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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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Mussolini-inspired, far-right coalition gains power in Italy

By James McCabe The far-right around Europe loudly celebrated as Giorgia Meloni became Italy’s new prime minister. Meloni received letters of congratulations from hard-right figures such as Victor Orbán in Hungary and Marine Le Pen in France. Her “Brothers of Italy” party

Oct 23, 2022

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Britain: Truss sacked, government implodes – Tories out now!

By Claire Laker Mansfield, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) Another Tory PM bites the dust. In scenes less like a slow motion car crash and more like a high-speed multi-vehicle collision, Tory MPs have ousted yet another

Oct 20, 2022

Global food crisis: How imperialism is the cause

By Dan O’Rourke A recent report by Oxfam has again raised the alarm about global hunger. Climate change, war, and supply chain crises are combining to exacerbate the ongoing malnutrition crises in neo-colonial countries. According to the 2022 Global Hunger Index, populations

Oct 19, 2022

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Escalating strike in France — Expropriate the energy capitalists and climate killers

By Philipp Chmel, member of our sister organisation in Belgium, Left Socialist Party In France, workers organized with the CGT union at TotalEnergies and Exxon Mobil are striking for a 10% wage increase — “7% for inflation and 3% as profit share”

Oct 19, 2022

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China: Xi Jinping’s 20th Congress caps five years of political disasters

The Chinese regime (CCP) is holding its 20th Congress in Beijing, at which Xi Jinping will be confirmed as dictator-for-life. An unlimited non-stop state propaganda campaign has been eulogizing the “many achievements” of Xi’s decade-long reign. But in reality Xi’s tenure has

Oct 16, 2022

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Mussolini-inspired, far-right coalition gains power in Italy

Oct 11, 2022

Socialist Feminism·World News

Iran: “Woman, Life, Freedom” – A Programme to Win

As a contribution to the discussions about the way forward for the movement in Iran, ISA supporters have drafted a programme of demands. The explosive events in Iran, affecting already Iraq and Afghanistan directly, are still gaining momentum. School students, especially girls

Oct 10, 2022

Uncategorized·World News

Al Jazeera shines spotlight on anti-Corbyn slander campaign

By Robert Cosgrave Al Jazeera has produced a three-part docu-series dealing with the years when the Labour Party was led by Jeremy Corbyn and the campaign of lies and slander that was hurled against him by the Blairite right wing of the

Oct 9, 2022

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A strong dollar is a harbinger of recession to come

By Michael O’Brien The rapid decline in the value of the pound sterling relative to the dollar in the aftermath of the recent ‘mini-budget’ in the UK has overshadowed a pre-existing trend. Most major currencies in recent months were declining in such

Oct 8, 2022

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Brazilian socialists say: “Defeat Bolsonaro & mobilise to reconquer our rights”

By LSR (our sister organisation in Brazil) The majority of Brazilians rejected Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential election. Bolsonaro trailed Lula of the Workers Party (PT) by a difference of 6.18 million votes. Despite this, the genocidal president has

Oct 7, 2022

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