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Forests are being burned for electricity, and the emissions are dirtier than coal. You read that right: the wood pellet industry is being promoted as ‘clean power’, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

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Will you help defeat Bayer?

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Beyond McFeminism: The Socialist Origins of IWD in Canada

Joan Sangster

When a California McDonald’s marked International Women’s Day (IWD) in 2018 by inverting its big M to a W, some happy meal consumers tweeted that it should stick to hamburgers not political correctness, but the media also zeroed

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Dear Friends of SJS,

The Society for Socialist Studies presents

The Struggle Against Free Trade in Canada

19 March 2021,

6 pm EST

A panel and Q&A event with contributors to the Socialist Studies’ new special issue on a 30-years-later reflection of the struggle and thoughts on implications for the

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Will you help defeat Bayer?

Bayer-Monsanto is hellbent on shutting down peaceful protests of beekeepers.

A group of activists is fighting back in court. They've taken the case all the way to the Supreme Court, but they're running out of money and need your help.

Will you help them defeat

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International Women’s Day: A Militant Celebration

Alexandra Kollontai

This proposal for an International Women’s Day, made at the Second International Women’s Conference at Copenhagen in 1910, appeared in the women’s magazine of the German Social Democratic Party, Die Gleichheit . Authored by Clara Zetkin and others, it emphasized the need

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Pharma Failure

In this episode we discuss the failure of Bill C-213 to pass its Second Reading in the House of Commons. C-213 (a Private Member’s Bill from NDP MP Peter Julian) would have started the process of creating a national pharmacare program in Canada. We dive into the structure

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Council This Week r1 News, views and to-do's ...

I wrote this opinion piece about a Green/NDP alliance and I’d love your thoughts r1

Paov,

It seems as though another federal election is around the corner -- and to be, honest, the prospect makes me nervous.

The clock is ticking on the climate emergency, with the world’s leading scientists telling

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Accompanying Indigenous struggles r1 65+ people registered for March 11 webinar with Educa Oaxaca and the Sierra Madre Alliance … Read more... PBI-Honduras observes Guapinol Despierta media conference on UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions decision … Read more... PBI-Guatemala...…

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How India’s Farmers’ Protests Could Upend the Political Landscape

Vijay Prashad

For the past three months, Indian farmers and agricultural workers have been in the middle of a difficult struggle against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tens of thousands of them have gathered around the capital city

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B.C.’s Not-So-Sweet Sixteen r1 ‘It’s just one problem after another with this project,’ Narwhal reporter Sarah Cox told me. ‘I think we can expect some more bad news announcements.’ ...

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Fighting the Medical Monopoly:
Mobilizing for ZERO-COVID and Decommodified Healthcare

Salimah Valiani

With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, ‘vaccine nationalism’ is only slightly more rife than the calls against it. The focus on ‘vaccine nationalism’ by critical thinkers and activists misses some key lessons of the pandemic elaborated in

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Children are being trafficked into slavery harvesting cocoa for Nestle, Mars, and Hershey.

A brave group of former child laborers is fighting back against these companies in US courts, but they need your help to win. Will you chip in CA$89 today?

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In Ivory Coast, thousands

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Dear Friends of Victoria Central America Support Committee,
CASC is supporting the effort of Mining Watch and others across Canada to bring attention to the unjust actions of the Canadian mining company, Pan American Silver at the Escobal Mine in Guatemala. Please have a look at the petition and take…

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Human rights can be complicated

International and domestic laws around Indigenous peoples' human rights can be complicated. Unfortunately, this means that social media, and even respected news outlets, can wind up spreading misleading and outright false information. When it comes to human rights, you

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The Fortunate Marxist: Ernie Tate (1934-2021)

Bryan Palmer

Born poor on Belfast’s Shankill Road in the midst of the Great Depression was certainly no entré to a life that would cross paths with Bertrand Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. Ernest (Ernie) Tate would nevertheless work

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r1 Take action – Demand federal funds for a healthier future ...

