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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Pedro Meade is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). As we know, the consequences of the climate catastrophe will affect everyone, but it is poorer and working-class communities, particularly in poorer countries, that will bear the brunt of this disastrous situation. This is a fundamental feature of modern imperialism where major […]
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With passion and anger young people denounced the failures of capitalism and politicians to deal with growing climate disaster. Socialist Alternative Youth (SAY) in Metro Vancouver organized a meeting on Saturday, November 6 in solidarity with the protests at COP26 in Glasgow. To build for the rally, held at Douglas College in New Westminster, over […]
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Philip Chmel is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). The unfolding climate crisis is the clearest sign, among many, that this system has to go. “The World Meteorological Organization reported recently that the climate crisis has spawned extreme weather that has killed more than 2 million people […]
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COP 26 — a summit of World leaders and 30,000 politicians, businessmen, bankers, “green investors” and “green lobbyists” and many other hangers on are expected to be in Glasgow this week to attend the event which is sponsored by an array of multinational corporations in the energy, car, chemical, pharmaceutical and IT sectors. These are […]
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