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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Alienation and Capitalism

We are publishing a pair of articles from our current magazine on Solidarity and Alienation, that go together well. Alienation is a defining feature of our epoch that Marx wrote about near the beginning of the industrial era. We are social animals and alienation goes against the very nature of our being. Marx described how […]

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Solidarity: The Heart of the Working Class

We are publishing a pair of articles from our current magazine on Solidarity and Alienation, that go together well. “We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old,Solidarity forever.” The experience of solidarity is familiar to every working person. Solidarity is the unexpected help from a friend you didn’t know […]

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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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What Happened to China’s Economic Rebound?

Guizhou province’s distress signal opens new front in country’s debt meltdown. China’s economy suffered a disastrous 2022. Xi Jinping, months into his unprecedented third term as absolute ruler, is therefore desperate for an economic rebound to dispel the gloom that grips the Chinese and global capitalists and restore “confidence.” Earlier this year, global capitalism had […]

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