2021: Age of Disorder, Year 2

Danny Byrne is a member of ISA’s International Executive. From beginning to end, 2021 was a year of perfect storm for world capitalism. This rotten and decadent system has rarely, if ever before, faced such deep simultaneous crises on so many fronts. It has never been more over-ripe for replacement, and the 2020s are only […]

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Global Supply Chain Chaos Worsens

Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. As International Socialist Alternative stated earlier this year, the predictions for a roaring economic recovery by capitalist institutions like the IMF were based on overly optimistic assumptions. The latest crisis affects the supply chains. Over 100 container ships unable to unload in the Port […]

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Pandora Papers Reveals a New Wave of Fraud

Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The latest batch of Pandora papers published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveal a sickening saga of corruption, fraud and outright greed by the world’s elite, that make pale by comparison all the disease, misery and death that spilled out when the […]

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Where is the Recovery Going?

Eric Byl is a member of ISA’s International Executive. The spectre of inflation is threatening a new crisis There is much to say about the so-called “post-pandemic” economic rebound. The figures look impressive, but warnings are manifold. New heights in inequality between rich and poor are pouring petrol on existing social tensions, and producing new […]

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A Shorter Working Week

Getting Off the Treadmill “Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living Barely getting by, it’s all taking and no giving They just use your mind, and they never give you credit It’s enough to drive you crazy if you let it.”  Dolly Parton, “9 to 5,” 1980 It will come as […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #18

The newest issue of our magazine Socialist Alternative is now published. Stolen Lives Stolen Land Alberta’s Misery Continues Slashing Cuts in Newfoundland and Labrador Ontario Education Shambles UniteHere! The Struggle Continues Fight For Sick Pay: Join a Union! Life of a Grocery Worker “Can’t Have Capitalism without Racism” The Road to Peace in Israel/Palestine … […]

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Greyhound Left the Station, and Canada

Greyhound has closed all its services across Canada. In 2018, it announced the closure of all its services in Western Canada and the federal government did nothing. This was a criminally missed opportunity to take over the entire, already-existing, Canada-wide bus network. Will they fail again this time? The loss of Greyhound leaves hundreds of […]

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Rogers-Shaw Merger: Monopoly and High Prices

For decades now the Canadian telecommunications industry has been an oligopoly of “the big three,” Rogers, Telus, and Bell. These three companies each have over ten million subscribers and own essentially all of the infrastructure in the country. The next largest competitor, Shaw, has less than two million subscribers. But recently, Rogers announced that it […]

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