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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With a stroke of the pen, Carney illuminated his party’s position on the growing climate disaster. His signature on the MOU erased any illusions (not that Socialist Alternative had any) that the Liberal Party is serious about reducing emissions and averting climate catastrophe. It made clear where its allegiances lie: with big business and big […]
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Brazil’s Lula government had announced COP30 in Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon River, as a summit of “truth” and “implementation.” It turned out instead to be both an expected and a sad fiasco. Astoundingly, the UN-led climate negotiations failed to even manage to mention fossil fuels by name as the cause of 75 […]
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Mark Carney’s Liberals won the election promising to stand up to Trump and his tariffs and threats to make Canada the 51st state. In office, Carney dropped the “elbows up” approach; instead, he is appeasing Trump. The Liberals have scrapped almost all tariffs on US imports. They agreed to join the “Golden Dome,” a space-based […]
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Imperialism and the quest for global hegemony is behind the rare earth battle Rare earth elements are considered China’s most powerful trump card in the US-China imperialist trade war. They are essential in the manufacture of advanced medical equipment, cell phones and AI chips. Most importantly for the capitalists, the world’s biggest growth industry – […]
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With every tenth of a degree of additional warming, the probability of passing a tipping point increases. A major new review conducted by the scientific laboratory at Germany’s The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in collaboration with researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Centre claims that ocean acidification has now exceeded critical thresholds for the […]
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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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Sammy Albright is a member of Socialist Alternative US From devastating floods in Texas to the threat of escalating war in the Middle East, every day brings a new reminder of how urgently we need to stop the billionaires from destroying the planet. Imagine if we utilized the skills of workers in polluting and war […]
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Arne Johansson is a member of Socialistisk Alternative (ISA in Sweden) At the same time, according to a new UN report, more than 90 million people in eastern and southern Africa are suffering from extreme hunger after record droughts with widespread crop failures and livestock deaths. While the world’s capitalist rulers focus on war, military […]
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