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The Covid Vaccine & the Failure of Capitalist Competition
International News & Analysis

The Covid Vaccine & the Failure of Capitalist Competition

EditorOctober 21, 2020October 21, 2020
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...
Competition vs. Coordination: The Search for a Vaccine
International News & Analysis

Competition vs. Coordination: The Search for a Vaccine

EditorOctober 9, 2020October 10, 2020
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...
Ask The Socialist: How would socialists deal with the pandemic?
International

Ask The Socialist: How would socialists deal with the pandemic?

EditorJuly 9, 2020July 9, 2020
One of our supporters recently asked us: “Capitalist governments around the world are doing a terrible job handling COVID-19, but what would socialists do instead?” We answer below. ** Early...
Planning and democratic control needed more than ever
International Theory & History

Planning and democratic control needed more than ever

EditorJune 13, 2020May 29, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing all the more clearly the fundamental failings of the capitalist economic system that we live under. Even before the pandemic, capitalist states have allowed for...
How would socialists distribute goods?
National Theory & History

How would socialists distribute goods?

EditorJune 9, 2020May 29, 2020
Recently someone commented, "The bare supermarket shelves we've seen recently show that capitalism isn't really equipped to deal with pandemics. How would socialists go about doing things differently?" We answer...
COVID-19 crisis: What Socialist Action fights for
National Socialist Action News

COVID-19 crisis: What Socialist Action fights for

EditorJune 5, 2020May 29, 2020
Healthcare for all -An end to all funding cuts, closures and privatisations in healthcare. -For huge investment into pubic healthcare to significantly increase capacity and prepare for future shocks. -For...
United Workers Union plan a step in right direction
National

United Workers Union plan a step in right direction

EditorMay 22, 2020May 21, 2020
In late March, Tim Kennedy, the national secretary of the United Workers Union (UWU), released a document that has stirred up some positive discussion in the trade union movement. Titled...
Jack Mundey, giant of the Australian labour movement
National Theory & History

Jack Mundey, giant of the Australian labour movement

EditorMay 12, 2020May 11, 2020
Jack Mundey – a giant of the Australian labour movement – has died at the age of 90. Mundey rose to prominence in the 1970s as a leader of the...
Lenin: 150 years since his birth
Theory & History

Lenin: 150 years since his birth

EditorApril 25, 2020January 4, 2021
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his revolutionary alias, Vladimir Lenin, was born in the city of Simbirsk, now known as Ulyanovsk, on Russia’s Volga river a century and a...
COVID-19: Behind the PPE shortage
International National

COVID-19: Behind the PPE shortage

EditorApril 14, 2020April 8, 2020
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis workers in various essential services have gone beyond the call of duty to help the rest of us feel safe and secure, from supermarket staff to...
Could we have a shorter work week?
National Theory & History

Could we have a shorter work week?

EditorApril 12, 2020April 8, 2020
Microsoft recently granted its workers in Japan five Friday’s off in a row, resulting in a 40% productivity jump. Similar recent experiments have resulted in healthier, happier more efficient workers....
COVID-19: From outbreak to pandemic
International

COVID-19: From outbreak to pandemic

EditorApril 10, 2020April 10, 2020
How has COVID-19 spread so far and so fast? Catastrophes are not caused by a single event, but rather a chain of events, in this case linked to the type...
Who’s paying for the wage subsidies?
National

Who’s paying for the wage subsidies?

EditorApril 5, 2020April 3, 2020
The federal government announced a $130 billion wage subsidy package in late March. The measures include provisions for workers in companies that have been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic to...
Coronavirus and class struggle discussed
National Socialist Action News

Coronavirus and class struggle discussed

EditorApril 2, 2020April 2, 2020
Socialist Action held a successful online event to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic on March 28. Conducted as a live video conference over Zoom, members and supporters from around the country...
Who should pay for the COVID-19 crisis?
National

Who should pay for the COVID-19 crisis?

EditorMarch 31, 2020March 30, 2020
So far, ordinary people have been forced to bear the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Obviously we have the announcement of tens of thousands of job losses, but even those...
Socialist feminism: An idea for the 2020s
International National

Socialist feminism: An idea for the 2020s

EditorMarch 8, 2020March 3, 2020
Women and men around the world will mark March 8 as International Women’s Day, with demonstrations, marches and celebrations. The run-up to this occasion presents an important opportunity to examine...
Our international has changed its name!
International Socialist Action News

Our international has changed its name!

EditorFebruary 22, 2020February 19, 2020
International Socialist Alternative is the new name of the global organisation Socialist Action is affiliated to. Formally known as the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), the new name, International...
Ireland: General election delivers historic result
International

Ireland: General election delivers historic result

EditorFebruary 16, 2020February 12, 2020
General Election 2020 in Ireland was historic. It was only the second time that the combined vote of the two major parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, went below 50%....

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The rich get richer whilst the rest of us suffer under Covid-19

Healthcare workers need proper PPE!

Covid-19 and the housing crisis

Growing support for recognising Invasion Day

The national question in Wales

Neoliberalism: demise or adaptation?

Australia part of a global rise in gender based violence

Ombudsman: ‘Hard Lockdown’ of Melbourne Public Housing Estates Violated Human Rights

RCEP: World’s Biggest Anti-Worker Trade Deal Signed

Greece: Activists Defeat Authoritarian Protest Ban

Reserve Bank Props Up Capitalism, But Can’t Solve Underlying Problems

Veganism, Farming and Climate Change – What Socialists Say

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