James Clement is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Genpatsu Iranai, Saikado Hantai! — We Don’t Need Nuclear Power, Oppose the Restarting of the Plants! That’s the call raised by many Japanese workers and youth following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster 10 years ago on March 11. Ten years ago this month […]
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The Braided Warriors, “Indigenous youth in səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territories defending the land and the people from capitalist colonial violence,” picked a good target in AIG Canada, “a transnational finance and insurance company that is insuring the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline in violation of Indigenous rights.” Make a credible threat to the profits, […]
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Young Indian climate activist Disha Ravi was arrested by the police at her home in Bangalore on 13 February. She was transferred to a cell in the capital Delhi. The reason for the arrest was her alleged involvement in a solidarity appeal by Greta Thunberg and others for the ongoing farmers’ protest in India. The […]
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With contributions from Allie Pev and Sustainabiliteens:Vijay Tupper, Sophie Tang, Lilah Williamson, and Harrison Johnston Young people are set to inherit a ravaged planet, and in response they are more radicalized than ever. In opposition to abortion bans in Poland, against inequalities held over from the Pinochet era in Chile, to defeating of the dictatorship […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Book details: The Return of Nature, John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, 2020 John Bellamy Foster’s ground-breaking Marx’s Ecology in 2000 demonstrated that Marxism, from the beginning, dealt with ecological questions. Its long-awaited sequel, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, developed these […]
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Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Engels’ Struggle for a Dialectical Concept of Nature Seven of the world’s leading climate and so-called Earth System scientists warned last year that the world could be very close to tipping points and even “a cascade of tipping points” that mean that gradual global […]
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Violent and disturbing conflicts between commercial and Mi’kmaw (also written as Mi’kmaq) fishers have been seen around the world. Videos from mid-October show commercial fishers and their supporters swarming lobster facilities, trapping Mi’kmaw fishers inside one, torching a vehicle outside the other. There are images of dumped lobsters on the ground. A few days after […]
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To no one’s surprise the BC New Democrats (NDP) have called a provincial election, which they are highly likely to win. The opposition parties are having little or no impact and, not surprisingly, are criticizing the decision. COVID-19 COVID has dominated people’s thoughts for most of 2020. Up to recently, the NDP was considered to […]
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Including Growing Second Wave and New Closures Even now, nine months since reports of COVID-9 emerged Canada still does not have enough PPE or test kits and tracing is weak. For months, Canadians have been held in the grip of an unprecedented pandemic that has left few people untouched. Canada failed to protect workers and […]
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Elliot Bartz is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. California Wildfires: A Socialist Perspective A thick pall of smoke covers the west coast from Mexico to Canada and is spreading across North America and far out into the Pacific Ocean, with serious health consequences for millions of people. The world is burning, with […]
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