Ford Canada announced in April that it would postpone all electric vehicle production at its Oakville assembly plant in Ontario by two years until 2027 due to “softening demand,” meaning that people aren’t buying EVs because their price is too high. “We are committed to scaling a profitable EV business, using capital wisely and bringing […]
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Arne Johansson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). When the CWI, the Committee for a Workers International, was formed in the upstairs of the Mother Red Cap pub (an old pub said to have been frequented by Karl Marx, rebuilt in the 1980s and ironically renamed World’s End) in London on 20-21 […]
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Philip Chmel is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). On 19 April, tens of thousands of young and oppressed as well as working class people more broadly will once again hit the streets for the next global climate strike with actions expected on all continents. The slogans of this climate strike “#ClimateJusticeNow” and […]
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“Axe the (carbon) tax” argues Pierre Poilievre. Given the source, one could be tempted to automatically respond, “keep the tax. Taxes are never popular but, along with death, they are said to be the only certainties in this world. So, what is the carbon tax? A carbon tax directly adds a surcharge on top of […]
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Unprecedented military response of the regime in Tehran to the provocative Israeli assassination of Iranian generals in Damascus leads to fear of a chain reaction. Shahar Ben Horin, Yasha Marmer, Socialist Struggle in Israel-Palestine The unprecedented military response of the regime in Tehran to the provocative Israeli assassination of Iranian generals in the Iranian consulate […]
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International Pressure Helped Bring Them to the Table In a dramatic breakthrough on February 27, the multi-billion dollar Starbucks corporation agreed to national negotiations with its employees’ union Starbucks Workers United after more than two years of stalling. Union sources have reported that bargaining will start on April 24, probably in Chicago. National negotiations, as […]
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Crashing economy, vanishing jobs and unpaid wages are forcing workers onto the streets. Jinchuan & Dikang, chinaworker.info China’s economy is now in its deepest crisis since the restoration of capitalism. This is also part of an unprecedented crisis of the global capitalist system. Everywhere the crisis inevitably makes class antagonisms more acute as the capitalist […]
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Ontario Art Gallery workers on strike “Show me the Monet,” was one of the many witty slogans of the striking workers of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The gallery in Toronto, is one of the largest art museums in North America, attracting approximately one million visitors annually. It boasts a collection of more than 120,000 […]
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Carlo Mosti is a member of Alternative Socialiste, ISA in Québec Québec’s Minister of Economy, Fitzgibbon, has been defensive about the construction of the multi-billion-dollar Northvolt battery plant south of Montreal. The most recent criticism is that the mega-plant project is being rushed through, even dodging a proper environmental assessment. The right-wing CAQ government changed […]
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Greyson Van Arsedale is a member of of Socialist Alternative in the US. Build An Alternative! A recent poll found 59% of registered voters have little or no enthusiasm about a Biden-T Trump rematch. It’s not difficult to see why: both men have been President within the last decade, and the results have not been […]
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