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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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RMT Strike in Britain: Victory to the rail workers

By Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland The historic national strike action taking place this June is testament to the bravery and determination of rail workers everywhere. RMT voted 9:1 on a 71% turnout for action against the

Jun 21, 2022

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Food crisis: War in Ukraine means famine in Africa

By Per Olsson, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (our sister organisation in Sweden) After the 2011 famine in Somalia, the world’s power elite said, “never again”, but now the disaster is happening all over again, and even more people are at risk of starvation. Global

Jun 18, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

A brutal war of attrition – bloodshed in Ukraine continues

By Stephen Boyd Putin’s original war aim of a quick Ukrainian capitulation, with Russian troops being greeted as liberators in some areas, has been dealt a decisive blow. Failing to occupy Kyiv, Russian forces are now concentrated in the Donbas region. Fighting

Jun 9, 2022

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Britain–Johnson hangs onto power: Organise to finish him off!

By Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland It has been a tumultuous 24 hours for Boris Johnson. After the news broke on Monday morning that the required 54 letters had been sent in to the Conservative Party’s 1922

Jun 8, 2022

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Colombia- Polarization hammers ‘Uribismo’ in first round of elections

By ISA Colombia (ISA–International Socialist Alternative, the international revolutionary socialist movement that the Socialist Party in Ireland is part of) The results of the first round of the Colombian presidential elections reflect deep political polarization, a rejection of the political establishment and

Jun 6, 2022

Oxfam’s ‘Profiting From Pain’ report: The best times” for billionaires

By James Fleming The coronavirus pandemic has been among “the best times in recorded history for the billionaire class”, according to Oxfam in their Profiting From Pain report. While increasing numbers of working class and poor people have been sacrificing meals, warmth,

May 31, 2022

Featured Articles·Uncategorized·World News

United States: Deadly mass shootings expose broken system

By Grace Fors, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) In ten days, two high-profile acts of mass slaughter have stunned millions and created unimaginable grief and fear. On May 14, an 18 year-old armed white supremacist targeted a grocery

May 30, 2022

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Infant formula shortage: A nightmare caused by corporate greed

By Kailyn Nicholson, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) As the right-wing assault on abortion rights ramps up, working parents of babies are facing an extreme crisis. General concern about supply chain disruption turned into an all-out emergency for

May 27, 2022

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Brazil: Stop the coup in the streets and defeat Bolsonaro

Editorial of Ofensiva Socialista, Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (our sister organisation in Brazil) Defeating the coup being prepared by Bolsonaro and his supporters is the central task for conscious workers and the oppressed people resisting the daily hell of inflation, unemployment, hunger,

May 26, 2022

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Pharma companies “drowning in vaccines” while millions of unvaccinated suffer and die

By Dan O’Rourke A recent headline on a prominent African news outlet read “Africa needs a billion Covid vaccines, but supply is slowing down”. Just a couple of weeks prior, an article in the Financial Times exclaimed, with zero irony, “‘We are

May 26, 2022

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