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100,000 Deaths and a White Paper:
What we need instead in Britain

Colin Leys

When Imperial College’s modeller Neil Ferguson told the British government in early March 2020 that it was on course to see 250,000 deaths from COVID-19, he was widely seen as scaremongering. Now his warning looks

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r1 In a shocking filing with the energy regulator, the company admitted our pressure is working ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌

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Last week Trans Mountain filed a request asking the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) to keep the identity of its insurers a secret. The document explicitly name-drops Stand.earth and credits the

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February 2021 Update r1 SOVI February 2021: SOVI is wrapping up a busy February, and looking forward to connecting in March! ...

Hi A, a quick thing: hundreds of bee-lovers are backing our global fight to save bees from toxic pesticides . They’re scaling up our war chest to take on Bayer and co in all corners of the world -- will you join them?

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Solidarity with Farmers of India

In a full-page ad in the Toronto Star on February 27, labour, community and civil society organizations in Canada and elsewhere expressed their support for India’s farmers. This Declaration of Solidarity comes at a time when thousands of farmers in India have been engaged

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City Councillor files CRTC complaint against CFAX radio on Pink Shirt Day 2021 for “misleading, unbalanced programming” on issue of homelessness

February 24, 2021

VICTORIA, BC— On Pink Shirt Day 2021, which calls on the public stand up to bullying and harassment, Victoria City Councillor Ben Isitt has submitted a

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E-News: Nestlé sale to Wall St / Big Pharma blocks universal pharmacare / Council presents to HoC and more... r1 Collective activism makes people-powered progress possible. ...

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Beyond Digital Capitalism

Moderated by Michael Lardner. Presentations by:

• Stephen Maher: “Remembering Leo Panitch and Beyond Capitalism.” Stephen is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Canada, and Assistant Editor of Socialist Register .
• Greg Albo: “Leo Panitch, the Socialist Register and Beyond Digital Capitalism.” Greg teaches in

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Take the Plant, Save the Planet:
Workers and Communities in the Struggle for Economic Conversion

Sunday, February 28th, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST

Please join us for a discussion of the politics of plant conversion for an ecologically sustainable future.

The current pandemic crisis has dramatically exposed the need

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In the next 48 hours, HSBC could make a plan to end coal financing — forever . But we need to ensure they’re under enormous pressure to do it. Let’s not miss the chance:

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A,

Banking giant HSBC could rewrite our climate future in the next 48 hours — if

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BREAKING NEWS: Investigative journalists have just revealed land-grabbers are selling stolen Amazon rainforest on Facebook .

Tell Facebook to listen to indigenous communities who live there and stop stolen land being advertised on its Marketplace, NOW.

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For sale on Facebook: Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.

A groundbreaking BBC investigation

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Council This Week r1 News, views and to-do's ...

Solidarity Callout! r1 Supporters needed at camp and call for calls to BC Northern Health! ...

Social leaders challenge fracking agenda r1 Ecopetrol president updates investors on fracking pilot project in Puerto Wilches as social leaders warn of harm to water and biodiversity … Read more... PBI-Canada notes article that highlights the legal, reputational and market valuation risks corporations could face in Colombia … Read more... ...…

Reminder of upcoming CAFE SIMPATICO on Zoom

Presented by Victoria Central America Support Committee

Friday, Feb 26, 2021 at 07:00 PM Pacific Time

“Mexico Transformation – a Progress Report”

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A quarter of bee species have disappeared in the last 30 years.

Bayer and Syngenta's deadly pesticides are catapulting bees to extinction -- so we’re amping up our global campaign to stop them.

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ACT NOW support Danone workers rallying to defending quality employment and rights at Danone! r1 Read More

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Post-Capitalist Futures? Work After Automation

Brent Toye

Widespread social concern about potentially negative consequences of technological automation for workers is nothing new. Since the era of early industrialism, commentators and economists have mused about the potentially damaging effects of technological change that augments and displaces human with machine labour.

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Oh, this old thing? r1 There’s a kind of irony to the fact that, although we’re all storytellers at The Narwhal, it can be difficult for us to tell the story of The Narwhal. ...

NationBuilder r1

Your monthly update from the BC Health Coalition

UPDATE February is Black History Month: What does this mean for public health in BC?

