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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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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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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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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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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