It has been a long wait for public dental care and pharmacare. The Dental Benefit Act was passed in November 2022 and the Canada Pharmacare Act was introduced in February 2024. Unfortunately, both fall far short of what is needed “to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers,” the promise of […]
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The film Dune: Part 2 is an incredible cinematic experience. The Dune series is quickly becoming a cinematic reference in science fiction. But the films, like all art, are a product of their social context. With this in mind, one may ask: how does the Dune series reproduce real-world social relations? How does it defend […]
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India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is taking every possible step to ensure he wins a third term in the general election, which runs from April 19 until June 1. Modi’s party, the BJP, is based on far-right Hindu chauvinism, Hindutva. Modi himself rose to prominence through the fascist inspired Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is […]
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We need a new party! British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, drenched in rain outside Number 10, announced the General Election for July 4. Everyone — Sunak included — knows he is finished. Recent polls have placed Labour on a poll lead of up to 25%. It is quite likely that, knowing his ratings could sink […]
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The University of McGill in Montreal is in the midst of a wave of unionization and militancy not seen for over 50 years. Strikes and actions of unions and student groups have rapidly followed each other on campus over the past few months. The pro-Palestine encampment, which began on April 27, 2024, is the most […]
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Capitalist East and West are both in decline Socialist magazine (ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and our international organisation, ISA, differ with the analysis of most other left organizations who see world imperialist rivalries as largely “multipolar,” with the US in decline (yes, it is) and China rising (no, that is no longer […]
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The Israeli ‘War Cabinet’ unanimously decided to begin the first phase of the Israeli right-wing regime’s catastrophic invasion of Rafah, where the majority of the Palestinian population surviving in the inferno of the Gaza Strip are currently located. Shahar Ben Horin, Yasha Marmer, Socialist Struggle, Israel-Palestine The Israeli ‘War Cabinet’ unanimously decided to begin the […]
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Have you heard about the record-high level of workers’ actions in 2023? Has it been all over the news and social media? No. Big business does not want workers to know that “When You Strike, You Can Win!” Strikes in Canada hit the highest level in 2023 since 1986! The bosses lost 6,631,724 days of […]
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On the night of Tuesday, April 30, hundreds of NYPD officers in full riot gear stormed Columbia University’s campus, home to the first of nearly 100 student protest encampments across the country in solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza. That morning, a group of protestors had initiated an occupation of Hamilton Hall, renamed it […]
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