The Robbery of Nature

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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Rise in Violence on the Front Lines of Environmental Struggle

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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Two Years Since Lytton Destroyed

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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Socialist Alternative Magazine #25

Workers Strike Back! … and much more from Canada and abroad! Our subscription system is ready! You can now subscribe to Socialist Alternative’s magazine for a modest $2 a month or $24 a year and receive each printed issue delivered to your mailbox. With an additional donation, you can become a sustainer of our magazine […]

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NDP Fails in Alberta

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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Review: Marx in the Anthropocene

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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Direct Action Vs Mass Protests?

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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April, The Cruellest Month

Climate change is global. But that doesn’t mean that all parts of the world are affected equally. To be sure, over the years, Canada has had its fair share of climate incidents such as forest fires and floods in Western Canada, hurricanes in the East, summer heat waves across the South, and ice storms in […]

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Fire and Smoke

While Alberta’s deeply divided election rolls on, the province is suffering from fire and smoke. A dry winter and a hot spring have left much of the province tinder dry. The fires, that started in early May, by May 21 have already burnt over 940,000 hectares of land. This is more than any year since […]

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“The Climate Time Bomb is Ticking”

Jonas Brännberg is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). The gap between what needs to be done and what is being done is widening On March 20, the IPCC, the UN’s climate panel, presented a summary report of the last 8 years of climate research. 50,000 scientific reports form the basis of the […]

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