The internationalists

Another International Working Women’s Day, another appeal for the class war! 108 years on from women proletarians launching the 1917 Revolution in Russia, we find the fundamental issues unresolved. · As a way of example, let’s call to your attention two key struggles in women-dominated sectors: · In New York City, homecare workers for the ill and elderly face grueling conditions, working sometimes...

On December 16, 2024, former Liberal Finance Minister Chrystia Freedland published her resignation letter from the cabinet, citing reservations concerning the Trudeau government’s approach to the crisis of living standards besetting Canadians. The letter claimed that Canada could “ill afford” dubious measures such as Trudeau’s tax holiday and had to focus on the impending American tariffs on...

Trump’s recent intentions to acquire Greenland and take over Canada show that the US is taking an increasing interest in the Arctic. The area is home to a huge number of strategic resources such as gas, oil, rare earths, gold, and lithium. The advantage of acquiring these for both economic and military purposes is obvious, not to mention the strategic geographical position of Greenland given the...

This January it was made official: the year 2024 was the hottest on record at an average temperature of 15.10°C – 0.12°C higher than the previous record set in 2023, and 1.55°C above pre-industrial temperatures. The sudden surge of temperature has scientists worried; average global temperature is measured on a 10-year average, and it is unclear whether two consecutive record breaking years is an...

As Bordiga once famously noted, human affairs cannot be understood as a photograph, as something frozen in time, but have to be understood as a film, a series of almost imperceptible shifts in every frame but which add up in the end to a complete change in reality.(1) Recent events in the Middle East and their consequences (both intended and unintended) only underline the validity of that...