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Ukraine: A Turning point in the war?

By Per-Ake Westerlund, International Socialist Alternative That the Ukrainian army could retake the key city of Izium in just a few days, drive Russian troops out of the entire Kharkiv region, and put pressure on the front in the Donbass was not

Sep 23, 2022

Anti-war·World News

War in Ukraine: Why socialists don’t support sanctions

By Sonja Grusch, International Socialist Alternative In the face of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military, many are not only shocked, but ask themselves: what can we do to stop the aggression? The brutal attack by Putin’s regime affects everyone

Mar 30, 2022

Anti-war·Racism·World News

Racism against black & brown refugees fleeing Ukraine

By Phemelo Motseokae (WASP — our sister organisation in South Africa) The world is standing on its toes, watching in horror at the unfolding events in Ukraine. At the time of writing, over 1.2 million people have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries

Mar 8, 2022

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Reeling in the Years (2010)

Reviewed by Manus Lenihan Just gonna stand there and watch me burn […] Just gonna stand there and hear me cry […] – Eminem with Rihanna, ‘Love the way you lie,’ 2010 RTÉ’s Reeling in the Years has aired an episode covering

Apr 15, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·Environment

Existential threat of climate change looms large

By Ben Samson While the world reels in the face of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the climate change crisis ominously looms in the background as an ever-developing existential threat. Both crises are of course interconnected, as the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 – the

May 10, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic

EU in crisis and COVID-19

By Finghín Kelly Last week saw a major clash between eurozone finance ministers with a 16 meeting ending in a deadlock before a face-saving meeting later agreed to a package of measures worth up to €540 billion. This has been heralded with

Apr 19, 2020

Catalonia: Draconian jail sentences for pro-independence leaders

By Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spanish state) reporters The Spanish state has sentenced the leaders of the Catalan independence movement to long prison terms for “sedition”, for the “crime” of organising a democratic referendum on Catalan independence. 7 pro-independence leaders and politicians

Oct 14, 2019

Special Features

Britain: Parliament suspended – fight for a general election now!

By Becci Heagney, Socialist Alternative (sister organisation of the Socialist Party in England and Wales) No to Boris coup! For mass protests, bringing together the trade unions, climate strikes movement and all those opposed to this attack on democratic rights We can’t

Aug 28, 2019

The Brexit Calamity & the Role of the Workers Movement

The prolonged countdown to the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union has thrown the Conservative government into a profound crisis. Ciaran Mulholland explains that the chaos is such that an anonymous European source has compared the UK to a “failed state”, and

Apr 5, 2019

News & Analysis

Brexit and the border: A warning to the workers movement

By Socialist Party reporter On March 29th 2019 the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union. For seventeen months the British government and the EU negotiators have been struggling to reach a legally binding “withdrawal agreement” to govern the terms

Nov 22, 2018

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