We need to reduce the demand as well as the supply of fossil fuels to stop catastrophic climate change. This conversation needs to be lead by socialists, not cause division among them.
The Leap Manifesto, Alberta, and the realities of the demand for oil; Black Lives Matter released a mixtape; Sanders at Coachella; Fighting for $15 and Fairness. Read, debate, listen. All original content.
A Labour Notes 2016 panel on the fight to raise the minimum wage linked the struggle for redistribution to that of workers' power.
Why we fight: the battle for increased minimum wage; Exposing anti-black racism in Canadian media and politics; Housing, identity and the Left; Songs of the revolution; and Nuit Debout: the people of France fight back
The response to the rise in the visibility of income and social inequality has meant that the general population is starting to pay attention to this shift and the struggles of precarious workers. However, like any political struggle, the solutions to these struggles differ depending on ones politics and position within the economy.
This edition celebrates a year's worth of content with two features: Lost in technology: The struggles of the modern political campaign; and The 'precariate': A new demographic for organizing change.
James Hansen, the founder of modern climate change research, and his colleagues have released a new study on the impacts of climate change. This research shows that, at current levels of internationally agreed CO2 emissions, we only have a few decades left before sea levels rise multiple metres and sink coastal cities. Previous research had concluded it would take much longer.
New data alarms climate scientists; Massive Black Lives Matter rally in Toronto highlights struggle; Sanders campaign gives hope to political progress regardless of outcome; Black Americans prohibited from employment in legal marijuana industry; Varoufakis is back and it's going to be great; Corbyn hates privatized education, teachers love Corbyn.
Our 50th edition of What's Left this Week: Resource allocation and building worker power; Universities outsourcing to lower wages; Mass surveillance Canadian Style; Attacks on the Workers' Party of Brazil; and Corbyn's Labour Party, the media and polling.
Dispatch from the US: While Sanders fights to gain momentum, Trump dominates Republican race; Canada Revenue Agency offers amnesty to wealthy in secret agreement; Medical marijuana workers excluded from Ontario Labour Relations Act protections; How and why we need to get ourselves out of the self care trap:Debate over iPhone encryption a distraction from debate over gun regulation
