The hottest place in Canada, Lytton BC, has burned to the ground. The mayor of the small village in the Fraser Canyon said “it would be a miracle if everyone made it out alive.” On the evening of Wednesday, June 30, smoke was spotted, and 15 minutes later a full evacuation order was issued as […]
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Elin Gauffin is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Victory For the Struggle Monday, June 21, 2021 became a historic day in Sweden. For the first time ever, a prime minister has been defeated, after the Riksdag voted in favour of no-confidence. It is the struggle from below against market rents that overthrew […]
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For years, governments have been shovelling rhetoric about commitments to reduce carbon emissions. The most famous is the international commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Yet, emissions have increased by 60% since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in 1992, at the Rio Earth Summit. The Kyoto Protocol and […]
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Marie O’Toole is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. June is LGBTQ Pride month. What started as a celebration of the struggle for LGBTQ rights, Pride has increasingly been taken over by corporate interests. As we honor Pride month this year, transgender people across the country are under attack by a record-breaking wave […]
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The city of Surrey is the second largest in British Columbia, with nearly 600,000 mostly working-class residents. It is home to families from Canada and dozens of other countries and is host to some of the largest multi-ethnic celebrations in Canada, including the massive annual Vaisakhi parade of up to half a million people, a […]
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Grace Fors is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Global Vaccine Inequality Spells Disaster The U.S. is approaching “back to normal.” Millions are vaccinated, the CDC nixed its mask guidelines, and states everywhere are eagerly lifting restrictions in time for summer. But globally, COVID-19 is exploding. Entire regions are wracked with new outbreaks. […]
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George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Video games can be light entertainment or serious art, but they’re also big business. 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V currently stands as the most financially successful entertainment product in history. In recent years, the video game industry has come under increasing scrutiny […]
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Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Global Resistance on the Agenda Recently, the British pro-capitalist journal the Financial Times conducted a survey of more than 1,700 young people, to find out the main concerns and problems facing both Millennials and Generation Zers today. The results were stark but not surprising. When asked […]
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Michael O’Brien is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). It can take the passage of time, years in fact, to have a sense of a particular strike’s place in history. Among trade unionists, socialists, activists, and sometimes the wider working class, disputes such as the six-month-long strike of An Post workers in […]
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Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In an article titled “Understanding the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future,” 17 climate scientists from around the globe state that, “The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms—including humanity—is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even […]
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