Tony Gong is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. What Does ChatGPT Mean For Workers? The AI threat to livelihoods is spurring a growing anti-AI mood to resist automation. However, the conflict is not between AI and humans, but between workers and the bosses who use AI to exploit workers harder, deskill their […]
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Julie Walton is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). DP Canada is one of the major port companies refusing to negotiate with the ILWU in BC. They are owned by DP World, a Dubai based company that made profits before taxes, etc of $5 billion in 20022. In March of that year, […]
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Written by Socialist Alternative members in solidarity on the picket line. At 8 am on Saturday, July 1, BC’s ports went quiet as longshore workers (ILWU) started their strike. They had voted 99.24 percent in favour of action, a powerful statement of intent. 7,400 workers are on strike. The previous contract had expired on March […]
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It’s been two long years. On June 30, 2021, the lives of people in Lytton, BC were changed forever, when fire swept through their community, devastating the entire village: city hall, the police station, the fire hall, two museums and the entire seven blocks of the commercial district. Almost every house was destroyed. Less than […]
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Build A Militant Movement for Liberation This Pride month LGBTQ+ people are facing an avalanche of attacks on our basic rights. From the brutal murder of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey in Britain to the hundreds of anti-trans bills introduced across the US, it feels like we’re facing an attack on our very existence. This wave […]
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This is a statement of the Executive Committee of Socialist Alternative in the US. Fight The Right & The Billionaire Class In 2024 On June 5, activist and professor Cornel West declared an independent left challenge for the US presidency in 2024. His announcement has already drawn widespread media coverage and his campaign launch video […]
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Ollie Bell is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Greyson Van Arsdale is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Despite the increased awareness and visibility of the transgender community over the last few years, there has been a huge backlash against trans people and attacks on their rights. An ongoing […]
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Just over a year ago, the NDP was in front of the United Conservative Party (UCP) in every opinion poll, with an average lead of over 10 percent. Yet on May 29, the UCP won a majority of the votes (52.6 percent), and seats in the poll that matters: Alberta’s election. In 2020 and 2021 […]
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Chris Stewart is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). A new book by Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito has been an unlikely bestseller in Japan, selling more than half a million copies since its 2020 release. Saito’s unambiguous message that capitalism is to blame for the environmental crisis and that we must overthrow […]
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