Myanmar: Always Be Diligent, Always Be Rebellious
International Socialist Alternative, with workers and youth across the world, expresses its complete disgust and anger at the horrific events of last weekend in Myanmar. ကမ္ဘာအနှံ့အပြားမှ တော်လှန်ရေးသမားများသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ဒီမိုကရေစီ တိုက်ပွဲဝင်သူများနှင့် အတူတကွ ရပ်တည်သည်။ စစ်တပ်၊ အရင်းရှင်များနှင့် အပေးအယူ ဆက်လက်မလုပ်ရေး။ နိုင်ငံရေး အကျဉ်းသားများအကုန်လုံး ကမ္ဘာအနှံ့အပြားမှ တော်လှန်ရေးသမားများသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ဒီမိုကရေစီ တိုက်ပွဲဝင်သူများနှင့် အတူတကွ ရပ်တည်သည်။ စစ်တပ်၊ အရင်းရှင်များနှင့် အပေးအယူ ဆက်လက်မလုပ်ရေး။ နိုင်ငံရေး အကျဉ်းသားများအကုန်လုံး လွှတ်ပေးရေး။ ၂၀၀၈ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေကို ဖျက်သိမ်းရေး။ […]
World Perspectives: Opportunities and Dangers in the “Age of Disorder”
Here we publish the text of a document on World Perspectives discussed, amended and approved by ISA’s International Committee during a meeting from 23–26 February 2021 Introduction Almost four months have passed since the document ‘Opportunities and Dangers in the “Age of Disorder”’ was first drafted. In this fast-paced period of changes, this is a […]
Jan Van Emous November, 18 1962 — March 27, 2021
It is a shock and difficult to comprehend, but Saturday evening our friend and comrade Jan van Emous died at home, a few weeks after being diagnosed with two brain tumours. We sympathise with his wife Ann, his sons Ben and Tijl and the whole family. It is hard to comprehend and bear that an […]
Putin’s Regime Attacks Socialists — 1 April Day of Solidarity
22 March the Moscow court took the decision to sentence our comrade Matvey Aleksandrov to 15 days in prison for his participation in a peaceful demonstration on 23 January. This happened immediately after his release from a previous 25 day sentence for distributing leaflets outside Moscow University calling for support for the protest to mark […]
The New Corporation — the Unfortunately Necessary Sequel
The New Corporation People can join the mailing list of “The New Corporation — the Unfortunately Necessary Sequel” to obtain news of streaming launches in your area and campaign info at this link. The 2003 film The Corporation explored the question “if a corporation is a person, what kind of person is it?” The film’s […]
Amazon Plays Dirty in Bessemer Union Drive: Mass Solidarity Needed
Vote counting starts at the end of March, and Amazon will likely use every trick in the book to challenge ballots from union supporting workers to drag the union drive into the courts and delay a final ruling until late April. The deep south has a long history of voter suppression, one which Birmingham, and […]
Coordinated Actions in Greece-Turkey-Cyprus Against Extractions and War
On Friday 19 March the youth movement against climate change had called for an international climate strike. On this occasion, the Greek-Turkish-Cypriot initiative against hydrocarbon extractions and war “Μας σκάβουν το λάκκο — Kazma Birak — Don’t Dig” called for symbolic actions under the slogan “System change, not climate change”. The response was quite significant, […]
Under Capitalism, More Pandemics to Come
Over a year has passed since billions of people’s lives were halted and turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, and while vaccinations are ramping up in some countries, the path to herd immunity is long and steep with hurdles like the threat of vaccine-resistant virus variants. Healthcare systems have collapsed, billionaires have made billions, […]
Modern Monetary Theory or Marxism?
The global economic crisis has made clearer than ever the need for social spending. Workers, students, and youth in the U.S. are rallying behind Medicare for All (M4A), cancellation of student debt, and a Green New Deal (GND). Yet whenever these proposals are raised, corporate Democrats and Republicans always ask, “who’s going to pay for […]
New International Publication.
ISA has agreed with Socialist Alternative in the United States that the journal “Socialist World” will now be produced with an extra orientation to meet the need of the international audience. During its short history, “Socialist World” is establishing itself in the United States as a provider of lively analysis of US politics, key historical […]
China: The Unreal World of Xi Jinping
There is a huge and widening gap between reality and how the Chinese dictatorship presents reality. With the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party (CCP) approaching in July and China’s dictator Xi Jinping needing an endless run of “victories” to secure his position in advance of next year’s regime reshuffle, the state’s […]
“Spurn the Dust to Win the Prize” — 150 Years Since the Paris Commune
150 years ago this month, history was made when working-class Parisians established the Paris Commune on 18 March 1871. This represented the first example of a society run by and for the working class — a workers’ state. While the Commune lasted for only 72 days, it was able to implement social change that improved […]