Indonesia: Escalating anti-government protests
For a mass working class party for workers, young people, poor farmers and the oppressed. Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, was inaugurated for a second term on Sunday, 20 October, but he has been facing a continuous wave of protests from young people, workers and others ever since the general election in April of this year. […]
Socialist change not climate change!
“Even an entire society, a nation or all simultaneously existing societies taken together are not owners of the earth, they are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations, as boni patres familias [good heads of households] Karl Marx (Capital, Volume 3) The call for an […]
West Papua: Mass demonstrations erupt against Indonesian repression
The Indonesian government has sent more than 3,700 police and military forces into West Papua following nearly three weeks of protests and mass demonstrations in the region. These were triggered when the Indonesian National Army (TNI) and right-wing vigilantes targeted several Papuan students in Surabaya in East Java, after allegations that they tried to destroy […]
Czechoslovakia 1968: Russian invasion crushes hopes of workers’ democracy
The task of implementing the socialist revolution there and everywhere remains the most pressing struggle of the world working class Robin Clapp, Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales) national committee The year 1968 was tumultuous with workers’ accumulated frustrations igniting rebellion against capitalism and non-capitalist dictatorial Stalinist regimes alike. Brewing discontent in France spilled over into outright […]
China: Trump’s trade war draws closer
The world has moved closer to a trade war on multiple fronts as Trump’s administration rolls out its aggressive ‘America First’ trade policies, taking aim at both close US allies and major rivals. On 1 June, the US implemented its long threatened tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminium imports from […]
Malaysia: A ‘people tsunami’ boots out party in power for six decades
On the 9th of May, the country held its 14th general election which saw the humiliating defeat for one of the longest-serving ruling parties in the world – the BN (National Front). This outcome has gone against the predictions of almost all the international and local media who predicted that BN will be once again […]
Malaysia’s sixty-year ruling party facing electoral defeat
The 14th Malaysian general election – GE14 – is going ahead on May 9th. The ruling National Front (BN) government is expected to face intense competition from the main opposition coalition, Alliance for Hope (PH), similar to that staged in the last two general elections of 2008 and 2013. This time it could be the […]
ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTS: IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS 40,000 PEOPLE ANSWERED OUR CALL!
Published On November 11, 2016 | By Bryan Watson | Socialist Alternative In Action The unthinkable has happened – Donald Trump has won. Further, the Republicans have seized control of both chambers of congress. They are planning to unleash a storm of attacks against the most vulnerable in our society. This cannot stand. We need […]
Solidarity Statement for ‘Repeal the 8th’ from Malaysia
Repeal the 8th is a movement that demands the abolition of a constitution in Ireland which criminalize abortion. We in Malaysia support ‘repeal the 8th’ movement and wish to stand in solidarity with our sisters in Ireland. September 28 marks the international day of action to fight for the rights of abortion and repeal the […]
Book Review: My Side Of History By Chin Peng
This book is important from a number of points of view. The author was the leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), which he joined as a 15-year old schoolboy, and which played an important role in two guerrilla struggles – in the Second World War and in the post-war 12-year ‘Emergency’, in reality […]
