Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsBread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The framing of the question would have you believe that it’s a point of principle – that the UCP wants to work with other provinces to make Canada more democratic. At the same time, completely absent from the referendum is any mention of reforming our archaic first-past-the-post electoral system. 111
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.” 71413354
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Elbows up baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 19382121
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsBread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Come check out the Philippine Edmonton Solidarity Organization's Fundraiser & Social this Sunday, September 20th from 3-8PM! Lend your support to the Kapit-Bisig conference, learn about Martial Law in the Philippines and sing karaoke with us! #yeg www.instagram.com/p/DdNrGy9SND... 033
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"a proposed $10.9-billion high-speed rail link between Edmonton and Calgary" Ok who wished on the monkey's paw 😭 061
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsSKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 02/12/2024THE PEOPLE NEED FROG 729075
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsV. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026[Marxism] says: We must know how to combat religion, and in order to do so we must explain the source of faith and religion among the masses in a materialist way. The combating of religion cannot be confined to abstract ideological preaching, and it must not be reduced to such preaching. 07212
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsBread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Happy Pride from B&WR! This Edmonton Pride, we want to highlight a fight for queer Charter Rights that took place in our own backyard, the Vriend v. Alberta case! 162
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsFeral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Every technology that allows one worker to produce what once required ten should be fantastic news. We could all work less. Instead the owner discovers he can sack nine people and keep the extra wealth. Technology isn't stealing our future. Ownership is. 10541371031
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I use Ubuntu just because of how much documentation and overall support it has available! I've heard from other Linux users that it has a bit of bloat, but so far that hasn't been a problem for me. 000
Reposted by e.g. Alice Robertsjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026browsing the AI coding reddits and seeing a lot of posts like "im outputting code at 100x the rate i used to but im getting a bit worried about the fact that nobody at the company understands any of our codebase anymore" and the replies range from existential crises to "its fine. this is the future" 561797186
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"Our society should be responsible to its members, providing education in new and engaging fields as previous work becomes redundant." 000
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"And if it were determined that the automation of certain positions was necessary and sustainable, we shouldn’t need to worry about unemployment, destitution or drudgery." 100
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"We should be able to decide which features would actually benefit humanity, and to do away with the ones that are wasteful and destructive." 100
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"A.I. doesn’t need to be a job-destroyer for some, or a glorified search engine for most. It shouldn’t need hundreds of “hyperscale” data centre facilities to meet prospective demand." 100
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"We need to move away from a system based in private ownership, where workers have to claw one another out of the way in order to support themselves, and towards collective ownership, where these technologies can be reviewed and managed for the benefit of us all." 100
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"In these unstable times, we have to remember that we're more than just our specific job or industry. We're a part of a greater class of workers, and these antagonisms that we're being confronted with aren't new." 100
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"From the steam powered machinery of the industrial revolution to 20th century robotics to the recent digitization wave, people continue to be jettisoned from there heretofore "stable" jobs by new technology, which is always heralded as the next big step for human civilization." 110
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsJeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 11/08/2026You can pry the City Centre Landmark Cinemas FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caEdmonton developer looks to buy downtown mall, convert half to housing | CBC NewsWestrich Pacific leadership and the city’s mayor say the reimagining of the property is a big step forward for downtown. 3172
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Excellent piece by Kim Il Sung about socialist construction and the role of the dotp, paired with a guide to help clarify terminology and historical conditions. Would highly recommend giving it a read if you're curious about what is to be done after the initial success of the revolution! 020
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsJeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Please, sir, I want to pay more.desmog.comAlberta Utility Bills Are Set To Spike And Data Centres Are To BlameAlbertans pay the highest electricity rates in the country and new gas plants for AI data centres could drive costs up further. 12311
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This just-released Canada Heritage survey is a stunning piece of anti-Palestinian propaganda weaponized vs. critics of the genocide at universities. It is a reprisal against the encampment movement. Look at the evidence of ‘antisemitism’: a prof calling Israel a Zionist project—as it attests to be. 920658
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsBread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 03/08/20261. The Primary Victory of Socialist Construction The first milestone in the transition from capitalism to socialism is represented by abolition of capitalist private property through the seizure of the means of production by a socialist republic and cementing the socialist system of economy - 121
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsBread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 31/07/2026From our new article What is Socialism? (breadandwildroses.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/w...) Within Marxism-Leninism socialism is recognized as being a system defined by a number of key features which come together in a society which adheres to the fundamental law of socialist society: 131
