterm “red wave” for the Republican Party failed to land on Tuesday, and instead a divided outcome was driven by growing levels of polarization in U.S. politics.

Nov 13, 2022

World News

Economic turmoil means the era of cheap money is at an end

By Donal Devlin In the last number of weeks job losses and hiring freezes have been announced across the Big Tech sector. Meta, Twitter and Stripe, to name just three, have axed thousands of jobs – an enormous blow to the workers

Nov 12, 2022

World News

9 November: General Strike in Belgium–Reports from Belgian socialists

The following leaflet that the members of LSP/PSL distributed on the picket lines and actions was well received with a lot of discussion on the need for nationalisation of the entire energy sector, but also on how to move forward to build

Nov 11, 2022

World News

Behind Britain’s political shipwreck is a declining system

By Tom Costello, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) First, the Queen dies. Then a ‘mini-budget’ pushes the British economy to the brink of collapse. Then, just after the Tories come within an inch of reinstalling Boris Johnson

Nov 6, 2022

World News

China: Xi purges CCP’s top ranks

By Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info It was never in doubt that at October’s five-yearly CCP Congress Xi Jinping would be crowned de facto Emperor. He now starts a third-term as CCP general secretary and commander-in-chief of the army, which can be extended indefinitely as

Nov 3, 2022

Previous 1 … 23 24 25 26 27 … 86 Next