Climate change is real, and its impacts are clear. Increasingly the climate disaster feels apocalyptic. The real issue is not: is there climate change? What is to be done? – that is the question. Some, especially young people, feel despair worrying about the future state of the world. If the governments and corporations that dominate […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. Bring Down the Junta! No More Compromise! The military coup carried out by the Sudanese generals on October 25 has sparked a furious response from the masses, bringing the struggle between the revolution and counter-revolution initiated in December 2018 to its sharpest juncture so far. Since […]
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“Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer” goes the saying. In the case of the telecom giant, Rogers, it would appear that it’s your own family members who need to be the closely watched ones. Rogers ─ which currently has two duelling boards of directors, a stalled multibillion-dollar takeover, a feud among the […]
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Conor Payne and Chris Stewart are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Many ecologists, activists and academics argue that an obsession with economic growth is the cause of our current ecological crisis and a commitment to “degrowing” the economy is the solution. Too often, however, this discussion lacks sufficient class or anti-capitalist content, […]
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Greyson Van Arsdale is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This winter, Seattle will hold its first-ever December election in recorded history. The ballot question will be on the recall of Seattle’s only socialist councilmember, Kshama Sawant, as the culmination of a year-long effort by big business and the right wing to unseat […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). All this week of the COP 26 in Glasgow, Socialist Alternative will have articles on the issues at stake. The existential threat of the climate crisis has never been more obvious or more urgent. The 2021 IPCC report has confirmed that we are […]
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Finn McKenna is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). *Spoiler alert throughout* Squid Game has the entire world talking. The series based in South Korea is the most watched show on Netflix of all time; 110 million Netflix viewers have streamed the show. Considering the series was only released on September 17, […]
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Sam Belton is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Levels of CO2in the atmosphere are now 50 percent higher than at the onset of capitalist industry in the 1800s. Without urgent action, it will be 100 percent higher by 2060. At this point, the latest IPCC report predicts that the earth’s surface […]
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On October 8, after once again University of Saskatchewan campus security failed to protect a female student from being sexually assaulted, students held a rally in Nobel Plaza holding signs such as “Silence is Violence,” “Stop Victim Blaming,” and “Consent is a Basic Human Right.” Despite the solidarity shown among Caucasian, Indigenous and Transgender students, […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. “Millions of suffering workers, young people, women and oppressed are aspiring to a Sudan free of violence and poverty, while the generals and warlords who rule and loot the country are only waiting for their moment to strike back more forcefully to defend their power and […]
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