Throughout the month of February, we have been sharing resources on our Facebook and Twitter accounts in honour of Black History Month. These resources highlight

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We got some major news today but we have to keep the pressure up. Can you help? r1

PAOV -

We got some big news today. Thanks to our people-powered push, we kept Big Oil out of Canada’s Net Zero Advisory Panel.

I’ll share more in just a second but before

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You did it again! RBC, the fifth biggest funder of fossil fuels in the world, just made a commitment to reduce GHG emissions, with a net-zero by 2050 announcement.

This is an important first step and wouldn’t have been possible without you. We also want to thank a few

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The Class Character of the Expansion of COVID-19:
The Case of Peru’s Capital City Lima

Jan Lust

At the end of December 2019, the world was notified about the existence of a new coronavirus in the city of Wuhan in China. This virus, SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19), rapidly spread and was

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Siemens is providing crucial technology to a toxic new coal mine that will hasten the death of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

But we have new evidence that could force Siemens to reconsider.

Can you help build a global outcry to show Siemens that the risks of this mine are too

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Urgent Medical Support Needed in Honduras r1 ...

Does an email count as a celebration? r1 ...

I wanted to reach out one more time to ask you to sign the petition calling for a Just Transition Act. r1

Friends,

I wanted to reach out one more time to ask you to sign the petition calling for a Just Transition Act. If you sign today, your name

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Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency with Seth Klein r1 You're invited to join a conversation with Seth Klein and local Green New Deal organizers on March 9. ...

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Remembering Larry Nozaki: ‘Enemy Alien’, Unionist, Socialist

Sadly, Larry Nozaki (1940-2020) died in Surrey BC on December 5, 2020. Larry was a casualty of the anti-Japanese internment camps during the war, long-time union activist in Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), and a member of the League for Socialist

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You're invited!

This Thursday, Feb 25th at 7pm Eastern

Join Canadian Friends Service Committee for a free chance to learn more about our Associate Clerk (vice chair of the board of directors) Vince Zelazny.

This is part of an on-going series all year...

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Hi friend,

You wouldn’t think that health-conscious brands like The North Face, Lululemon, and Columbia would pollute the air with coal fumes, right? Unfortunately, these household names are doing exactly that because their supply chains are heavily

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You wouldn’t think that health-conscious brands like The North Face, Lululemon, and Columbia would pollute the air with coal fumes, right? Unfortunately, these household names are doing exactly that because their supply chains are heavily

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Action Dispatch

Paov --

The BC government released the sixth update to its Surgical Renewal Plan last month, and we are concerned by what we see. We need your help to respond!

Last June, with the release of the Surgical Renewal Plan, over 4000 of you wrote a letter

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⚡ Phone blitz to stop old-growth logging r1 ...

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Will Andrés Arauz Be the Next President of Ecuador?

Vijay Prashad and Pilar Troya

In Ecuador’s presidential election held on February 7, 2021, Andrés Arauz won the largest number of votes but could not prevail in the first round against 15 other candidates; he won 32.71 per cent of

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We are the Council of collective action r1 Your support and the collective support of tens of thousands of donors is what makes the Council of Canadians unique. ...

Reminder of upcoming CAFESIMPATICO on Zoom

Presented by Victoria Central America Support Committee

Friday, Feb 26, 2021 at 07:00 PM Pacific Time

“Mexico Transformation – a Progress Report”

With Laura Carlsen, Director, the Americas Program

Celebrating...

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Powerless in Texas

Snehal Shingavi

Two images capture the crisis in Texas perfectly. First, nurses at St. David’s South Austin Medical Center came to work on Thursday to this: “A notice said the water went out. The notice then listed some instructions for using the restroom, such as to

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Socialists on Social Media Platforms and Imagine Platform Socialism

Tuesday, February 23 / 6:00 pm EST

Tanner Mirrlees: Communicating within and Against Digital Capitalism.

Derek Hrynyshyn: Imagine Platform Socialism.

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Voices Beyond Borders: A Poetic and Musical Tribute to Paul Robeson

Thursday, February 25 / 7:00 pm EST

This evening of poetry

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A brave mother in Argentina has been fighting to ban glyphosate for over two decades.

Now, she has a historic opportunity to take her case to court .

Will you chip in CA$90 to help Sofía ban glyphosate in Argentina?

