We Need Mass Struggle Against the Threat of Trump 2.0 The assassination attempt on Donald Trump at one of his rallies with thousands attending was utterly shocking, but not necessarily surprising. For the millions who deeply oppose Trump’s increasingly far right politics, desperation is growing as November 5 approaches. This is particularly the case because […]
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Trudeau’s carbon bomb has arrived. At the end of May, the first tankers started shipping diluted bitumen from the Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX). The expanded pipeline will be able to fill 34 tankers every month, compared to the previous capacity of 5 a month. All this extra fuel will add to the CO2 in the […]
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But His Persecution Proves That No One Is Truly Free Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been released from prison and allowed to go home to his wife and children in Australia after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage. His sudden release ends a legal nightmare for Assange during which he was involuntarily confined for […]
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But Starmer’s Labour will disappoint — Build working class struggle and a New Left Party The working class in England, Scotland and Wales have just wiped the floor with the Tories. With votes still being counted, they are headed for an historic defeat, and Labour is headed for one of the biggest majorities in more […]
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The False Hopes of Carbon Capture Schemes Some of the biggest polluters in the world, along with governments, have been betting the house on a quick technical fix to solve the problem of ever-increasing carbon emissions. That fix has been around a long time and goes by the name of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). […]
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The June 27 Presidential debate ended, and an excruciatingly pregnant pause swallowed the country. What did we just watch? And what the hell is about to happen? After Joe Biden puttered off the debate stage and the national debrief began on every major network, the chorus of Democratic operatives and media pundits concluded in harmony: […]
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Update: July 1 Late on Sunday, June 30, the WestJet Mechanics union, Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), announced that their two-day strike has ended. The new agreement had significant improvements over the one the members had rejected by 97 percent. WestJet’s bosses could have avoided the strike if they had made the latest offer after […]
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Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are neck and neck in a race no one asked them to run. Groceries are 30% more expensive than they were before COVID, while portion sizes shrink. The US is bankrolling the genocidal onslaught in Gaza to the tune […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden) The EU elections disaster of the ruling party, President Macron’s Renaissance Party, has led to the calling of new general elections in France, with the first round to be held on 30 June and the second round on 7 July. It is the EU […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of the ISA International Executive Following seven months of a Russian military offensive which has made limited advances, and almost 2.5 years of all-out war, the inter-imperialist character of the conflict in Ukraine is deepening, as is the risk of escalation. US and Western imperialism are reinforcing their commitments on […]
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