Rohingya Refugees Are Not the Enemy: Defend refugees, unite workers

Reject the racist scapegoating of Rohingya refugees. Defend the stateless and oppressed, demand legal rights and protection, and unite Malaysian, migrant and refugee workers against exploitation, division and capitalist inequality.

Perspectives for Malaysia: A Marxist Approach

A Marxist review of Jeyakumar Devaraj’s Malaysia at the Crossroads, examining PSM’s method, reformism, coalition politics, class independence, and the need for a revolutionary socialist alternative in Malaysia.

Reformasi Is Dead: A Successful First Public Discussion at Our New Organising Centre

Socialist Alternative held its first public discussion at our new organising centre, examining Reformasi’s dead end and the urgent need to build an independent working-class alternative.

Rafizi’s Reformasi Rebrand and the Crisis of Malaysian Capitalist Politics

Bersama presents itself as a fresh alternative, but beneath its reformasi rhetoric lies the same capitalist politics that have failed workers and youth for decades. As Malaysia’s political crisis deepens, this article argues that only an independent socialist working-class movement can offer a genuine alternative.

Labour Day 2026 and the Crisis of Capitalism

In this year’s International Workers’ Day, the global working class is facing a deepening crisis of capitalism alongside escalating geopolitical tensions. Wars and armed conflicts continue to spread from Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Myanmar, while the threat of a wider world war is becoming increasingly real through the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Millions of workers and poor people have become victims of war, forced displacement, famine and worsening poverty. At the same time, the cost-of-living crisis, attacks on workers’ rights, unemployment, debt crises and austerity policies continue to burden the lives of ordinary people in almost every country today.

5 Reports of Rape Every Day: What is to be done while Parliament laments low prosecution rate?

Between 2015 and 2025, Malaysia witnessed a staggering 17,609 reported rape cases — an average of five rape reports every single day… Only 7,090 of these cases, or roughly 40%, resulted in charges being filed… in an earlier decade only about 16% of reported rape cases were taken to court and only about 2.7% resulted in convictions… formal figures greatly understate the reality because many victims never file reports at all… only around 10% of rape incidents ever reach law enforcement, consistent with about 8–11% globally… Most crucially, a study of 304 sexual assault survivors… found that a large majority (about 76%) of victims were from a low socio‑economic class… Lower‑income individuals often have fewer resources, less social support, weaker bargaining power within households, and reduced access to protective services or legal recourse — all of which materially condition their exposure to violence.

International Solidarity Campaign: Justice for the 177 Fired Mediceram Workers

We, the socialist, labour, and youth organisations endorsing this statement, demand that the Malaysian government, particularly the Department of Industrial Relations and the Department of Labour, take action to resolve the crisis faced by Bangladeshi workers who have been exploited and oppressed under the management of local agents and Malaysian companies. We also call on the Government of Bangladesh, especially the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, to urgently act on the official appeal submitted by the Mediceram Workers’ Committee on 6 November 2025, which demands investigation, compensation, and justice.

Around 190 Bangladeshi Migrant Workers at Mediceram Dismissed for Demanding Fair and Dignified Working Conditions

We, the Workers’ Solidarity Network, Sosialis Alternatif, and AKSI (Socialist Student Alliance), believe that the employer’s continued betrayal of existing agreements reflects the management’s utter disregard for the workers’ basic demands. The company is driven purely by profit, willing to act arbitrarily and exploit workers who are fighting for their rights. Likewise, the government must take firmer and more transparent action in fulfilling its responsibility — especially in defending the dignity of the working class struggling for justice.

Solidarity with Migrant Workers at Mediceram on Their Third Strike for Justice!

We, Workers’ Solidarity Network, AKSI and Sekolah Merdeka, fully stand in solidarity with the striking workers at Mediceram in their struggle for justice. After all, a tree does not sway without the wind. The continued strike by workers at Mediceram is a direct response to the oppression they face from their bosses. The fight of migrant workers in Malaysia must be supported and strengthened by local worker organizations — particularly principled and militant trade unions.

Remembering Lenin

On this day 155 years ago, Lenin was born in Tsarist Russia. An unapologetic Marxist and brilliant revolutionary strategist, he lived much of his life as the leader of the Bolshevik Party, which led the Russian working class and peasantry toward the triumphant conclusion of the socialist revolution of October 1917, and the building of the first ever democratic workers’ state in the world. Lenin’s contribution to history cannot be overstated.