The outcome of the NDP leadership race may determine whether the party remains relevant in federal politics. In the 2025 election the NDP only won 7 seats, the worst in its history. Since the federal NDP won 103 seats in the 2011 election, aided by a collapse in both Liberal and Bloc Québécois votes, it […]
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The example of struggle in one country stimulates and influences movements in others In “a world with two predatory super powers” (Martin Wolf, FT 1 October), the key trends of this year have continued since our last World Perspectives update in May. There has been a certain consolidation of Trump’s regime, the genocide in Gaza […]
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Canadian governments want to produce more fossil fuels, even while the country burns. The 2015 United Nations Paris Agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst disasters spurred by climate change. In just nine years, 2024, that benchmark was broken. Around the world heatwaves, fires, floods, […]
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This new bubble underscores the extremely parasitic nature of capitalism and the need for a socialist alternative. Stock markets in the US are reaching record levels led by the “Magnificent Seven” tech giants, with hundreds of billions being invested in new energy and water-hungry datacenters, and trillions more planned. At the same time however, voices […]
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The second of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US (part 1) The TikTok deal – if there will be a deal – is an important element in the wider conflict between Donald Trump’s government and the Chinese regime. Using a military analogy, we can […]
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The first of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US (part 2) A popular meme of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is doing the rounds. Trump tells Xi, “I hold the cards”, and Xi replies, “The cards were made in China”. According to some media […]
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The negotiations that have taken place since April, and earlier, have been characterized by mafia diplomacy. The Trump administration is becoming increasingly authoritarian and threatening—both at home and on the world stage. At the same time, support for Trump is falling and his new budget is unpopular. A majority believe that it will make things […]
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Karl Marx thought that capitalism would be overthrown by the working class, and replaced with a socialist society. But some academics are asking: what if Marx got it wrong? What if capitalism has already died — but rather than socialism, it has been replaced by something resembling feudalism. This raises the question: how do Marxists […]
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In China today the bourgeoisie and the CCP are inseparable. The following is a speech given by ISA member Zhou Yi to a meeting of Chinese Marxists in May 2025. ISA and chinaworker.info describe China and the system led by the so-called Communist Party (CCP) regime as ‘authoritarian state capitalism’. It is different from Western […]
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‘Liberation Day’ nightmare is scaled back for 90 days but what comes next? China and the US have de-escalated their trade war at least for the short term. Talks between the two sides on 10–11 May in Geneva produced a 90-day pause until 10 August from astronomical triple-digit tariffs. Both sides agreed to a 115-percentage […]
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