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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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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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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How things have changed. The orthodox views of a few years ago are now out the window. Until recently most mainstream economists argued that governments should get out of the way to allow private capitalists to invest in major projects and that profits were the “reward” for taking risks. Now, for many construction projects, the […]
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While workers pay through the nose for shortages stemming from Trump’s war on Iran, his billionaire friends are gambling trillions on the AI bubble. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has outraced Anthropic and OpenAI to be the first AI giant on the stock market, in the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history. Musk had restructured SpaceX […]
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This is the fourth World Perspectives statement produced by ISA since the inauguration of Donald Trump’s second presidency. This is based on a recent discussion n of ISA’s International Committee. The last, published on 12 February, commented on where his 2026 US imperialist offensive could lead to next: “Following his successful decapitation and subjugation of […]
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Record Youth Unemployment, Worsening Property Crash and Consumption Slump Over the past few years, the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship and the bourgeois media have repeatedly claimed that “a recovery is on the way,” but the reality is quite the opposite: the economic downturn in China is a comprehensive economic and social crisis. Very high youth […]
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The following article is an introduction to Vladimir Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism which was republished by Socialist Alternative England, Wales and Scotland in 2025. While there have been a number of significant global developments since this introduction was written – including the current US-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon and Trump’s offensive […]
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