John Clarke

Thanks to @blueprints.bsky.social for this interview with Pat and Ian from @230fightback.bsky.social. Why the developer's barbed wire fence at 214-230 Sherbourne came down and why we were fully justified in this action. blueprints-of-disruption.captivate.fm/episode/tear...

'The long-standing U.S. military ties with the #Philippines have come at a high price for the residents of that nation.' theintercept.com/2026/10/26/p...

'Specialists directly attribute the lethal outbreak to the severe degradation of living and sanitary conditions imposed by the Israeli occupation.' #GazaGenocide‌ gazaherald.com/2026/10/26/c...

These abusive acts are shocking but they are only extreme manifestations of the police function of socially controlling targeted populations. #MontrealPolice www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

'BP’s vindictive behavior towards its locked out workers is a reminder, if one needed one, that it is in the top tier of arrogant, if not straight up, evil corporations operating in the world today.' joeallen-60224.medium.com/class-war-in...

'...the richest 0.1% of the world’s population are heavily invested in disaster preparedness, recovery and reconstruction – a market that is projected to grow from $70bn to $92bn a year by 2029.' #Climatedisaster www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'The speed and scope of Caracas’ realignment with Washington has made it an uphill battle for those insisting the acting Rodríguez government is merely conducting a “tactical retreat” without straying from the Bolivarian Revolution’s strategic horizon.' links.org.au/venezuela-re...

Canada's unions and social movements have a fundamental responsibility to do all they can to challenge the predators based in this country that conduct #mining operations across the planet. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

'Cole Rockarts makes the case for why unions remain indispensable and how workers can rebuild the labour movement.' www.readthemaple.com/can-unions-t...

Millions mobilized in #Brazil to stop the right and now they must be ready to hold #Lula accountable.

The threat posed by the right and the weakness of the centre left. www.facebook.com/john.clarke....

🌎 Story of the Day: E2 reports that US clean energy project cancellations have outpaced new investments by $8.2 billion since early 2025.

Great news from Serbia www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

GERMANY: Volkswagen Confirms 12,000 Additional Job Cuts as Union Sets January Strike Deadline www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/...

Melting glaciers in Dolomites reveal cache of first world war munitions Italian army removes and defuses 250 explosives encased in ice for more than 100 years after hikers’ sightings www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...?

The US #military appears to be weaponising #ClimateChange impacts, in this case increased flooding associated with the greatly amplified #ElNiño, to 'cleanse' areas of #Somalia held by the al-Shabaab jihadist quasi-state. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

Canadian-operated gold mines in the Dominican Republic and Haiti are facing growing opposition from local communities who say their water, health, and livelihoods have been harmed by years of extractive operations. This week, community leaders will bring their concerns directly to Ottawa.

More plant species are moving up Europe's mountains, but this masks the quiet loss of rare high-altitude plants. #biodiversity

Endangered turtles and ‘exceptional’ coral at risk from Woodside’s gas drilling in WA, watchdog says Exclusive: EPA flags oil spill risk from proposed gasfield and threat to pygmy blue whales www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...?

Super rich making money out of wrecking the planet and then making money out of preparing for chaos. Either we control the oligarchs and billionaires or they will control us as completely as they control Russia. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

FRANCE: Rail workers join November strike www.thelocal.fr/20261026/fre...

Read some of our recent pieces about contemporary workers' struggle and union strategy, including Toly Rinberg's ( @tolyrinberg.bsky.social ) piece on the UAW's response to the EV transition from last week. Links to all these pieces in the thread 👇🏽. ( @johncke.bsky.social )

'The application of these measures has produced a sophisticated mechanism of asphyxiation directed at the Cuban population, exceeding by far the levels of pressure historically imposed over decades.' www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1465/wo...

'Wherever in the world #datacenters go up, it seems the destruction of natural resources is inevitable — and increasingly difficult for humanity to ignore.' futurism.com/future-socie...

