Since this article was published the US has stepped up attacks and seizure of oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela. The world is following with horror as Donald Trump makes one announcement after another, gloating over unleashing a barrage of extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean. Under the guise of fighting Venezuelan “narco-terrorists,” the White […]
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#EndBadGovernance Remains Necessary Until Victory for the Working Masses Lateef Adams After a series of adjournments and repeated rescheduling since September 2024, the long and unjust treason trial of the eleven End Bad Governance protesters has finally been laid to rest on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court struck […]
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Brazil’s Lula government had announced COP30 in Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon River, as a summit of “truth” and “implementation.” It turned out instead to be both an expected and a sad fiasco. Astoundingly, the UN-led climate negotiations failed to even manage to mention fossil fuels by name as the cause of 75 […]
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In around 90 cities, school students went on strike and took to the streets. SAV (ISA in Germany) was present at and in some cities helped build these rallies. Students’ message: You don’t care about us, schools are falling into disrepair, the planet is burning, we can no longer afford many things, our future is […]
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Despite recent difficulties and internal battles, Your Party has finally been officially founded. Over the weekend of 29-30 November, over 2,000 YP members gathered in Liverpool to establish what is already the largest socialist party in Britain since the 1940s. Nobody will have missed the sharp debates which were thrashed out on the conference floor. […]
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One year before the provincial elections, Québec’s premier, François Legault, no longer needs to pretend at “social dialogue.” He now openly exposes his anti-union agenda. Various propositions for attacks on unions have circulated within Québec’s Labour ministry, even suggesting a questioning of the Rand formula, which is a foundation of Canadian unions since 1946. This […]
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“We need [to] bludgeon cunts like you in the streets,” an anonymous account posts under an activist’s tweet about strikes. “Someone needs to cave your fucking head in.” These threats are examples of the misogyny and violence that women face daily. Ending digital violence is the theme of this year’s UN Day on Eliminating Violence […]
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“A week is a long time in politics,” British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is said to have remarked in response to the twists and turns in the currency crisis that shook Britain in 1964. All the various so-called peace proposals presented over the past week as a basis for ending the war in Ukraine give […]
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Mark Carney’s Liberals won the election promising to stand up to Trump and his tariffs and threats to make Canada the 51st state. In office, Carney dropped the “elbows up” approach; instead, he is appeasing Trump. The Liberals have scrapped almost all tariffs on US imports. They agreed to join the “Golden Dome,” a space-based […]
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Capitalist greed, cost-cutting and disregard for human life have once again caused a catastrophe. The raging fire at Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court, which lit up half the night sky, was the deadliest fire in Hong Kong in the post-1945 era. Eighty three people are confirmed dead at the time of writing, with that number likely to […]
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