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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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Haiti: President assassinated amid a deepening crisis

By Eric Jenkins, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) On July 7, Haitian President Jovenal Moïse was surrounded in his home by 28 “bodyguards”/mercenaries belonging to the Miami-based “CTU security”. Several then went inside of his home and shot

Jul 30, 2021

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Kshama Solidarity: Seattle’s billionaires target socialist city council member

By Ty Nolan The right-wing in Seattle is trying to undemocratically recall the city’s only elected socialist in 100 years. Kshama Sawant is Seattle’s socialist city council member responsible for spearheading movements to win a $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax to

Jul 30, 2021

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Tunisia: No to Saïed’s “Palace Coup”

By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative Just over ten years since the popular uprising forced Tunisian dictator Ben Ali from power, new convulsions are rocking the country. Now the President has dismissed the government and frozen Parliament for 30 days. Late on

Jul 28, 2021

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Pegasus scandal: Big brother threat to our democratic rights and privacy

As the world continues to be ravaged by the pandemic and the signs of climate catastrophe are becoming all too apparent, a new bombshell dominated global media on 19 July. The Guardian, alongside 16 other media outlets, reported on a major new

Jul 21, 2021

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Unprecedented floods in Europe: Solidarity as the last line of defence

PSL (Left Socialist Party)-reporters in Liège, our sister organisation Belgium On Friday, the provisional death toll from the floods and extreme weather in Wallonia, the southern part of Belgium, rose to 18. Apocalyptic images followed one another without interruption. The only constant

Jul 20, 2021

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Food Riots in South Africa — Build organised working-Class struggle against the criminal capitalist class!

By Workers and Socialist Party (WASP–our sister organisation in South Africa) South Africa is currently engulfed in food riots. Scenes from KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), Gauteng, Eastern Cape, and the North West have shown masses of people rushing to secure what little they can

Jul 19, 2021

Solidarity with the Cuban People against imperialism and capitalist restoration

Statement by International Socialist Alternative The shortage of medicines, as well as the growing economic crisis which has been aggravated by the pandemic, has generated a growing discontent among Cuban working people, who took to the streets on July 11. The ruling

Jul 16, 2021

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Billionaire space race: Shameless vanity projects in a world of want

By Manus Lenihan It is a pity Jeff Bezos is only going to be up in space for three minutes. If he stayed for a few hours he would find out that astronauts are the only people with worse toilet arrangements than

Jul 16, 2021

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The rising wave of revolt in Latin America

By Jonathan Diebold A tidal wave of protests and mass movements has been crashing over Latin America. Its origins date back years, but it really took off around 2019. From Mexico to Brazil, Chile to Haiti, working-class people are spearheading movements against

Jul 15, 2021

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An ignominious end: US imperialism withdraws from Afghanistan

By Eddie McCabe US imperialism’s 20-year war in Afghanistan has come to an ignominious end with the final withdrawal of its 2,500 remaining troops this month. The withdrawal comes two months before Biden’s deadline of 11 September — the 20th anniversary of

Jul 11, 2021

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