This website page was created in August 2017 and provides quick access to key articles by Roger Annis, the publisher and principle original author on A Socialist In Canada. Articles are listed by subject category and date. A weblink for each article is embedded in the article date.
Global warming emergency:
Socialism in the 21st century, August 27, 2018
Naomi Klein bares the limitations of her liberal environmentalism, Aug 4, 2018
Andreas Malm’s ‘Fossil Capital’ unearths the origin of capitalism’s attachment to fossil fuels but finishes with the shallow outlook of ecosocialism, May 12, 2018
Has the world entered a sixth, great extinction era? If not, could capitalism soon take us there?, Jan 24, 2018 (Here as pdf: Has the world entered a sixth, great extinction era?)
Everything must go’ writes environmental writer George Monbiot, Nov 27, 2017
Another warning of global warming: Record auto and truck sales, Oct 4, 2017
Smoke over the skies of North America is another climate change warning, Aug 15, 2017
Vancouver’s icy, dangerous sidewalks are a bellwether of the failings of Canada’s climate wrecking behemoth, Jan 18, 2017
Welcome to The Anthropocene, are environmentalists equipped to respond?, Sept 14, 2016
City at the heart of the Alberta tar sands is burning to the ground, May 5, 2016 (with updates)
Climate change emergency shakes Canada’s corporate establishment and fractures the country’s social democratic party, April 22, 2016
Climate change and social change: Lessons from the oil train disaster at Lac Mégantic, Quebec, Aug 30, 2013
Canadian political economy:
Global warming, Canada’s unions and the new, climate change-denial government in Ottawa, Nov 29, 2015
Canadian voters step sideways, not forward, in ousting Conservative government, interview with Roger Annis (transcript), Oct 20, 2015
In the wake of the Ontario election, NDP lurch to the right underscores need for a new, left wing party in Canada, July 2, 2014
Russia, Crimea, Ukraine and anti-fascism:
For the dissolution of NATO, for a federated and democratic Ukraine, Feb 27, 2022
Double standards as politicians and editorialists condemn neo-Nazism in Charlottesville, embrace it in Ukraine, Aug 23, 2017
The propaganda war over Crimea’s break from Ukraine, Dec 10, 2014
Russia and world imperialism:
Socialism in the 21st century, August 27, 2018
Reflections on the Russian Revolution of 1917, Sept 11, 2017, (pdf here) (4700 word essay)
The myth of ‘Russian imperialism’: In defense of Lenin’s analyses, Feb 29, 2016 (with Renfrey Clarke)
The Russia as ‘imperialist’ thesis is wrong and a barrier to solidarity with the Ukrainian and Russian people, June 18, 2014
The regime-change war in Syria:
Renewing Marxism and other radical thought in the West amidst a troubling decline, April 2, 2018
No to imperialist regime-change intervention in Syria and the Middle East, Jan 6, 2017 (with Phil Courneyeur)
No to Western intervention in Syria and Ukraine, no to its left-wing apologists, Nov 12, 2016
Cuba:
Fidel Castro’s legacy, Dec 6, 2016
Haiti:
Haiti’s promised rebuilding unrealized as Haitians challenge authoritarian rule, Jan 12, 2015 (with Travis Ross)
Haiti’s humanitarian crisis: Rooted in history of military coups and occupations, May 2011 (with Kim Ives)
Egypt:
Discussion about Egypt with socialists in Australia, Aug 17, 2013
Mass protests grow as military drags Egypt back to dictatorship, Jan 10, 2014
Mali:
The political left in France and in Mali assess the French military intervention and its aftermath, March 30, 2013
