Sonja Grusch is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). This article is based on an introductory speech at the ISA Virtual Marxist University in July 2020. The background to the discussion and to the period we are in is the deep structural crisis of capitalism, that is the world recession, triggered and accelerated […]
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Elliot Bartz is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. California Wildfires: A Socialist Perspective A thick pall of smoke covers the west coast from Mexico to Canada and is spreading across North America and far out into the Pacific Ocean, with serious health consequences for millions of people. The world is burning, with […]
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Peter Delsing is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Defence of democratic socialist planning a fundamental task for successful social transformation This article is based on an introductory speech given to a commission on “Marxist economics — How would a planned economy work?” at ISA’s Virtual Marxist University in […]
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After a pause due to COVID restrictions, Socialist Alternative has produced a new 20-page bumper issue. For Socialist Reconstruction Canada “Reopens” to Uncertain Future For Climate and Jobs The Pandemic for Women’s Oppression The Dire State of Canadian Youth Police: A Tool of the Capitalist State Against Indigenous Peoples Capitalism Made COVID Disaster Kenny’s Attack […]
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Written by a shop steward in a pharmaceutical company and member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are made worse by the contradictions in the capitalist production system, but it is also a factor that exacerbates the same contradictions. The tools that are […]
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No to nationalism, no to war, no to Natural Gas drillings! The discovery of hydrocarbon deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean seabed adds another factor to the competition between the ruling classes of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. Today’s crisis, which has been going on for months, is the worst since the 1974 war, both in terms […]
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Tim Heffernan and Martin LeBrun are Ontario and BC educators. They say that school days are the best days of our lives. This may be debatable at the best of times. But as the topic of this year’s return to school dominates media and family discussions, one thing is certain: everything is uncertain. With the […]
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In 1967 the Boxtops sang “Give me a ticket for an aeroplane, ain’t got time to take a fast train.” 53 years later in the Canada of COVID-19, the chances of going anywhere, whether by plane or train or even long-distance bus, are severely limited. Even before COVID, Canada’s transportation system between towns and cities […]
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Christian Pistor is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). The Urgent Need for System Change 2020 is set to be either the hottest or second hottest year on record. As such the five hottest years on record will all have occurred since 2010. So far total global […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. India is caught in a perfect storm of crisis, facing its worst public health catastrophe since independence, an unprecedented economic downturn, and the most serious conflict with neighboring China in more than fifty years. India confirmed its first Covid-19 case on January 30. The deeply reactionary, […]
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