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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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The Socialist Party and support for the Corbyn movement

Article from “The Socialist” , paper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales on our approach towards the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party in Britain. Socialist Party members have received widespread support from trade unionists, anti-cuts activists and

Nov 24, 2016

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Women rising around the world

By Aprille Scully Inequality under the capitalist system has accelerated in recent years and sees the top 1% own more wealth than the 99%. Neoliberalism means privatisation and underfunding of public services which particularly affects women in areas of health, education, maternity

Nov 22, 2016

Featured Articles·World News

US: We need mass resistance to Trump & a new party of the 99%

Here we publish the latest analysis of Socialist Alternative (SA) in the US, following Trump's victory. Last night (9 November), Socialist Alternative organised mass marches and rallies across the US as a first response to Trump's election. Tens of thousands of people

Nov 10, 2016

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US: Deeply damaged, the two parties limp towards the finish line

The country is “slouching towards the mutual assured destruction of our political system.” – William S. Cohen, former secretary of defence under Bill Clinton In this election between the two least popular presidential candidates in modern history, whoever wins tomorrow will enter

Nov 8, 2016

Featured Articles·World News

US: Brutal crackdown in Standing Rock

By Manus Lenihan North Dakota today is the centre of a US-wide and international movement of Native Americans and their allies in the environmental movement. The planned route for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) winds from Illinois to the Bakken oil reserves.

Nov 4, 2016

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Statement from Kshama Sawant: End political repression against Standing Rock protesters

Statement by Seattle City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative (sister organisation of the Socialist Party in the US) member Kshama Sawant on the brutal repression against those protesting against the North Dakota pipeline. “Thursday in North Dakota, a police force backed by corporate

Oct 31, 2016

Environment·World News

Our planet can’t wait: System change not climate change!

By Manus Lenihan Climate change is no longer just a distant threat. The town of Fort McMurray in Canada burned for months earlier this year, part of a trend towards far more intense wildfires across the world. Extreme weather events have tripled

Oct 28, 2016

Featured Articles·World News

US Presidential election & the need for a party of the 99%

By Cillian Gillespie The US Presidential election has taken a dramatic twist with the coming to light of a secret recording of Donald Trump grotesquely bragging of his sexual assaults of various women. As vile as these comments are, their content should

Oct 11, 2016

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Israel: Shimon Peres and the ‘peace dove’ myth

A life spent defending capitalism, militarism and the national oppression of Palestinians

Oct 10, 2016

Featured Articles·World News

Poland: Mass protests force retreat on abortion ban

The following article was written by a member of the Socialist Party’s sister organisation in Poland, Alternatywa Socjalistyczna in the aftermath of 140,000 taking to the streets of Poland against government plans to bring in ban on a woman’s right to choose.

Oct 6, 2016

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