'The report quantifies how U.S. #emissions are disproportionately worsening this crisis, and with every fraction of a degree temperatures rise, so do the risks.' gizmodo.com/the-us-has-r...

'China is home to 700 million workers. Those who hate capitalism must be able to look them in the face and call them—without caveat, hesitation or hypocrisy...our comrades in struggle, our world’s grandest hope for a new beginning.' redflag.org.au/article/chin...

'The #WorkersParty has done nothing to end the grip of foreign multinationals, the banks and big business over Brazil’s economy.' thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/b...

“These findings are important because they help scientists understand how the planet responds to melting glaciers and shifting water.” #Globalheating gizmodo.com/earth-is-get...

“Within a mile of this datacentre are 30,000 people. But the people building this centre don’t live here ... They don’t give two shits about Welsh people.” #DataCentres www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

September’s employment decline was wholly accounted for by the public sector, down 70,000 workers in a single month. This report caps off a bad summer; the number of #publicsectorworkers has fallen by almost 150,000 since May.' www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

#BrazilElection Key considerations. www.facebook.com/john.clarke....

Mental health and addiction issues may make someone more vulnerable but homelessness is actually caused by a lack of housing that people can afford to live in. That is attributable, in very large measure to the extreme commodification of #housing provision.

The color of your skin makes you American? The god you pray to?

Kagu, the bird on the brink of extinction meets its own kind Original post

Scientists estimated that about 1 in 5 colorectal cancers worldwide is linked to a common stomach germ that more than four in ten people carry

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“It’s really stunning to see the level of opposition we’ve been seeing to data centers. It really has dramatically changed,” McKenzie Wilson, strategist at Blue Rose Research, told Politico. “It’s very rare in public opinion polling to see voters move so negatively on an issue so quickly.” #AI

Growth at any price comes at a high price www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

August was the hottest month ever measured, a result of climate change and El Niño. #climatechange

The Climate 8-Ball just updated and simplified its p(Doom) forecast, incorporating the latest AI and climate reports and events. As before, the Climate 8-ball is arrogantly refusing to answer any questions about this chart.

Yet another way Carney is exploiting Trump to dismantle Canada's government: Public sector austerity is driving unemployment numbers in Canada Tariffs are beginning to bite but it's public sector workers who are taking the biggest hit these days www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“We are talking about hundreds of families who left their homes because of this, and they are not at all connected to what happened yesterday.” Israeli soldiers raze neighbourhood in #Hebron, driving families from homes www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

'The largest #heatwave of the 1960s reached about 6% of the planet...The largest one this decade swept across almost 85% of the globe during its 367-day lifetime, stretching into the polar latitudes and touching virtually every human being on Earth.' www.reuters.com/investigates...

'Albanese warned that the mechanism deliberately strips Palestinians of self-determination, reducing a sovereign nation’s political right to statehood to a subordinated administrative oversight committee under US and Israeli control.' #BoardofPeace gazaherald.com/2026/10/23/a...

'...the people who move money around for a living are starting to have serious doubts about how sustainable the AI boom actually is, and we know they are not because they’re just saying so, but because they’re making financial decisions as if they are.' jacobin.com/2026/10/arti...

'US philanthropists have a long history of influencing what research gets done, and how.' #Techbillionaires portside.org/2026-10-23/h...

As long as the 'left' choices in elections are simply shamefaced agents of a despised status quo who can be nothing more than a lesser evil, the cynical pretence of the right to represent a rebellious force for change will enjoy an enormous advantage.

'So, genocide and the “two-state solution” will not be on the ballot on October 27. Neither will Israel’s “forever wars”. Rather, the electoral battle will be over the details...' #IsraeliElections www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Before @230fightback.bsky.social brought down the barbed wire fence the developer had erected around this vacant property, we worked with the Toronto Underhoused and Homeless Union on this community display. When this was contemptuously removed, we took action. socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed...