Recently former Prime Minister Stephen (Steve) Harper gave a speech to the Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence where he warned: “Elites are thriving and large segments of the rest of the population are not thriving,” he said. “The increase in income and wealth for the highest echelons of society has been unprecedented frankly since the […]
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Terrorist Tatmadaw massacres hundreds in Myanmar International Socialist Alternative, with workers and youth across the world, expresses its complete disgust…
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Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Vote counting starts at the end of March, and Amazon will likely use every trick in the book to challenge ballots from union supporting workers to drag the union drive into the courts and delay a final ruling until late April. The deep south […]
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The 2003 film The Corporation explored the question “if a corporation is a person, what kind of person is it?” The film’s answer, in one of the best documentaries condemning corporations and capitalism, was that corporations are psychopaths. Psychopathy manifests itself in superficial charm, a grandiose sense of self-worth, a manipulative personality, pathological lying, lack […]
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Tony Gong is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Winning the Green New Deal and Medicare for All The global economic crisis has made clearer than ever the need for social spending. Workers, students, and youth in the US are rallying behind Medicare for All (M4A), cancellation of student debt, and a Green […]
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Amazon’s warehouse in Brampton, on the edge of Toronto, was ordered to close by Peel Public Health…
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There is a huge and widening gap between reality and how the Chinese dictatorship presents reality…
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Harper Cleves is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). 150 years ago this month, history was made when working-class Parisians established the Paris Commune on March 18, 1871. This represented the first example of a society run by and for the working class – a workers’ state. While the Commune lasted for […]
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Members of Unite Here Local 40 have won an important victory. Over 500 laid-off workers at the Hyatt, Pinnacle, and Westin hotels have finally secured the “right to recall,” that is, to be rehired at their previous pay rate with the same accrued benefits. The workers’ contracts previously guaranteed temporarily laid-off employees their jobs back […]
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Solidarity Against Repression in China & Hong Kong. Free ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung! Since the Hong Kong mass struggles in 2019, the situation has changed completely. The dictatorship of Xi Jinping and the misnamed Communist Party (CCP) has answered with massive and unprecedented repression of democratic rights aimed at destroying the movement and preventing any […]
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