“He who pays the piper calls the tune.” Never has this saying proved more true than in a recent case from the University of Toronto. Last year, one of the U of T’s major donors learned that the university was about to hire a scholar whose ideas (supposedly pro-Palestinian) he disapproved of. Journalist Linda McQuaig […]
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A typical Canada Day will see most of the country awash with red and white. This year it was more covered in a bright and distinct streak of Indigenous orange. While July 1 marks the independence from the British colonial master, for Indigenous people colonialism did not end – it was intensified after 1867. This […]
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Ginger Jentzen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Mega-pop star Britney Spears gave twenty-three minutes of testimony at a recent court hearing, and forcefully spoke against the conservatorship used to dramatically limit her rights and access to her earnings. Audience for the #FreeBritney movement – people who believe Spears’ father is holding […]
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Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). US Imperialism Withdraws US imperialism’s 20-year war in Afghanistan has come to an ignominious end with the final withdrawal of its 2,500 remaining troops this month. The withdrawal comes two months before Biden’s deadline of 11 September – the 20th anniversary of Al-Qaeda’s criminal […]
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The verdict is in – the cancelled Keystone XL pipeline has cost Albertans $1.3 billion! Let’s be grateful we dodged the $6 billion bullet in the form of guaranteed loans which would have materialized if it had not been cancelled. Jason Kenney’s UCP, and the Government of Alberta in general, love giving money away to […]
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Written by an Iranian socialist. Iranian oil, gas and petrochemical workers from more than 60 facilities in ten provinces have been on strike since June 19. Unprecedented rise in prices in recent months and intolerable working conditions has been the cause of the largest strike in the Iranian energy sector under the Islamic Republic. The […]
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Grace Fors is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The relative fast pace of vaccination in the U.S. has been an enormous relief for tens of millions. People are able to reunite with family members and friends. But the real toll of 15 months of isolation, the psychological and social effects on the […]
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Jonas Brännberg is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Two years after the first global climate strike on 19 March 2019, despite the acute situation, Covid-19 has pushed the question into the background. Yet the coronavirus is in itself a judgment on the capitalist mode of production which destroys ecosystems and creates biological […]
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The hottest place in Canada, Lytton BC, has burned to the ground. The mayor of the small village in the Fraser Canyon said “it would be a miracle if everyone made it out alive.” On the evening of Wednesday, June 30, smoke was spotted, and 15 minutes later a full evacuation order was issued as […]
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Socialist Action (ISA in Hong Kong) reporters In Hong Kong, the government’s white terror against political activity, the media, opposition parties and democratic rights takes new leaps every day. Apple Daily’s billionaire owner Jimmy Lai Chee-Ying was arrested under the national security law last year. He is one of 114 people so far charged under […]
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