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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Socialist Alternative has produced a summer special issue, #15, of our magazine, after a break due to COVID-19. We plan to return to normal production with an autumn issue out in September. The Whole System is Rotten Defund the Police – Re-Fund Social Services
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Jo Yan is a member of Socialist Action (ISA in Hong Kong). Government uses new Covid-19 outbreak as pretext to cancel Legco elections The passage of the draconian Hong Kong National Security Law means the counter-revolutionary suppression by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has officially arrived, following the ebb of the mass revolt against police violence […]
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We are currently living through a pandemic, but it is pivotal to recognize that COVID-19 is not the only health crisis in Canada. According to the federal government, 12 people die from an opioid overdose every day in the country. Simply put, opioids include an umbrella of medications used to relieve pain. Why are opioids […]
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