“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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Till Ruster is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Sixty-five years ago, on 23 October about 20,000 Hungarians protested in Budapest in support of a manifesto which called for Hungarian independence, democratic socialism based on land reform, public ownership and democratic rights. The Hungarian revolution had started. A captured Soviet tank is rolling […]
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Albertans went to the polls on October 18, electing new mayors in the two big cities: Jyoti Gondek in Calgary and Amarjeet Sohi in Edmonton. In both cities, voters elected fairly liberal, progressive city councils, most strikingly in Edmonton, where three right-wing councillors lost their seats. Of the nine city council candidates that the Edmonton […]
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