On May 20, Stuart Kirk, Global Head of Responsible Investments for the mega-bank HSBC (2021 assets $2.9 trillion, 2021 profits $12.6 billion), gave a speech at a Financial Times (ahem) “Moral Money” conference. The talk was titled “Why investors need not worry about climate risk.” Mr. Kirk, whose job with the bank “involves considering the […]
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Steph Lacey is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Watching the Depp / Heard trial play out in court, and the online reaction, will have a troubling impact on all victims of intimate partner violence, of all genders. This is a trial about domestic violence, and it is being used as entertainment, […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Policy coup for capitalist and imperialist interests In an undemocratic, coup-like manner and with the help of a cynical “shock doctrine,” Sweden is to join NATO, a military alliance formed and led by US imperialism. This weekend it became formally clear that the leadership […]
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Walter Chambers is a member of International Socialist Alternative. The war in Ukraine has turned into a war of brutal attrition. Only workers’ solidarity can end it. The Kremlin was hoping for a double celebration on May 9: to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in WW2, and the jubilant return of troops after a short […]
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Gas prices have soared around the world, adding to inflation that is hitting workers’ living standards. Vancouver, like its overinflated housing market, has Canada’s highest gas prices. The price of gas in Vancouver rose from $1.60 a litre in December 2021 to $2 a litre in March and over $2.30 in May. In most of […]
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Liberals Plan to Boost Climate Change The federal Liberals’ decision to give the go-ahead to a major new oil field off the coast of Newfoundland shows their climate change policies are a dangerous fraud. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states the world faces a “now or never” time […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Article after article in the mainstream corporate media in recent weeks has stated that the war in Ukraine has accelerated a radical realignment in the world economy that is termed “deglobalization.” Martin Wolf, the chief economics editor of the Financial Times stated recently that […]
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Greyson Van Arsdale is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The evening of May 3, thousands of protesters gathered in cities across the country to protest the leaked draft decision by the Supreme Court which would strike down Roe v. Wade. The Court is set to rule early this summer, giving the movement […]
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Climate change is the foremost political issue on young people’s minds. We are the ones who will live with the full horrors of climate change and environmental degradation unless the world changes course. Yet, we see nearly everyone in a position of power acknowledges the crisis but does next to nothing to solve it and […]
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