The 1970 Earth Day provides us valuable lessons for the fight against climate change today, including how mass movements of ordinary people force change from below. The mass teach-ins—which involved millions from all sections of society—show the type of movement we need now. The world is on fire and Trump and the billionaires are taking […]
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Mass Struggle for Trans Liberation and Socialism Needed! We can’t rely on the courts or the parties of the political establishment to defend our rights. Fighting the results of this transphobic ruling falls down to us. The recent ruling from the UK Supreme Court that the terms ‘legal’ and ‘sex’ in the Equalities Act refer […]
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Across the country, an anti-Trump movement is finally beginning to pick up speed and coalesce. Young people in many major cities have held weekly protests against Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza and the state kidnappings of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk and other immigrant students by ICE. In mid-March, the Federal Unionists Network—a rank-and-file grouping of […]
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Stand with Dockworkers Union vice-president fired for organizing a blockade against arms deliveries to and from Israel! Louise Strömbäck and Jonas Brännberg, The Dockworkers’ Union’s vice president Erik Helgeson has been fired from his job at Gothenburg Roro Terminals (GRT), after he was involved in organizing a blockade in February against arms deliveries to and […]
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A socialist candidate came first with over 51 percent of all the votes in Vancouver’s recent byelection. This clearly shows that people are looking for real change. On Saturday, April 5, Vancouver went to the polls to elect two councillors to replace two who had resigned. The campaign was dominated by two issues — the […]
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Not surprisingly, the Liberal’s new leader, Mark Carney, has called the federal election for April 28. The Liberal’s sense is that they can win. At the end of January Poilievre and the Conservatives seemed to be coasting to a landslide victory. Two months later it is now the Liberals who appear to be heading to […]
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by a member of Socialist Struggle Movement, Israel/Palestine The ceasefire was violated in a massacre planned and coordinated with the Trump administration. Returned abductees and their families are angry and anxious about the fate of the remaining abductees. Organize to fight against the renewal of the war of extermination. A widespread massacre in the Gaza […]
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While crisis and recession are common under capitalism, the contours of global capitalism have changed dramatically since 2008. There’s a real danger that in this new era of imperialist conflict, things could spiral completely out of control. The old neoliberal globalized order is falling apart, but this doesn’t mean it’s being replaced with anything better. […]
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Rebuild and escalate the global movement against genocidal war and imperialism. Netanyahu’s far-right government, with the full support of Trump, has broken the fragile ceasefire and resumed the Israeli military’s genocidal war on Gaza. In the early morning of Tuesday, 18 March, over 400 people were reported killed by massive bombing raids, many of them […]
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