Since its start, it has contributed to increasing China’s influence in large parts of the world.
For example, with regards to the question of food shortage and starvation; worldwide, one billion people work or are employed in the food production sector — if they were to organize and run the sector, nobody would have to starve.Or, as Lenin put it: “Capitalism in its imperialist stage leads directly to the most comprehensive socialization of production; it, so to speak, drags the capitalists, against their will and consciousness, into some sort of a new social order, a transitional one from complete free competition to complete socialization.”.But while the necessary material and technological means exist for international planning to benefit humanity, the ruling classes are going in the opposite direction — they are retreating to the nation state and promoting nationalism.A race between countries to re-open the national economy as early as possible is taking place, which reflects the fierce battles between the national economies. Economic decisions that affect workers the most are made behind closed doors.
Socialist Alternative is a national organization fighting in our workplaces, communities, and campuses against the exploitation and injustices people face every day. Political Organization.
This is why Socialist Alternative organises for a fundamental change in society and why we think the trade union movement needs to go beyond demanding an extension of the job retention scheme. International Socialist Alternative (formerly the Committee for a Workers’ International) is a global fighting organization of workers, young people and all those oppressed by capitalism and imperialism. Non-members welcome too! The unions and the working class as a whole are the only forces that can smash exploitation. Moreover, in February 2021, the last of the big nuclear treaties with Russia, New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), will come to an end, and the US shows no interest in its renewal. during a war or cold war situation, socialists will come into conflict with the trade union bureaucracy due to their concrete actions.
Many wars and military conflicts have led to a fast and far-reaching politicization of the masses — the Vietnam War and the invasion of Iraq in 2003 are good examples for such developments.Of course, our work is quite different in the regions and countries that are directly involved in war situations, like Israel-Palestine or the US, and in those where there are large communities from war zones, like the Kurdish diaspora in Germany or refugee groups.When the question of war becomes more prominent, we have to counter various forms of propaganda.
All we need to do is listen to the experiences of the thousands of health workers who have risked their lives and endured traumatic experiences to cushion the blow of the virus.We can also ask some obvious questions.
This has important repercussions on the dynamic and perspectives of this process, as well as on program.”.Another difference worth mentioning is that in today’s conflicts, the different blocs are not as clear cut as they were during the Cold War of the 20th century. International Socialist Alternative is an international association of Trotskyist political parties. After the collapse of the Stalinist states, it looked for a while as if the US would be the only world superpower and could do whatever they wanted.Today, the main conflict is between the two economic and military superpowers China and the US.
(5) the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.This repetition is important, because, unlike reformists or others on the left, we take the economic part of imperialism into account and do not reduce imperialism to the military part. Any laws or measures that could be used as a pretext for the suppression of the democratic right to organise and protest cannot be accepted. Powerful, well-connected men have used their money and influence within the billionaire class to...Virus Trade Union, Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia) the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”.We can see this especially when we look at a media dominated by the likes of Rupert Murdoch, and even in the so-called ‘impartial’ news outlets like the BBC, who blatantly act as mouthpieces for either the Tories or Keir Starmer, as he forces the Labour Party back towards Blairism.This creates feelings of alienation among working class and young people, which can generate massive class anger, struggle and even revolutions.
On Saturday, up to 10,000 people, including Covid-19 denialists, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered in Trafalgar Square to stage a ‘Unite for Freedom’ demonstration.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has not only declared the Chinese Communist Party to be the number one threat to security, he also announced more US military operations to push back Chinese maritime activity in the South China Sea.The fundamental conflict is about who is the number one superpower, particularly in a shrinking world economy.
This is not to say that every single person attending was a far-right or racist, but a big chunk of the main speakers and major endorsers were.One further flagship speaker at the event was David Icke – a former Coventry City goalkeeper and sports commentator who is now a conspiracy theorist, whose ideas contain a heavy current of antisemitic tropes – for instance in his idea that the world is controlled by a select group of ‘Zionist bankers’ in league with shapeshifting reptilians (actual lizards).