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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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Brazil: Stop the coup in the streets! Defeat Bolsonaro and build a socialist alternative

By Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil) Brazil sinks into a historic crisis. Bolsonaro’s brazen attitude and Paulo Guedes’ ravings about the economic situation cannot hide the harsh reality. We have 33 million Brazilians going hungry, in addition to another 90

Aug 18, 2022

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Seattle becomes first abortion sanctuary city: How working people & socialists Won

By Bia Lacombe, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Last month, thousands of local activists and young people in Seattle won a landmark victory in the abortion rights struggle — led by the office of socialist City Councilmember Kshama

Aug 16, 2022

Uncategorized·World News

China: Mortgage revolt shakes government

By chinaworker.info China is being shaken by a new resistance movement. Tens of thousands of mortgage rebels have announced they will no longer pay back their housing loans for unfinished apartments they cannot live in. Announced on social media just a few

Aug 15, 2022

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Britain: Amazon workers strike back against measly pay offer

A wave of industrial action, much of it unofficial, is sweeping Amazon fulfilment centres across Britain. Workers at LCY2 centre in Essex staged a sit-down strike over a measly 35p pay rise and this is spreading, with over 100 walking out in

Aug 11, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Sabina Higgins runs afoul of establishment war-mongers

By Michael O’Brien A letter by Sabina Higgins, wife of President Higgins, to The Irish Times on 27 July, concerning the war in Ukraine, has been seized upon for attack by various Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians and other pro-capitalist establishment

Aug 9, 2022

Socialist Feminism·World News

A big win for abortion rights in Kansas

By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) In kicking abortion rights back to the states, the right hoped that they’d see a clear path to near-total abortion bans across the country. Well, the results this week in

Aug 6, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·Uncategorized·World News

War and its consequences: Five months after the invasion of Ukraine

Editorial statement from issue 8 of Socialist World, the theoretical journal of the International Socialist Alternative War in Ukraine is now entering its six month. Entire cities such as Mariupol and Severodonetsk have been annihilated. Thousands of civilians and tens of thousands

Aug 4, 2022

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ISA world school 2022: Mass revolts against morbid capitalism

By Per Ake Westerlund, International Socialist Alternative The world is experiencing turbulent events, coming at break-kneck speed — economic and political crises, wars and mass uprisings. This was how Sonja Grusch summarized present global processes in her introduction to the opening plenary

Aug 2, 2022

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Britain: Neither Truss nor Sunak! Build a movement to bring down the Tories

By Kevin Henry The leadership election in the Tories has now come down to Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss. Workers and young people happy to see the back of Johnson will look on in dismay at the options left to be prime

Jul 27, 2022

Campaigns & Issues·Environment·Featured Articles·World News

Planet burns in record heatwave: Capitalist rulers throw fuel on the fire

By Jonathan Diebold Droughts, wildfires, 40-degree temperatures and thousands of directly related deaths: this is not the apocalyptic warning of future climate catastrophe, nor the latest disaster in a far flung corner of the globe, but the impact of the latest European

Jul 24, 2022

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