The rich get richer whilst the rest of us suffer under Covid-19
At the start of the lockdowns in March wrapping around Centrelink buildings around the country were large queues of people who just found out they were out of work. The...
The national question in Wales
Below we publish an interview between our sister section in Greece, Xekinima, and Glyn Matthews, a member of our sister section in England, Wales and Scotland about recent developments in...
Neoliberalism: demise or adaptation?
Below we publish a contribution to the discussion surrounding neoliberalism and the world economy in the 2020s by Vlad Bortun from our sister section in the Spanish State - Socialismo...
RCEP: World’s Biggest Anti-Worker Trade Deal Signed
[caption id="attachment_20716" align="alignleft" width="2560"] Photo by Dominik Lückmann via Unsplash[/caption] Fifteen countries signed on to the world’s biggest trade deal in mid-November. Despite the pro-capitalist propaganda this new free trade...
Greece: Activists Defeat Authoritarian Protest Ban
This article was originally published by Socialist Action's sister section in Greece. November 17th is a day of historic importance for the Greek working class and the Left. 47 years...
US: Remembering the Stolen 2000 Presidential Election
[caption id="attachment_20674" align="alignleft" width="2560"] Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash.[/caption] Donald Trump has made open threats to steal the 2020 US Presidential election if the result does not go...
Poland: Mass Movement in Defence of Abortion Rights
Huge protests have erupted in Poland over further restrictions to abortion rights, which are already among the most restricted in the world. Since the writing of this article on October...
Lekki Massacre in Nigeria: Kick out the Killer Buhari-Led Regime Now!
Protests against police brutality in Nigeria have taken a violent turn. Police have opened fire on peaceful demonstrators, killing at least twelve people. We publish here a press statement issued...
The Covid Vaccine & the Failure of Capitalist Competition
This article was originally published by the Socialist Party, the Irish sister organisation of Socialist Action. The total failure of the capitalist system to deliver for the needs and aspirations...
Review: The Social Dilemma – Social Media, Addiction and Capitalism
This article was originally published by Socialist Action's sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland, Socialist Alternative. Like millions of other people over the last few weeks, I watched Netflix’s...
Greece: Anti-Fascist Campaign Leads to Guilty Verdict Against Golden Dawn
Last week, an Athens court handed down a guilty verdict in a historic trial over the Greek fascist organisation Golden Dawn. On October 15, its neo-Nazi leaders were given 13-year...
Belarus Solidarity Appeal: Report by a Striking Worker
[caption id="attachment_20629" align="alignleft" width="540"] Striking miners in Belaruskali.[/caption] Since the beginning of August, and the declaration of the fraudulent election result...
Competition vs. Coordination: The Search for a Vaccine
This article was originally published on the website of Socialist Action's US sister section, Socialist Alternative. It was written in coordination with a shop steward at a pharmaceutical company in...
US: Fighting Trump and the Far Right
In the US Presidential debate two days ago, Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacy and called on the Proud Boys, a violent white nationalist group, to "stand back and...
Italy: Covid-19’s social and class impact
We republish here an interview with Giuliano Brunetti, from Socialist Action's sister section Resistenze Internazionali (International Resistance – ISA Italy) about the situation in Italy today in the midst of...
California Wildfires: A Socialist Perspective
This article was first published by Socialist Action's co-thinkers in the United States. Remembering one’s experience of a wildfire is like assembling a series of fragments from a broken picture:...
US: Justice for Breonna Taylor – The Whole System Is Guilty
The below is the text of a leaflet distributed at protests the night of the non-indictment in Breonna Taylor’s murder by Socialist Action's US co-thinkers, Socialist Alternative. Under intense pressure...
Southern Europe: New Economic Crisis, Old Structural Causes
[caption id="attachment_20585" align="alignleft" width="1529"] Protests in Athens against the Greek government’s education bill on June 9. (Photo: 902.gr)[/caption] Fighting Left Alternative Desperately Needed Apart from geographical and cultural similarities, Southern...