Interview in 2004 with ISA member Laurence Coates, full-time Militant organizer in Liverpool in the 1980s. It is 40 years since the legendary Militant-led city council was elected to power in Liverpool, then Britain’s fifth largest city. On 5 May, 1983, Labour won the local elections in Liverpool, gaining 12 seats with a 40 percent increase in […]
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The Canadian government is giving Volkswagen Canada (VW) $13 billion to build a massive new electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in St. Thomas, Ontario. This is being hailed as a “game changer” for Canada’s auto sector as the ruling classes of various countries fight to secure investment in a broader and greener economy. Canada’s traditional […]
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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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For an International Socialist Alternative to Capitalist Perma-crisis The working class is back. Since May Day, 2022, there has been an important upturn in the activity of the multiracial, multi-gendered and multigenerational workers’ movement. It has been active in struggles across the world — shaking the regimes of tyrants, defending the most oppressed sections of […]
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Cristina is a member of ISA in Portugal. Education workers rise up against their precarity, bringing 150,000 onto the streets of Lisbon. New unions and methods of struggle appear and stir up the still waters of the established unions. The Decline of Public Education and the Challenges Workers Face Every Day Over the last five […]
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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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Chris Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. How Amazon is Fighting Tooth-and-Nail to Stop Workers From Unionizing Its Biggest Air Hub To Amazon’s corporate suits at their headquarters in Seattle, the KCVG Air Hub in Northern Kentucky is often referred to as the “Death Star.” The massive $1.5 billion facility already […]
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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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Jackie Douglas is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). 125 years ago Eleanor Marx died. She was one of the earliest advocates for the ideas of socialist feminism and internationalism, while working as a trade union organiser with a focus on organising women workers in united struggle with men. Jackie Grunsell, Socialist […]
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Keishia Taylor and Eddie McCabe are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The tech sector is in turmoil — facing its worst crisis since the dot-com bubble burst in the late 1990s. Stock prices are fluctuating wildly, profits are being squeezed, and hundreds of thousands of workers have been laid off. Tech companies […]
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