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11/10/21
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Left Streamed & Socialist Register
Winning the Case for Transformative Left Economics

[Editor: Interesting political discussion in the UK]

October 10, 2021

Facing environmental breakdown and a global pandemic, the need for a radical overhaul of our economic system has never been clearer. But following Labour’s defeat in the 2019 general election, the route to winning the changes needed has looked more uncertain. What bold new proposals and policies should the left be making in these unprecedented times, and how can we win them in Britain?

11/10/21
Author: 
Yves Engler
Jim Harris, Annamie Paul

Oct. 9, 2021

It was quite the performance. Evan Solomon’s response to former Green party leader Jim Harris demonstrates just how enamored the media is with Annamie Paul’s pro-imperialist and capitalist identarian politics.

09/10/21
Author: 
Tracy Giesz-Ramsay

Oct. 4, 2021

Psychosocial treatment should also be for everyone, not just the rich

Meredith Dan was sitting in her East Vancouver home with her sister and her niece when she received the most devastating news of her life. Her son, Glenn Rebic, who had been missing for four excruciating days, had been found deceased.

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08/10/21
Author: 
John Feffer TomDispatch
Photo by Matt Artz on Unsplash

An impressively comprehensive (and scary) summary of “the task before us, if we would not fail, is to build the earth.” And, though the author does not say it explicitly, he convincingly documents why this task cannot be accomplished with the required urgency under capitalism.

  • Gene McGuckin

Climate-Change Transition in the Age of the Billionaire

It was supposed to be the greatest transition of modern times.

08/10/21
Author: 
Leander Jones
An artist’s rendering of a bike-friendly road near the Brandenburg Gate. Photograph: Tom Meiser/Timo Schmid/Vanmoof

Oct. 6, 2021

Petition to forbid private car use in area equal in size to London’s zones 1 and 2 has collected 50,000 backers

A citizens’ initiative calling for a ban on private car use in central Berlin would create the largest car-free urban area in the world.

08/10/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Canada is in the top 10 for total emissions, which climate advocates say gives the country an even greater responsibility to align itself with a climate-safe future. Photo by Chris Robert / Unsplash

A new ranking of the planet’s largest polluters has Canada in the top 10 for total emissions, which climate advocates say gives the country an even greater responsibility to align itself with a climate-safe future.

07/10/21
Author: 
Theresa McManus
New Westminster is the latest city to oppose a proposed expansion at the Tilbury LNG plant in Delta. Contributed

Oct. 5, 2021

New Westminster is the latest community to oppose the proposed expansion of the Tilbury liquefied natural gas plant in Delta.

At Monday’s meeting, representatives from the Council of Canadians and the Wilderness Committee urged New West to follow the lead of Vancouver, Richmond and Port Moody, which have voiced their opposition to FortisBC’s plan to expand its Tilbury LNG plant on the Fraser River.

06/10/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Oil and gas industry groups and climate advocacy organizations in Canada are squaring off to shape the federal government’s just transition strategy. Photo via Hebron

Somewhat amazingly, two words absent from this article are "profits" and "unions." It's like a nature calendar of BC with no pictures of water or trees.

                    - Gene McGuckin

October 6th 2021

As the planet slides into an era of climate breakdown, oil and gas industry groups and climate advocacy organizations in Canada are squaring off to shape the federal government’s just transition strategy.

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