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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

Reviews and Culture·World News

Review: In The Camps by Darren Byler

By Per-Åke Westerlund, International Socialist Alternative Three hundred camps with more than a million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang are probably the most brutal expressions of the CCP dictatorship in China. In Darren Byler’s new book, In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony,

Jan 2, 2022

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Iran: Teachers’ strikes and protests show the way forward

By Nina Mo, a member of ISA in Austria On 23 December, a national day of action, tens of thousands of teachers and retired teachers — with women workers at the forefront — protested in over 100 cities in Iran, demanding higher

Dec 29, 2021

Environment·World News

Climate catastrophe demands a revolutionary struggle for democratic socialism

By Arne Johansson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna — ISA in Sweden The pitiful outcome of the Glasgow climate summit, COP26, has been greeted with anger and frustration by the world’s climate activists. Completely inadequate and ineffective market solutions mean a continued rapidly shrinking “carbon

Dec 28, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·World News

Capitalist world leaders are to blame for COVID nightmare

By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in the US “Everyone has COVID.” If you live in New York, you’ve heard or seen someone say this in the last 24 hours. For the second day in a row, the state broke

Dec 27, 2021

2021: Age of Disorder, Year 2

By Danny Byrne, International Socialist Alternative International Executive. From beginning to end, 2021 was a year of a perfect storm for world capitalism. This rotten and decadent system has rarely if ever before, faced such deep simultaneous crises on so many fronts.

Dec 26, 2021

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United States: Unionise Amazon — save workers’ lives!

By Michael O’Brien The circumstances in which six Amazon workers recently died, and 95 of their colleagues had to be rescued from a warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, which collapsed during a tornado, brings home the fact that the lives of workers are

Dec 23, 2021

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Hong Kong: Record low turnout in Beijing’s fake election

By Zuo Ren, Socialist Action The first Legislative Council (Legco) elections since Beijing’s “makeover” will be held on December 19. The Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has increased the size of the Legco to 90 seats, only 22 of which are elected. In addition,

Dec 22, 2021

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Election in Chile: Defeat of the far-right opens the road for new mass struggles

By André Ferrari, Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (our sister organisation in Brazil) Gabriel Boric, of the “Apruebo Dignidad” (Approve Dignity) coalition has defeated the far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast in the second round of the Chilean elections. Boric obtained 55.8% of the votes,

Dec 20, 2021

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Intellectual property rights: Big pharma makes billions from vaccine apartheid

By Cathal Curran In the month since the discovery of the Omicron variant, it has already spread across the globe, brought about the return of harsh restrictions on the lives of millions, and made shareholders in vaccine manufacturers billions. In the first

Dec 19, 2021

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Britain: Is this the end of the line for Johnson

By Tom Costello, Socialist Alternative ( our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland) This past Sunday marked two years since the election of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. Far from delivering on his promises to usher in a new age of

Dec 18, 2021

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