There is appetite for a radical and insurgent vision of the left
I don’t know about you, but I’m very angry. My anger is all the greater because it’s being diverted from its proper objects, such as Keir Starmer, Nigel Farage, Binyamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. It’s provoked by the absurd split that has exploded at the top of Your Party.
On 22 September, half a million workers, students and solidarity activists mobilised in more than 80 cities across Italy under the slogan “Blocchiamo Tutto” (Let’s block everything). The Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), which initiated the action, has called for “the immediate break-off of relations with the terrorist state of Israel”.
B.C. environment and energy ministers just gave the green light to Ksi Lisims, a project capable of producing almost as much as LNG Canada’s first phase. Concerns remain about the environmental impacts of the project
The B.C. government has just approved the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, which will produce up to 12 million tonnes of LNG annually by 2028.
Big banks across the world are substantially increasing their financing of the fossil fuel industry, including for the industry’s expansion during a time of intensifying climate crisis, all while pulling back from previously stated climate commitments.
For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.
In countries across the capitalist world, trade union movements are being challenged to their very core by the growth of right-wing populist and neofascist mass movements. What makes this situation especially dangerous is that labor unions and supporters are facing not just maniacal leaders or even military juntas, but a strengthening political alignment between segments of the capitalist class and these same right-wing social movements.
In 1933, German conservatives thought they could control Hitler. Two years later, they were being executed in their own homes. I spent weeks researching this question, desperately looking for counter-examples, for hope, for any time in history where people successfully stopped fascists after they started winning elections.
