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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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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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Sue Gray Report unveiled – drive Johnson and the Tories out

Statement by Socialist Alternative–our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland For the last six months, the government and Johnson have been rocked by revelations as part of the ‘partygate’ scandal, with a barrage of examples of top-level ministers breaking their own

May 25, 2022

Anti-war·Featured Articles·World News

War in Ukraine – a new drawn-out phase

The Kremlin was hoping for a double celebration on 9 May: to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in WW2, and the jubilant return of troops after a short victorious war in Ukraine. But it was not able to do so. It has

May 19, 2022

20 May: Day of international solidarity with Russian anti-War activists!

20 May: Day of international solidarity with Russian anti-war activists! Freedom for Dzhavid Mamedov and all anti-war activists! For international solidarity of the working class to stop the war! Tverskoi Court in Moscow has sentenced Dzhavid Mamedov, a socialist, anti-war activist, campaigner

May 17, 2022

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China: ‘Zero Covid’ disaster – voices from Shanghai

“I want to break down and cry” ⬤ Li Yong of chinaworker.info spoke to Shanghai residents Haiyang and Xiaoyan. These interviews were conducted on 11 April when Shanghai had been in lockdown for almost a fortnight. Since then the city of 28

May 16, 2022

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