February 21, 2025 marked 60 years since the assassination of Malcolm X. As he took to the stage for a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, the legendary minister and Black activist was gunned down in cold blood by three men, who shot him 21 times as his wife and daughters watched […]
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By March 22, 2025, more than 2,000 employees will lose their jobs following Amazon’s decision to close its seven warehouses in Quebec. This decision will lead to the direct or indirect loss of over 4,500 jobs related to the company’s operations. It comes at a time when Amazon was about to be forced into its […]
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Update: March 1 Unsurprisingly Doug Ford won his third election. All the campaigning and voting resulted in very little change. With the results in a few seats likely to go to a recount, Ford’s conservatives increased their share of the vote slightly to 43 percent, compared to the last election 2022 but their number of […]
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8.8% of the votes and 30,000 new members — what way forward? In Sunday’s Federal elections (February 23), the Left Party entered powerfully into the Bundestag (German national parliament), after being at 3% in the polls just two months ago. It has become a party of big cities, young people and women. It is the […]
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A left-wing alternative to the two sides in dispute, based on a anti-imperialism, class struggle and socialism is urgently needed In power since 2013, Nicolás Maduro took office on 10 January for his third term as president of Venezuela. The inauguration took place despite the fact that Venezuela’s National Electoral Council had still not effectively […]
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A dramatic turning point in historic inter-imperialist conflict Most people will remember that Donald Trump spent 2024 promising to end the war in Ukraine within “24 hours” of taking office, at times going further with the claim that he would end the fighting “before I even become president”. After almost four weeks in power (at […]
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Growing Repression Against Protesters and Activists Daniel Akande Since May 29, 2023, the inception of the Tinubu regime has been marked by relentless attacks on the working masses and dissenting voices in various forms—political, economic, and physical. The regime’s methods include the illegal abduction, arrest, detention, and imprisonment of dissenters, among them journalists, human rights […]
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Shockwaves sent through world capitalism The punitive tariffs announced by President-elect Donald Trump, 25 percent on all steel and aluminum imports along the paused tariffs against Canada and Mexico and the new tariffs on Chinese goods are a dramatic escalation of the global trade war. It is clear that the Trump administration is increasingly prepared […]
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“Strong man” rule is spreading in this period of capitalist nationalism and militarism. Orban in Hungary, Yoon in South Korea, Erdogan in Turkey and now of course, above all Donald Trump wield state power in their own interests, undermining and directly jettisoning “democratic” norms, without consultation with parties or parliament. France from 1848 to 1852, […]
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