Questions for the ISA

The world is in turmoil and the workers movement is disoriented. Now more than ever political clarity is crucial. Here are a few basic but fundamental questions that revolutionaries must answer today:

1. Why are so many workers attracted to the far right rather than the left?

2. Why is the Palestinian movement at an impasse?

3. How did the Peoples Republic of China become a capitalist state without a counterrevolution?

4. Was the strike wave a victory?

5. Why is the ISA in crisis?

How does Socialist Alternative answer these questions?

Here is how we answer:

Spart answers

1. The right is gaining ground because the left is seen as part of the status quo. This is because Corbyn and the trade union leaders continuously betray the interests of workers in the illusory hope of appeasing the liberal establishment.

   Read more: “How London liberals fuel the far right”

2. The Palestinian movement in Britain can only progress if it stands in opposition to the Labour government, but its leaders either support Starmer or refuse to break with those who do.

   Read more: “Why Can’t Anyone Stop Netanyahu?”

3. China didn’t become a capitalist state, it is still a deformed workers’ state. The dictatorship of a class cannot change gradually, it must be broken up in a revolution or a counterrevolution.

   Read more: “The Class Nature of China”

4. The strike wave was defeated. Workers are in a worse position than they were two years ago. This is because the union tops—Mick Lynch, Dave Ward, Sharon Graham and Co—refused to organise a showdown with the government…and socialists refused to build an opposition to them.

   Read more: “The strike wave faces defeat — How to rebuild union power”

5. The ISA is in crisis because it seeks to build itself through liberal movements, instead of building movements by breaking them from liberalism.

   Read more: “The Roots of The ISA Crisis”