One can hardly call the Cabinet shuffle involving the departure of Bill Morneau and the promotion of Chrystia Freeland as heralding out with the old and in with the new. Despite alleged policy differences (Trudeau supposedly is a more profligate spender of government money than Morneau), it was more a question of Tweedledum and Tweedledee. […]
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Lynn Walsh is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Eighty Years Since Leon Trotsky’s Assassination An updated version of an article first published by the CWI, predecessor of ISA, in 1980 (The CWI has since been renamed International Socialist Alternative (ISA)) On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal […]
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Workers across the province are facing an uncertain future. Many of us were temporarily laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and under the current Employment Standards Act those layoffs will become permanent and accrued benefits lost unless we are among those “lucky” enough to be called back before 6 months has elapsed. Although some […]
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Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Workers’ Alternative Urgently Needed 2020 is not the election year that anyone expected. Presidential election politics are now utterly intertwined with the global pandemic that has killed nearly 165,000 people in the US as of this writing and has completely altered life for most […]
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August 18, 2020 marks 25 years since the beginning of the largest paramilitary operation in Canadian history. Between August 18 and September 17, 1995, 400 heavily armed RCMP officers, 5 helicopters, 2 surveillance planes and 9 military-loaned Armoured Personnel Carriers were launched into unceded Secwepemc territory. This incident is commonly known as the Gustafsen Lake […]
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World Depression Canada and the world are in the worst economic depression in at least 90 years. At the start of 2020, the world was on the edge of a deep recession – COVID-19 plunged the economy over a precipice. Canada is facing years of high unemployment and extremely low growth. Weak domestic and foreign […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). With the beautiful ironic humour that usually accompanies mass uprisings and revolutions, a video has appeared of Alexandr Lukashenko driving a salon car being chased by a huge mining dump truck, clearly about to crush the car, symbolizing how quickly the mass movement is […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. “There’s no floor under the U.S.-China relationship. We keep finding new lows,” says author and China expert Richard McGregor. The conflict between the two biggest imperialist powers is escalating at dizzying speed. In July, the US ordered the closure of China’s consulate in Houston, which was followed immediately […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. “Before the Lebanese were angry because they had no money and no electricity. Now they have no windows and many do not have homes. If there is no bread, the people will be forced to violence. No electricity, no home, no bread? That’s a revolution” Abu […]
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Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). After months of negotiations and ever-increasing concessions by the government of Alberto Fernández, finally on Tuesday, August 4, an agreement with the main “vulture funds” was announced to restructure the payment of US$ 64.8 billion, out of a total of US$ 321 billion in […]
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