Nicolas Croes is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). “Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems. (…) Humans cannot.” The verdict is hard. It is in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) interim summary, […]
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Grace Fors is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Free, Safe, and Legal Abortion Now! Virtually overnight, abortion is banned in Texas. Every one of the already-scarce clinics in the state has halted abortion services. Neighboring states like Louisiana and Arkansas are already seeing an increase in abortion patients from Texas. Millions of women are […]
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Renovictions, when landlords feign the need for renovations to evict tenants and jack up the rent, are a fundamental part of why housing is so unaffordable in Canada. Regulations governing rent increases vary from province to province, and the pandemic has brought some temporary rent freezes. In non-pandemic times, BC, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia […]
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Dariya Kozhonova is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). They Must Once Again Become the Lungs of the Planet, Not Its Exhaust Pipe. The Siberian fires alone are bigger than those currently burning in the rest of the world combined. The front that firefighters have to fight is over 2000 kilometers long. Wildfires […]
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Eric Byl is a member of ISA’s International Executive. The spectre of inflation is threatening a new crisis There is much to say about the so-called “post-pandemic” economic rebound. The figures look impressive, but warnings are manifold. New heights in inequality between rich and poor are pouring petrol on existing social tensions, and producing new […]
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Resistance Will Grow! Of all the setbacks for women and workers in the world over the past year, this is among the worst. Imperialism has ensured that one of the most oppressive regimes against women ever, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan based on pure gender apartheid, is back. As the Taliban are preparing to establish […]
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Robert Bielecki is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Fight for a Socialist Alternative! The new IPCC climate report is vital, but flawed in one crucial respect: the problem is not “humanity” – it’s capitalism! The new major climate report from the UN’s climate panel, IPCC, is a devastating indictment of the world’s […]
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BREAKING NEWS: On August 10, the HKPTU leaders formally disbanded the union, which was founded in 1973. This disastrous state of affairs was unfortunately already clear, as our report says, from the union leadership’s previous capitulation to the outrageous attacks and smears of the government. This further underlines the urgent need for a completely new […]
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Getting Off the Treadmill “Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living Barely getting by, it’s all taking and no giving They just use your mind, and they never give you credit It’s enough to drive you crazy if you let it.” Dolly Parton, “9 to 5,” 1980 It will come as […]
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Water shortages have led to nearly a week of desperate protests in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province leaving at least ten dead. One thing is clear, the newly elected “death judge” will not have one calm minute. With a population of 5 million, Khuzestan can be called the “beating heart” of Iran, because it is one […]
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