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About John Clarke

John Clarke became an organiser with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty when it was formed in 1990 and has been involved in mobilising poor communities under attack ever since.
  • Visions of Canada Burning / Photo: Duncan Rawlinson / CC BY-NC 2.0

    Capitalism is burning the world: Canada’s wildfire season

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 5, 2025 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Canada’s new liberal prime minister has given the lie to the notion that a green capitalism is possible with fossil-fuel friendly policies as the climate crisis intensifies, explains John Clarke.

  • In 2023, peaceful activists involved in the pro-Palestine movement pasted posters and splashed red paint on the windows of an Indigo bookstore in downtown Toronto. Screenshot courtesy CP24/YouTube.

    Political policing in Canada

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on April 16, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The attack on the Indigo 11 is part of a systematic effort to disrupt and contain the growing Palestine solidarity movement.

  • Carbon Capture Technology. Photo: A Peabody Energy, Inc./ Wikimedia Commons / CC BY- 3.0

    Carbon capture: False hopes and harsh realities

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 6, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Do not buy the fossil-fuel industry’s hype about carbon-capture technology, even the schemes that work cannot be scaled up to the necessary levels, explains John Clarke.

  • London banks. Photo: Public Domain

    Debt-based speculation surges

    Originally published: Counterfire on November 29, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Reckless financial speculation almost broke the world economy in 2008, but it has returned in new forms, showing capitalism’s inherent tendency to create crisis, argues John Clarke.

  • Photo by Stephen Sizer

    Truth takes a side

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on November 7, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Understanding and truth are our best weapons against an exploitative society based on lies.

  • School students striking for climate justice, Westminster, February 2019. Photo: Facebook/Nottingham People’s Assembly

    Emissions increase as climate disaster intensifies

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 29, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    CEOs state outright that profit must come first, even as this year’s deadly heat waves providing worrying evidence of the rising climate emergency, reports John Clarke.

  • "There is no Planet B" placard, Photo: Ivan Radic / CC BY 2.0

    On the edge of the ‘climate abyss’

    Originally published: Counterfire on May 15, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    With scientists warning of imminent catastrophe, it is time to stop expecting our rulers to change course by persuasion; only militant anti-capitalism will work, argues John Clarke.

  • Canadian wildfire smoke hits Minneapolis, May 2023. Source: Chad Davis - Wikicommons / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0

    Canada faces another grim wildfire season

    Originally published: Counterfire on April 18, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    The wildfires in Canada kept burning all winter, and a new season is set to be catastrophic, as climate feedback loops accelerate disaster, warns John Clarke.

  • Bank of England. Photo: Flickr/Alexander Johmann

    Central bank independence as class war strategy

    Originally published: Counterfire on March 27, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Insulated from popular discontent, independent central banks have free reign to undermine workers’ rights and further the neoliberal agenda, argues John Clarke.

  • A polling official confirms a voter's identity during the Pakistani general elections in July 2018. Photo: Commonwealth Secretariat on Flickr

    Social crisis underlies Pakistan’s election upset

    Originally published: Counterfire on February 14, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Pakistan’s stalemated election showed that its ruling class is unable to contain the cascading social crisis in the country, but a genuine alternative is lacking, argues John Clarke.

  • Selina Robinson. Photo: Province of British Columbia / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

    Palestine ‘a crappy piece of land’ claim sparks outrage

    Originally published: Counterfire on February 7, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    The resignation of a provincial minister in Canada over anti-Palestinian comments marks a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, reports John Clarke.

  • Fort McMurray, Alberta. Photo: kris krüg / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED

    Canada’s oilsands are a toxic nightmare

    Originally published: Counterfire on January 31, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    The poisonous waste, and deadly carbon emissions produced by oilsands production is even worse than had been thought, and production must stop, argues John Clarke.

  • Baku Oil Pumps. Source: Ceever - Wikicommons / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY-SA 4.0

    The climate charade continues

    Originally published: Counterfire on January 12, 2024 (more by Counterfire)  |

    With fossil-fuel interests now openly and repeatedly in charge of Cop summits, their failure of legitimacy must be confronted, argues John Clarke.

  • Nick Dearden, Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health (Verso 2023), 336pp.

    ‘Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health’ – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 7, 2023 (more by Counterfire)  |

    Pharmanomics is an important book that shows how Big Pharma’s profit seeking damages health care globally, but the solution lies outside the current system, argues John Clarke

Monthly Review Essays

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    Iker Suarez A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal, 2021.

    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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