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsBread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 31/07/2026From our new article What is Socialism? (breadandwildroses.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/w...) Within Marxism-Leninism capitalism is recognized as being by a system defined by a number of key features which come together in a society which adheres to the fundamental law of capitalist society: 131
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsBread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 30/07/2026An excerpt from 'Anarchism or Socialism?' by J.V. Stalin, a reading in our Socialism 101: An Introductory Course (breadandwildroses.wordpress.com/socialism-10...). An IskraNote is now available for this work to help highlight key learnings and provide modern examples! 231
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsCommunist Party of Canada @compartycanada.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Depuis 31 ans, le Canada a voté contre le blocus américain à l'endroit de Cuba. La semaine dernière, Carney s'est abstenu. Le gouvernement doit dénoncer sans équivoque les menaces d'invasion militaire et briser sa complicité avec ce blocus. 🔗 communist-party.ca/fr/la-lache-... 043
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsGG TRIBUNE @ggtribune.com · 10/07/2026OPINION: I Think I Know How To Solve the Video Game Industry’s Problems ggtribune.com/2026/07/10/o... 191059443
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Not a book, but have you checked out It's Called Leninism's "The Wind of History" series on YouTube? Great biographical retelling of Stalin's life from childhood 241
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Seconding this, Losurdo gives an incredibly clear-eyed recounting that's far from hagiography. 010
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsJeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 03/07/2026Welcome to Alberta, where you get to choose between a party that loves fossil fuels and a party that loves fossil fuels and thinks renewable energy is ok too, I guess 422545
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026While it mainly looks at the Brezhnev years, The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union by W.B. Bland is a great resource on the USSR's revisionist turn and its consequences. The intro gives some insight into the interests that Khrushchev represented during his time in power. 021
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsWild Rose Marxist🌾 @wildrosemarxist.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Danielle Smith should go swim a couple laps in a tailings pond before she does her next press conference about how everyone who opposes oil and gas is an enemy of her short-sighted & corrupt petrostate. I think it would do wonders to help her see the other side's point of view. #abpoli #ableg 0126
Reposted by e.g. Alice Robertsbarbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I wrote about how AI is destroying my career and what it means that highly skilled jobs are being deskilled with nothing to replace them Link below 👇 11383112
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Excellent and unfortunately very relatable article about being on the frontlines of the massive AI automation push. The sword of Damocles is hanging over the heads of programmers, and every day, the rope holding it up becomes more thread-bare. 070
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/05/2026Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measurethebeaverton.comCarney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measureEDMONTON - I addition to his announcement lowering industrial carbon pricing specifically just for Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a plan to eliminate all of Canada's environment in o... 241131414
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026As communists, it's important to turn a critical eye to Orwell's widely lauded work. In a 2022 lecture, Comrade Jones Manoel of the Brazilian Communist Party highlighted the anti-worker and generally anti-historical attitude of the piece: redsails.org/jones-on-ani...redsails.orgA Critical Read of Animal FarmLet us broach a polemical subject. The British author George Orwell is very well known for works such as Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and his book about the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Cataloni... 010
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026The reviews are coming in for Andy Serkis' Animal Farm adaptation. For a movie that's been in development limbo for 15 years, it's no surprise that the reaction has been largely negative. But many of these reviews have an overwhelmingly positive regard for the source material. 100
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsThe Alberta Socialist @voxsocialism.bsky.social · 07/05/2026“Life expectancy rose during industrialization” is not the same thing as “fossil fuels improve lives.” Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Alberta oil sands communities, and coal-heavy regions of China and India all show the opposite: pollution cancer corruption shortened lives unequal wealth 1157
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsBread & Wild Roses @breadandwildroses.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Happy #mayday! This year to celebrate May Day, B&WR created volume 1 of our Revolutionary Hymnal. This includes 10 of the most historically significant songs to the socialist movement. breadandwildroses.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/s... 142
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsV. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Comrade workers! May Day is coming, the day when the workers of all lands celebrate Their awakening to a class- conscious life, their solidarity in the struggle against all coercion and oppression of man by man, the struggle to free the toiling millions from hunger, poverty, and humiliation. 116878
Reposted by e.g. Alice Roberts@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink 2118181688
e.g. Alice Roberts @socjavamon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Same goes for the slow murder of Canada Post. Tearing apart public institutions to create the new markets they desperately need. What a state of decay we are in. 010
Reposted by e.g. Alice RobertsWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15/03/2026#OtD 15 Mar 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated as revolution swept Russia in the February revolution (named according to the Julian calendar). The revolution began with a mass demo of working-class women now commemorated on International Women's Day stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8700... 111738