Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). All this week of the COP 26 in Glasgow, Socialist Alternative will have articles on the issues at stake. The existential threat of the climate crisis has never been more obvious or more urgent. The 2021 IPCC report has confirmed that we are […]
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Sam Belton is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Levels of CO2in the atmosphere are now 50 percent higher than at the onset of capitalist industry in the 1800s. Without urgent action, it will be 100 percent higher by 2060. At this point, the latest IPCC report predicts that the earth’s surface […]
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On October 8, after once again University of Saskatchewan campus security failed to protect a female student from being sexually assaulted, students held a rally in Nobel Plaza holding signs such as “Silence is Violence,” “Stop Victim Blaming,” and “Consent is a Basic Human Right.” Despite the solidarity shown among Caucasian, Indigenous and Transgender students, […]
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The BC Supreme Court made news in September by deciding not to extend an injunction against old-growth logging protesters at the Fair Creek watershed. This would have ended the ongoing RCMP enforcement of the injunction, had the BC Court of Appeal not granted a temporary injunction about a week later. Protesters have been in the […]
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Lucy Redler is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). Lucy Redler ran for office as a direct candidate for the Left Party in the Neukölln electoral district of Berlin. She is a member of the Left Party, the Anticapitalist Left movement within the Left Party (Antikapitalistische Linke or AKL in German), and the […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The latest batch of Pandora papers published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveal a sickening saga of corruption, fraud and outright greed by the world’s elite, that make pale by comparison all the disease, misery and death that spilled out when the […]
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Socialism for a green future Youth: The Soundtrack of Late Capitalism Ontario Alberta: Drive Kenny Out! Protect Indigenous Land COVID Vaccine Nationalism = Misery Interview with Kshama Sawant Canada’s Role in Haiti’s Misery Socialism Needed … and more from Canada and the World! For printed copy(ies) send an e-mail to [email protected] Please consider making a […]
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Nina Wurz is a union Carpenter in Seattle. “We Need a Good Contract AND Rent Control” Below is the text of a speech delivered by union carpenter Nina Wurz at the Sept. 18, 2021 “Rent Control Now” rally! I’m a 33 year old queer journeyman carpenter out of Local 30, but my number one title […]
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Important Victory in an Ongoing Battle On Tuesday September 7, in the midst of a series of demonstrations by the Mexican ultra-right – a staunch enemy of women’s rights – the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation took a historic step with the ruling that declared the criminalization of abortion unconstitutional under the state […]
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“The twenty year occupation of Afghanistan by US and allied forces has been a disaster for those living in the country. At least a quarter of a million people, both combatants and civilians, have been killed, probably many more. Corruption is rife from the head of government down through the police, the army and courts. […]
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