No to Corporate Profiteering Socialist Alternative Canada joins organizations across Canada and the US in calling for the big banks to divest from the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline. Supporters and allies of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs have called for the December 20th Week of Action to #DefundCoastalGasLink. In 2020, 27 banks from around the world […]
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James McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Amazon has announced it will establish a Data Centre in Calgary, news much welcomed by politicians as a job creator and sign of a tech future for Calgary. No reality check of the huge use of electricity or water, both issues in Calgary. […]
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Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The World Inequality Report (WIR), produced by 100 researchers over four years, shows the incredible and increasing disparities that exist in global income and wealth. The capitalist system is a crooked casino. Its inherent contradictions (including extreme inequality) produce recurring crises for which […]
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This is a statement by ISA’ International Women’s Bureau and ROSA International. 2021 has been another year of struggle against sexism, LGBTQ-phobia and racism, including mass protests and strikes, inspiring examples of solidarity being built amongst workers of all genders. At the Mercedes plant in the Basque Country, there was a strike of 3500 workers […]
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Paramedics face crises everyday as a basic part of their job. In British Columbia, they are also facing entirely avoidable crises of understaffing, low pay, and burnout. All of this was cruelly exposed in the summer heat dome, with soaring distress calls, long waits for ambulances and unnecessary deaths. It wasn’t always this way. BC’s […]
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Southern British Columbia has been hit by two catastrophic weather events in a few months. First was heat and fire, now rain and floods. On November 13 and 14, the skies opened as an “atmospheric river” flowed across much of southern BC, resulting in overflowing rivers, landslides, mud slides, and ruptured railways and highways. This […]
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Marie O’Toole is on ISA’s COP26 organizing team. Monumental failure,” “Empty words, no action”’ and “Utter betrayal” are just some of the words used to describe the outcome of COP26. To save the climate capitalism needs to be ended. ISA was in Glasgow to build an organisation capable of organising a change to a socialist […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). After two weeks, 30,000 delegates, observers and lobbyists are concluding the Global Summit COP26 in Glasgow. The result — empty promises and inaction. The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is a “global greenwash festival and a failure,” said Greta Thunberg when she spoke at […]
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After the millions of Covid-19 deaths, the climate crisis has brought additional death tolls last summer. Floods, forest fires and other extreme weather events dominated the news. To force real action we need to take to the streets! Indigenous women are showing us the way, marching in their thousands through Brazil’s capital on 10 September […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. As International Socialist Alternative stated earlier this year, the predictions for a roaring economic recovery by capitalist institutions like the IMF were based on overly optimistic assumptions. The latest crisis affects the supply chains. Over 100 container ships unable to unload in the Port […]
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