Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). First, the Queen dies. Then a ‘mini-budget’ pushes the British economy to the brink of collapse. Then, just after the Tories come within an inch of reinstalling Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, back comes Rishi Sunak to the front again. Four people have […]
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Unsurprisingly, the Coalition Avenir Québec (Coalition for Quebec’s Future, CAQ) under François Legault won a second term in the province’s election. The far-right libertarian Québec Conservative Party, led by Éric Duhaime, votes grew dramatically. The Liberals and Parti Québécois, which dominated elections for years, continued an ignominious decline. Meanwhile, Québec’s reformist left stagnates and ignores […]
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Vilma Álvarez and Fernando Lacerda are members of ISA in Chile. Understanding the result of the September 4 plebiscite is crucial for the entire working class in Chile and for evaluating the perspectives for struggle. On September 4, more than 15 million Chileans voted in the plebiscite on the approval of a new Constitution. However, […]
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Written by Socialist Alternative members in Ontario. But The Fight Is Not Over Yet In one week, Ontario’s Conservative government went from an all-out attack on union rights to backing down. Monday, November 7 was a dramatic day in Ontario’s CUPE strike. In the morning, Premier Doug Ford’s press conference indicated he would be willing […]
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Eric Jenkins is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The United Nations is currently debating whether to send a non-UN military force to “bring stability” to Haiti. Ariel Henry, prime minister of Haiti, has begged the UN to send a “specialized” task force to eliminate gangs. The United States and Mexico are the […]
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This year’s annual meeting on climate, COP27, is being held in Egypt, ruled by a brutal dictatorship. The world’s business and political leaders do not want to be disturbed, while the planet burns by the annoying inconvenience of protesters demanding a future for themselves, the future generations, and their homes. The deadly, and frightening, impacts […]
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Written by Socialist Alternative members in Ontario. On October 30, the Ford government announced legislation that would make it illegal for 55,000 education workers in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to go on strike on Friday, November 4. Stephen Lecce, Ontario’s Minister of Education, announced the emergency legislation on Halloween but he certainly […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. At the Communist Party’s 20th Congress dictator Xi Jinping made a clean sweep of the party-state’s top organs including the once powerful Standing Committee, but does the purge translate into greater strength or stability? It was never in doubt that at October’s five-yearly CCP Congress Xi Jinping would be […]
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Capitalism Does Not Lead to Democracy The end of the neoliberal era was recently recognized by Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Her speech on October 11, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, outlined a vision, what some are calling the “Freeland Doctrine,” stridently calling out China and Russia as geopolitical enemies of Western capitalism. […]
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The new movie from Danish director Ruben Östlund has the enigmatic title “Triangle of Sadness.” It derives from the suggestion made to Carl, in the role of a male model, that he gets Botox to rid himself of his “triangle of sadness” (the wrinkles that form in the area between one’s eyebrows) in order to […]
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