Per-Åke Westerlund and Vincent Kolo are members of ISA’s International Political Committee On 14-15 May, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the leaders of the two major imperialist powers, met in Beijing. This was the “stalemate summit” as some media described it, high on ceremony but almost wholly lacking in concrete results. Trump described the meeting […]
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Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland The devastation caused by US imperialism’s war on Iran has been widely documented. The independent Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency estimates that as many as 3,636 have been killed there, and in Lebanon, the death toll from the Israeli regime’s ongoing […]
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Anna Barret is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US After five weeks of all-out war on Iran and seven weeks of a very fragile ceasefire, yet another round of talks is taking place between the US and Iran. Whether the result is a deal or a new round of war (or yet more […]
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Indigenous title is not a relic of the past, but a living and continuing reality. The recent Cowichan Tribes V. Canada decision affirmed this and, in the process, provoked a storm of confusion, fear and protest. In the wake of the longest court case in Canadian history, BC’s NDP leader David Eby said he was […]
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Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) leader, Danielle Smith, has been playing to her conservative populist base since her 2022 election. She campaigned for the Alberta Sovereignty Act, which authorizes provincial institutions to not enforce federal laws that “attack Alberta’s interests.” She introduced privatized healthcare, suspended funding for renewable energy projects, signed an agreement with the […]
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“In the chaos that is headed our way, more voters may be willing to give the NDP a look than is presently accounted for.” Prominent conservative commentator, Andrew Coyne, wrote this after Avi Lewis clearly won the NDP leadership. Coyne has a better understanding of the turmoil ahead than many NDP bureaucrats. For now, Carney […]
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As Carney races to “build baby build,” trades workers are clearly the essential labour force government and big business need to construct mines, fossil fuel expansions, and other resource infrastructure. But while this work may provide high-paying short-term jobs, trades workers are paying a higher price in an industry plagued by addiction and suicide. According […]
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How Can Workers Fight Back? Just under a year ago, John Healey, Labour’s Defence Secretary in Britain, visited a munitions factory. There, he made a speech extolling the virtues of a dawning new era of “military Keynesianism.” Slashing overseas aid budgets and “reinforcing the British industrial base” would lead to “more jobs in every part […]
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The general strike of May 1926 didn’t fall from a clear blue sky; the conditions for it had been ripening over decades. The situation had come near to general strikes in 1919, 1921 and 1925. The British economy was on its knees following World War I, with the capitalists making workers pay for their crisis. […]
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Soccer has always been celebrated as a working-class sport. Played in streets, parks and schoolyards, all that’s needed is a ball. But the Canadian working class will pay a heavy price for the FIFA World Cup 2026, while corporations and the wealthy benefit. The huge, 104-game tournament is set to be the most profitable sporting […]
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