If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will

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Ontario’s Care Crisis /w Pat Armstrong

In this episode we continue our discussion of the crisis in long-term care homes in Ontario. This time we are joined by Dr. Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. Dr. Armstrong’s career has focused on feminist political

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Shock Therapy: Public Funding and the Crisis at Laurentian University

John Peters

Here we go again. A major crisis. Governments cutting taxes. Bailouts in the billions for banks and corporations. And suddenly public services – including universities like Laurentian – are on the chopping block. This has been the story in

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Council This Week r1 News, views and to-do's ...

Accompaniment update r1 PBI-Canada & Amnesty International Canada webinar on the impact of Canadian mining on Indigenous rights in Mexico, March 11 … Read more... PBI-Honduras accompanies the National Union of Rural Workers at media conference on food insecurity and agrarian crisis … Read more... ...…

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Living Socialism Today: Remembering Leo Panitch

Sam Gindin

Standing outside a conference with a group of devotees, a famous political scientist brags that there’s only two people in the world he’s afraid of: his mother and Leo Panitch. To anyone who knows Leo, this revelation elicits knowing smiles and

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Can you say fellowship? r1 You’re used to hearing from us about the threats to Canada’s natural world, but today I’m writing about a different kind of challenge we must tackle. ...

1,200+ people have faxed their “green job application” to the PM. Send yours. r1

Paov,

I’m impressed. Over 1,200 people have faxed a “green job application” to the Prime Minister’s office. Can you take a minute to send yours? We’re aiming to hit 1,500 by the end of the week.

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Dear ,

Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrencies. You’ve likely heard these words in the last few years.

These technologies all form what experts call virtual assets – things that hold value, but only exist in digital form. The term often refers to cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin or Ethereum, but it

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“Middle Class” As Deflection

Jeffery R. Webber

Saving the middle class has become fashionable again. With alarming regularity, opinion pieces in the country’s leading newspapers, magazines, and online media call for the reorienting of Canadian state policy around this elusive goal. Despite (or because of?) the shared commonsensical tone

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Urgent pharmacare vote at parliament r1 The February 24 vote on Bill C-213 is an opportunity for all MPs to commit to universal pharmacare for all. ...

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Navalny and the Protests: Some Clarification

Karine Clément

Who is Alexei Navalny? We now hear nothing but good things said about him in the West, and the enthusiasm should probably be tempered. I personally have never been a fan of Navalny. At the same time, the guts he showed

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Dear CASC supporters,

Our Café Simpatico Zoom meetings have had a good response. If you missed our Café with Wendy Mendez and Carmen Miranda Barrios on January 15: here is the link tpo the google file of their talk: Guatemala: Human Rights Update : …

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GameStop and Share Markets:
Between the Bad and the Ugly, There is No Good

Harry Glasbeek

The recent GameStop story coming out of the US pushed arcane financial dealings into a prominence they rarely enjoy. The public was introduced to weird concepts such as “short selling and short squeezes”

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Why Amazon Is Fighting So Hard to Stop Warehouse Workers From Unionizing

Sonali Kolhatkar

Thousands of warehouse workers at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, Alabama, are at the center of a potentially game-changing union vote taking place right now. On February 8, the warehouse workers were sent ballots by

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The Politics and Geopolitics of the Coup in Myanmar

Vijay Prashad

On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military – known as the Tatmadaw – invoked Article 417 of the 2008 constitution, dismissed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, and arrested her and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

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Community Helps to Sustain Portland’s Ongoing BLM Protests

April M. Short

At any given Black Lives Matter (BLM) event in Portland, you might encounter what looks like a farmers market stand, with woven baskets full of fresh veggies, fruits and flower cuttings. Look a little closer and you might

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Contradictions of "Artificial Intelligence" in 21st Century Capitalism

Sunday, February 14th @ 2:00 PM (EST)

Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. These experiments, begun by Marx, remain fragmentary and contested. Yet the

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r1 Paov,

We’ve been getting to know each other for a while. That’s why we’re sending you a Valentine’s candy – to thank you for all that you do for the environment.

