The last few years have been marked by the acceleration of the ecological, agricultural, and oceanic devastation brought on by climate change. In August of 2022, Pakistan suffered a wave of devastating floods that covered a third of the country in water and destroyed over two million homes along with over four million acres of […]
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the climactic battle in the long simmering “War in the Woods” in Clayoquot Sound. On March 12, 1993, protesters stormed the legislature building to demand that the BC NDP fulfill their election promise to protect what was — even back then — some of BC’s last remaining old […]
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“I was manhandled by RCMP officers, my ceremonial dress, which has never been defiled since my grandfather’s time, will never be the same again.” These words by Chief Na’Moks, Hereditary Chief of Wet’suwet’en, express the outrage at the RCMP’s actions at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of RBC, held on April 5 in Saskatoon. Indigenous […]
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“The list of failures grows longer yet again.” Plain speaking from Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment. Jerry DeMarco outlined some of the government’s failings in reporting on April 26. The government is not measuring if its policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are working. It is not on track to meet its goal to plant […]
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Report of the discussion on World Perspectives at ISA’s 2023 World Congress Climate disasters, raging inflation and the threat of a world recession. A brutal war in Ukraine and rising global tensions. Three years of COVID with health systems teetering on the breaking points. Political polarization and unstable governments. The ruling class looks to the […]
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Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Thousands of people in East Palestine, Ohio were told it was safe to return home after a Norfolk Southern train derailment left their town covered in a heavy toxic smoke and flames, and coated in highly flammable chemicals. But far from returning to the […]
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Danny Byrne is a member of ISA’s International Executive. Report from International Socialist Alternative’s World Congress — further reports to follow Between January 30 and February 5, over 100 delegates and visitors participated in International Socialist Alternative’s 13th World Congress. Participants hailed from over 30 countries, across all continents. Most delegates participated in person, gathering […]
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Conny Dahmen and Claus Ludwig are membersof Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). The police and government are trying to spread fairy tales about alleged violence of the 35,000 strong demonstrators against lignite mining near the village of Luetzerath, in western Germany. But everyone can see on Youtube that the perpetrators of violence wore uniforms. In […]
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Chris Stewart and Keishia Taylor are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Marx’s theory that capitalism created a “metabolic rift” between human society and nature has re-emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding the climate crisis we face today. In recent years millions of young and working-class people have engaged in protests against […]
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Julien Daigneault and Hubert Grenon are members of Alternative Socialiste (ISA in Quebec). Bill Hopwood is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. Humans “with flesh, blood, and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst.” Engels Life on earth is in the midst of the “sixth mass extinction.” One in ten plants and animals […]
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