Workers Rising! Youth demand Socialism Alberta Toronto Rent Strikes Manitoba Election Fighting Caste Oppression Life of a Student What Makes Me Angry Women’s Safety Chile 1970 – 73, Revolution and Reaction US: Workers Strike Back Capitalism’s New Cold War BC Solidarity 1983: A Near Revolution Housing Emergency Capitalism’s Highway to Hell … and more from […]
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A joint investigative report in July from the Toronto Star and The Narwhal concluded that “Ontario developers have spent nearly $173 million scooping up hundreds of acres in the former Greenbelt this summer, months after the Ford government reneged on its promise to protect the environmentally sensitive land.” Why is the Greenbelt so important? The […]
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Oisen Hill is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). “The ocean is hotter than ever, what happens next?”begins a news article published in May of this year by Nature, the world’s leading scientific journal. 2023 has seen the ocean’s surface temperature rise to its highest since records began, leading to marine heatwaves […]
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Chris Stewart is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland), Bill Hopwood is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, 2020, Monthly Review Capitalist production…only develops … by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the worker. Marx, Capital The Robbery of Nature […]
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Pedro Meade and Ana Vitoria are members of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). Armed groups, criminal organizations and even state forces use lethal violence to silence any resistance to environmental destruction. As we are seeing, climate crises are intensifying. Wildfires of unprecedented proportions are raging in Canada, there are historic droughts in Argentina, […]
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It’s been two long years. On June 30, 2021, the lives of people in Lytton, BC were changed forever, when fire swept through their community, devastating the entire village: city hall, the police station, the fire hall, two museums and the entire seven blocks of the commercial district. Almost every house was destroyed. Less than […]
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Just over a year ago, the NDP was in front of the United Conservative Party (UCP) in every opinion poll, with an average lead of over 10 percent. Yet on May 29, the UCP won a majority of the votes (52.6 percent), and seats in the poll that matters: Alberta’s election. In 2020 and 2021 […]
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Chris Stewart is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). A new book by Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito has been an unlikely bestseller in Japan, selling more than half a million copies since its 2020 release. Saito’s unambiguous message that capitalism is to blame for the environmental crisis and that we must overthrow […]
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Connor Rosoman is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Philip Chmel is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). What Way Forward in the Fight Capitalism’s Climate Destruction In the light of exacerbating climate crisis and absolute inaction of capitalist governments, the climate movement is testing out and adapting its tactics […]
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