As the Chinese New Year approaches, China is again the epicentre of the global pandemic. Despite a total information blackout, it is clear the country is experiencing an explosive spread of the virus after suddenly abandoning its three-year Zero COVID policy of hardline controls. This has been replaced by a chaotic “laissez-faire” position of minimal state […]
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Arno is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). On Thursday, January 20, millions of French workers were on strike with tens of thousands on marches as workers reject the Macron’s government attack on pensions. As announced during the presidential campaign, the Macron government has launched its pension […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This article was originally published by The Stranger. This is now the tenth year I’ve had the honor to serve as an elected representative of Seattle’s working people. Workers in Seattle, through getting organized alongside my socialist City Council office, and my organization, Socialist […]
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On Saturday, January 14, members of Socialist Alternative joined four hundred supporters of Drag Queen Story Time at Coquitlam Public Library. All were there to reject discrimination and in favour of choice. This was the second time the library hosted a Drag Story Time event in support of accessible, diverse, and culturally-inclusive family programming. However, […]
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Just-in-time production was a key part of the process of neoliberalism and globalization, as part of the drive to maximize profits. First used in Japan in the 1970s, it spread around the world and beyond manufacture to almost every facet of capitalist economics and management systems. The core idea is that manufacturers do not hold […]
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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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For thousands of years Pacific salmon, in their bounty, provided plentiful food for the people of the coast. Many described themselves as “Salmon People.” After living in the ocean for several years, the salmon return to their rivers of birth to swim upstream to the gravel beds to spawn and die. Along the way, overcoming […]
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This article is republished from the archives of ISA. Increasingly commentators say that the strike wave affecting several countries, and the level of inflation eating away at workers’ wages are reminiscent of the 1970s. We republish an article from 1971 by Ted Grant, then a member of the CWI — predecessor of ISA. The Tory […]
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Philip Chmel is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). How to Fight Back to Win At the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, the world’s ruling elites showed once again that they are absolutely incapable of protecting humanity and this planet from the climate catastrophe […]
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