The roller coaster of Canada – US relations continues. The breakdown of trade talks spells more turmoil and uncertainty. Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on $28 billion of trade are estimated to hit around 90,000 jobs and push the sluggish economy back towards recession. The Canadian government responded with equal tariffs on $28 billion of imports […]
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We Won’t Be Intimidated Defend The Minnesota 15! After ICE invaded Minnesota with 4,000 agents last winter, the Twin Cities working class responded with a mass movement of rapid response networks and a 350,000-strong citywide general strike. It remains the high point of struggle so far under Trump’s second term and forced the wannabe dictator’s […]
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Working people may wonder if they will ever understand economics: the stock market soaring while most people are struggling, the scale of the AI data center boom, inflation off again and on again. Despite its legion of experts, capitalist economics, unlike Marxism, claims no single unifying theory. So, it is natural that it seems to […]
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Face reality! That must be the starting point for anyone who wants a world conducive to humanity. Almost all the present technology – from food production to housing – and infrastructure were developed to suit global climates and ecologies that are rapidly disappearing. The earth, in its long history, has seen dramatic changes in landscape, […]
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The student-led protests in India secured a major victory when their main target, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, resigned on Saturday (25 July). His resignation is a major setback for the reactionary Hindu nationalist BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, the struggle must continue. “His resignation is only the first step”, as it […]
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This document is the product of intensive discussion by members of Socialist Alternative Canada over several months. These contributed to a draft prepared by the National Committee that was discussed at our annual in-person meeting in April. It was then revised based on that discussion.
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Top Chinese economist’s speech reveals growing alarm as economic crisis deepens China’s real unemployment rate is 10.2% according to a top Chinese economist. That’s double the official rate – currently just 5% – claimed by the CCP regime. A rate of 10 percent adds up to around 48 million people out of work – more […]
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Lessons for Fighting the Far Right Today This July we commemorate the 90th anniversary of the revolutionary workers’ uprising in Spain against the fascist military coup of July 17, 1936, led by General Franco. This was one of the most powerful working-class movements in history, which, in just a few days, took control of Catalonia, […]
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In the media we are bombarded with endless warnings about the “bond markets.” But despite the ominous-sounding headlines about rising yields, or Andy Burnham’s call for Britain to stop being “in hock” to them, it is rarely explained what the bond market actually is, or why it matters. The ups and downs of the markets […]
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Resistance to AI Data centres is spreading across Canada too from Hamilton, Ontario, to Olds, Alberta, and Vancouver, BC. We will have an article soon on Canadian opposition. Saline Township, Michigan has just a few thousand residents, most of whom were extremely concerned when OpenAI and Oracle announced plans to build a massive $16 billion […]
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