Per-Åke Westerlund

Dec 16, 2024 | socialistalternative.org | Per-Åke Westerlund

Jubilant crowds on the streets of Damascus have been celebrating what until recently seemed unthinkable—the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s hated regime. The Syrian army collapsed while the regime’s over-burdened allies in Russia and Iran could only look on, hanging their former ally out to dry. The lightning offensive was led by Turkish and US-backed right-wing Islamist forces.

Sep 17, 2024 | socialistalternative.org | Per-Åke Westerlund

The mass struggle in Bangladesh is at a decisive point. A month after the mass movement forced Prime Minister Hasina to resign and go into exile, a confrontation is building up between a rising wave of workers’ strikes and the new government, representing the capitalist owners of multinational businesses.

Apr 9, 2024 | socialistalternative.ca | Anne Engelhardt |Chris Thomas |Per-Åke Westerlund

Crashing economy, vanishing jobs and unpaid wages are forcing workers onto the streets. Jinchuan & Dikang, chinaworker.infoChina’s economy is now in its deepest crisis since the restoration of capitalism. This is also part of an unprecedented crisis of the global capitalist system. Everywhere the crisis inevitably makes class antagonisms more acute as the capitalist class, and regimes like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), shift the main burden onto the working class and the poor.