Sci-Hub is a great example of building up dual power, but at some point, academics and the masses need to organize around expropriation of the scientific communication industry. In Canada, over $100 million CAD of public funds is spent on publishing articles and subscribing to those same articles. Not $100 million on the research or writing of articles but on the publishing and access to those publicly-funded articles. These paywalls sow distrust in science and diverts money from actual research. It allows for scientific perversion and sensationalism, where reproducibility plummets and retractions skyrocket. Publicly-funded and open article repositories like arXiv and bioRxiv cost less than $1 million a year and host more articles than any for-profit journal. And the peer review process that for-profit journals tout is provided by unpaid volunteers. Democratize and nationalize scientific publishing! We need science for the people not for profit! https://socialistcanada.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/booklet-for-public-ownership-and-democratic-control-of-scientific-publishing-v4-1-1.pdf