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Latin America: Rise in violence on the front lines of environmental struggle

By Pedro Meade and Ana Vitoria, Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (our sister organisation in Brazil) As we are seeing, climate crises are intensifying. Wildfires of unprecedented proportions are raging in Canada, there are historic droughts in Argentina, and increasingly severe storms are

Aug 6, 2023

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Workplace News

Amazon’s regime of exploitation comes to Dublin: Unionise and organise now!

By Finn McKenna This week brings the arrival of multinational e-commerce giant Amazon to Baldonnell Business Park in Dublin. The opening of this facility has already been met with comment by the trade union movement in Ireland. This is an anti-worker company

Aug 12, 2022

Uncategorized·World News

Amazon’s union busting at sorting centre in the US

By Chris Gray, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) Following the historic union victory at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) is gearing up for the next election at LDJ5, the 1,500 worker sort center

Apr 24, 2022

World News

Amazon defeated in New York City – unionise Amazon everywhere!

By an Amazon worker in the United States Workers at the JFK8 Amazon Fulfillment Center in Staten Island have dealt a stunning blow to the corporate giant by voting ‘Yes’ for the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), 2654 for and 2131 against. This

Apr 4, 2022

World News

United States: Unionise Amazon — save workers’ lives!

By Michael O’Brien The circumstances in which six Amazon workers recently died, and 95 of their colleagues had to be rescued from a warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, which collapsed during a tornado, brings home the fact that the lives of workers are

Dec 23, 2021

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: The New Corporation — the Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

By Martin LeBrun (our sister organisation in Canada) The 2003 film The Corporation explored the question “if a corporation is a person, what kind of person is it?” The film’s answer, in one of the best documentaries condemning corporations and capitalism, was that corporations

Apr 4, 2021

News & Analysis

Organise to fight Amazon’s regime of abuse & exploitation

By Peter McGregor Amazon has decided to set up shop in Ireland. It plans to create a new ‘fulfilment centre’ at a 650,000sq ft unit in Baldonnell. The purported reasoning behind this is to avoid delays on the delivery of products and

Feb 12, 2021

Amazon TAXED! Lessons of the Tax Amazon Victory in Seattle

By Logan Swan, Socialist Alternative (USA) The Tax Amazon movement and Seattle’s working class won a historic victory on Monday, July 6. Following a three year struggle against the richest man in the world – Jeff Bezos – and his political establishment,

Jul 13, 2020

Reviews and Culture·Theory & History

Review: People’s Republic of Walmart

People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism By Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski Verso Books, 2019 Among the most common arguments conservatives hurl at socialism is that planned economies always fail. Typically capitalists argue

Dec 22, 2019

Seattle City Council election: Socialists defeat Jeff Bezos and Amazon

By Michael O’Brien It is not typical for a city council election contest in the US to be the subject of national and international attention. Socialist Alternative (US sister organisation of the Socialist Party) councillor Kshama Sawant’s successful defence of her seat

Nov 30, 2019

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