Dan O’Rourke is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Cost cutting and the potential for disaster … Workers at the Panama Canal in Central America have come under brutal attack from local police during a protest for safer working conditions. The workers are demanding their employer, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), hire […]
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Sonja Grusch is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Soon it will be 200 million people around the globe that have been officially infected by Covid-19. More than 3 million have already died. With the increasing availability of vaccines there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. But everything happening […]
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A rebellion of Palestinian youth, and expressions of solidarity between Jews and Arabs workers, in parallel with clashes, riots, far-right arson attacks and repression of protests. The man-made gates of hell were opened in a new phase of military escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the worst since 2014. Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel and […]
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Electric vehicles (EV) are hot news. Sales worldwide soared in 2020, increasing by 43 percent over the previous year. Automakers and governments are embracing new EV markets and pushing electric vehicles as one of the most important solutions to climate change. Governments around the world are announcing support for the shift to EVs. Biden’s proposed […]
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Jason Toynbee is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). 40th anniversary of his death Bob Marley died forty years ago, on May 11, 1981. It’s an extraordinary fact, but today he remains the only global superstar from the neocolonial world. Not only that, he is the only global superstar who achieved success […]
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Uri Bar-Shalom Agmon and Yasha Marmer are members of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). What’s Really Happening in East Jerusalem & Sheikh Jarrah? Police broke into al-Aqsa mosque after the Ramadan prayer on Friday night. They fired stun grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets on hundreds of Palestinians. Simultaneously, the protests in Sheikh Jarrah, an […]
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Hannah Swoboda is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Stand with Kshama SawantOn April 1, in a major development in the recall effort against Seattle City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant, the Washington Supreme Court sided with the right-wing recall campaign. The court’s decision to uphold the recall charges functions as […]
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On May 11, BC’s NDP government finally announced the introduction of paid sick leave, more than year into the COVID pandemic. This shift was driven by mounting pressure from unions, doctors, public health workers and the public. The NDP’s lack of sick pay was embarrassing after the conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, introduced paid […]
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Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The votes cast on May’s super-Thursday elections are still being counted. But already the picture painted is one of an utter disaster for Starmer’s Labour. Labour heading to lose over 200 council seats and further losses in the Scottish parliament. Since the 2019 […]
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Thomas Berger sadly passed at the age of 88 on April 28. His may be a new name for some, particularly for younger generations, but the impact he had on Indigenous people in Canada is profound. He leaves a great (and rare) legacy as a former Supreme Court judge, NDP politician and lawyer. In his […]
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