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From banning books to dictating curricula, Republicans are the real cancelers, not that the MSM recognizes that.

Social-Putinism and social-imperialism are not our only problem, argues Jack Conrad. There is the curse of social‑pacifism and centrism too

The Islamic State is just the latest in a long line of state-building revolutionaries, following in the footsteps of the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks, the Khmer Rouge, and others. But its revolution is highly unlikely to spread, so the United States should follow a strategy of patient containment.

The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to provide workers with the political weapons and organisational means to fight for their social and democratic rights.

Fabien Roussel, the French Communist Party’s first presidential candidate since 2007, campaigned based on policies of austerity and support for NATO against Russia.

The CRT promotes false hopes that the pro-austerity Podemos party will suddenly break its three-year government alliance with the social democrats, turn to the left and oppose war.

The hate campaign against Russia marks a fundamental reorientation of German foreign policy. Instead of trade, expansion to the East, the traditional thrust of German imperialism, is once again being pushed forward with tanks.

Through its seemingly neutral approach, the film remains merely at the level of observation.

Six weeks into the conflict, the naked imperialist character of the US-NATO war against Russia over Ukraine is emerging ever more clearly.

The Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine has provoked nationalist drum beats around the world. Socialists face huge pressure to side with the capitalist classes of the nations in which they reside, rather than with the global working class. Elsewhere Socialist Alternative has challenged the pre