Paramedics face crises everyday as a basic part of their job. In British Columbia, they are also facing entirely avoidable crises of understaffing, low pay, and burnout. All of this was cruelly exposed in the summer heat dome, with soaring distress calls, long waits for ambulances and unnecessary deaths. It wasn’t always this way. BC’s […]
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This verdict should put the final nail in the coffin that the courts can save us from the far right. THE SYSTEM IS GUILTY. The far-right, the police that shot Jacob Blake and celebrated Rittenhouse, and the courts that protect them both all represent the same racist system: capitalism. If we’re going to defeat the […]
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Southern British Columbia has been hit by two catastrophic weather events in a few months. First was heat and fire, now rain and floods. On November 13 and 14, the skies opened as an “atmospheric river” flowed across much of southern BC, resulting in overflowing rivers, landslides, mud slides, and ruptured railways and highways. This […]
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Written by ISA members from Poland, Belarus, Syria and Russia. Refugees Treated Like Animals as Imperialist Tensions Increase Joint statement by ISA members from Poland, Belarus, Syria and Russia about the crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border as thousands of refugees have been caught in a no-man’s land between the two countries on the edge of […]
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On Friday, November 5, there was a demonstration at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon campus, predominantly involving Indigenous students. The second demonstration within a month was this time centred on the scandal involving Dr Carrie Bourassa who had been feigning Métis heritage while a professor in the department of community health and epidemiology at the […]
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Marie O’Toole is on ISA’s COP26 organizing team. Monumental failure,” “Empty words, no action”’ and “Utter betrayal” are just some of the words used to describe the outcome of COP26. To save the climate capitalism needs to be ended. ISA was in Glasgow to build an organisation capable of organising a change to a socialist […]
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Militant electioneering and a socialist policy meet with significant support in Quebec. Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux’s team garnered 1,050 votes in the municipal elections on November 7, 2021 in Montreal. Her militant grassroots campaign has shown how elections can be used to broaden the tenants’ struggle movement in Verdun, a borough in the southern part of Montreal. […]
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On Friday November 12, the last day of COP26, a peaceful rally of several hundred for climate justice was disrupted by over-the-top action of the Vancouver Police Department. An Indigenous man, as part of a ceremony, placed red handprints, representing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, on the building that houses Canada’s Department of […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). After two weeks, 30,000 delegates, observers and lobbyists are concluding the Global Summit COP26 in Glasgow. The result — empty promises and inaction. The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is a “global greenwash festival and a failure,” said Greta Thunberg when she spoke at […]
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After the millions of Covid-19 deaths, the climate crisis has brought additional death tolls last summer. Floods, forest fires and other extreme weather events dominated the news. To force real action we need to take to the streets! Indigenous women are showing us the way, marching in their thousands through Brazil’s capital on 10 September […]
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