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30/08/25
Author: 
Derek Seidman
Climate activists rally outside Bank of America Tower in Midtown Manhattan as part of the March to End Fossil Fuels on September 19, 2023. Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images

Aug. 25, 2025

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.

29/08/25
Author: 
Bill Fletcher, Jr. In These Times
Jaime Contreras, Executive Vice President of SEIU labor union 32BJ, speaks during an immigrant rights protest outside of the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C. on June 9, 2025. ,BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Aug. 26, 2025

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.

26/08/25
Author: 
Chris Armitage
We live in a fascist nation - what now?

Aug. 13, 2025

Once they win elections, it's already too late.

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.

22/08/25
Author: 
BC Society for Policy Solutions in News, Research
Mamdani

Aug. 19, 2025

Article by Véronique Sioufi, racial equity researcher and policy analyst, BC Policy Solutions


Well beyond New York City’s boroughs, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani has captured public attention with a comprehensive, unapologetically socialist mayoral platform.

08/08/25
Author: 
Rachel Gilmore
Workers install a sign reading ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at the entrance to a new migrant detention facility in Florida on July 3, 2025. Photo by Rebecca Blackwell, the Associated Press.

Aug. 8, 2025

Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.

A Canadian company is providing the muscle for a new Florida detention centre dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — and the Canadian government isn’t ruling out working with the security giant in the future.

10/07/25
Author: 
Karyn Pugliese
Cartoon by Greg Perry.

July 10, 2025

The PM’s spurning of the NDP could generate energy for angered progressive movements.

10/07/25
Author: 
Fred DeLorey
Why the NDP may be in even bigger trouble than we think

July 9, 2025

Why the NDP may be in even bigger trouble than we think

Behind the party’s collapse lies a financial and legal time bomb

Most people think the New Democratic Party’s 2025 election disaster ended on election night. It didn’t. The real fallout is still coming, and it could cripple the party for good.

Category: 
08/07/25
Author: 
Kristen de Jager
An environmental group is asking Ottawa to continue to support an international moratorium on commercial seabed mining in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Illustration via WWF.

July 7, 2025

Protesters rallied against a Canadian company that aims to lead in deep-sea minerals extraction.

08/07/25
Author: 
Christopher Holcroft
Why should Canadians pay for more F-35 fighters like this one made by a United States menacing our economy? Photo via Lockheed Martin.

July 8, 2025

The PM vows military spending will zoom. He’s failed to show the need or how we can afford it.

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