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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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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The NASA-led Artemis II mission is not merely a new chapter in “space exploration.” It represents a new phase in the expansion of imperialism beyond Earth. The Artemis program and its various missions are presented as necessary steps toward establishing a human presence on the Moon and, ultimately, reaching Mars. But just as “exploration” by […]
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On 19 April, Trump posted on Truth Social declaring “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY,” threatening to end the ceasefire and carry out wide-ranging attacks on Iranian infrastructure. Two days later — on the eve of the ceasefire deadline and in the type of walk-back now characteristic of Trump — he announced a one-sided ceasefire extension […]
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We Need Socialist Feminist Resistance It feels like society is being dragged backwards. The footprint of escalating wars seems to cover more of the world every day. A girls school in Minab, Iran was one of the first targets of Trump and Netanyahu’s deadly new war in the Middle East where an estimated 175 people […]
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Since industrialization, women in the workforce have been at the forefront of labour organization, fighting against inequality and gender oppression. Before even gaining the right to vote, they strove for the liberation of all working-class people from capitalism. Dangerous conditions and desperate poverty have pushed women to initiate numerous historic strikes in the textile, garment […]
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