But hey! Let’s take our relationship to the next level. We can make an even greater team with your…

New report on human rights defenders r1 New report documents that 331 human rights defenders were killed in 2020 … Read more... PBI-Canada encourages Foreign Minister Marc Garneau to read US civil society letter to Antony Blinken on human rights defenders … Read more... ...…

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In this edition, we bring you some reasons to keep fighting, and some reasons to be hopeful.

So here we are: we made it through the first month of 2021. Many of us had unprecedented struggles to face in the year 2020, and many of us had to adapt

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In Memory of Ernie Tate (1934-2021):
A Life of Revolutionary Activism

John Riddell

The socialist movement lost an outstanding educator and organizer with the passing of Ernest (Ernie) Tate in Toronto on 5 February. An outstanding partisan of global anti-imperialist solidarity, Ernie also contributed, with his partner Jess MacKenzie,

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Call out for Supporters at Camp and Upcoming Film Festival r1 Details on needs at camp and upcoming events with frontline leaders inside ...

‘We admit we didn’t get this one right’ r1 Greetings Narwhals, it’s your bitterly cold Alberta reporter checking in. I hope your week has been quieter than mine over here in Wild Rose Country. ...

Let's flood the PM's fax line with green job applications. r1

Dear Paov,

As you know, millions of Canadians lost their jobs over the course of the pandemic. January’s job numbers, which reflect the impacts of COVID’s second wave, just came out and they’re worse than most experts predicted.1 And,

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Download this newsletter in PDF .

Massive support for new UN Declaration Bill C-15

Indigenous activists, scholars and leaders have come together to make it clear that new legislation Bill C-15 (the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act ) will be a major step forward if it becomes

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Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt

Yanis Iqbal

The whiplash of authoritarianism is being ruthlessly used in Egypt. On January 6, 2021, Ahmed Khalifa, social news editor of Egypt 360 website, was arrested after publishing a series of reports on workers’ legitimate protests. He was falsely charged with joining a terrorist

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Understanding Naval’nyi

David Mandel

To understand Aleksei Naval’nyi’s significance for Russia as a leading figure of the opposition, one needs some idea of the nature of the political regime of President Vladimir Putin. This is ‘Bonapartist’-type regime, in which the state administration, and proximity to it, are the principal

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Support Kanahus Manuel in securing legal representation r1 Hi Paov We're calling on the Idle No More community to support land defender Kanahus Manuel as she seeks justice after an arrest for Tiny House Warriors Trans Mountain pipeline resistance. ...

Call to stop old-growth logging

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The US is Trying to Provoke a Soft Coup in Cuba

Rosa Miriam Elizalde

We are in the era of soft coups. Old-fashioned coups d’état and invasions get terrible press. The images of US troops invading the Dominican Republic in 1965 or marching through El Chorrillo in Panama in

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Dear Friends of SJS,

Check out the IDW Film Festival this week:

International Development Week online Film Festival

February 7th – 15th

Hosted by: VIDEA

Celebrate International Development Week with VIDEA’s first ever online film festival! Get a sneak peek into what life as an intern in Zambia and Uganda is

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Stock Market Pipedreams

In this episode we chat about Biden’s cancelling of the Keystone XL pipeline and Jason Kenney’s hilarious reaction to it, as well as present a socialist perspective on the GameStop stock surge and financial market ‘democratization’.

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Hi A, quick question: The UK government just lifted a ban on neonics, so we need to get as many bee-lovers as we can to speak up for safer, pesticide-free farming. Will you join us?

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Trump May Be Gone, But Neofascism Remains

Vishwas Satgar

At last, the Donald Trump Presidency has crash landed and he is out of the White House. Now, we can all start dealing with ‘Trump trauma’ and shock. What did we live through over the past four years? This is

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The UK government just lifted the ban on bee-killing pesticides -- this could be a death sentence for our bees!

But this isn't over yet -- the government is doing a public consultation on the issue. With online ads we can get thousands of bee-lovers to flood the consultation before it's too

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Socialist Activist, Ecologist: The Wayne Roberts We Knew

Harry Kopyto, Gord Doctorow and John Darling

The tributes that have been made to Wayne Roberts (born 30 September 1944) for his work as a food-policy leader and activist are well known and continue to be made after his untimely death

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