by Barry Weisleder Dozens of activists gathered on March 8, or watched from afar live-streamed portions of the Workers’ Action Movement (WAM) Conference held at the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union Toronto Region Membership Centre. The theme was “Fight Austerity,…
Supporters of WAM met at the OPSEU Union Hall in downtown Toronto on March 8, 2020 to discuss the labour movement today and plans for the upcoming Canadian Labour Congress convention taking place in Vancouver in May. Discussions included running…
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Comrades of Socialist Action participated in events across Canada to commemorate IWD. In Toronto, the Socialist Action contingent walk with thousands in the International Women's Day parade on March 8, 2020. The theme was "The world is on fire. We…
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by Barry Weisleder For the first time in 23 years, the four main teachers' unions in Ontario went on strike at the same time. They did so to challenge the anti-education agenda of the Doug Ford Conservative government at Queen's…
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Friday, March 13 7 p.m. OISE 5-250 Harriet 2h5min The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of…
Canada out of the Lima Group, Core Group and OAS by Yves Engler “Qui se ressemble, s’assemble.” The English saying is “birds of a feather flock together.” Translated from Spanish: “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you…
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood McClelland & Stewart, 2019 By: Barry Weisleder Margaret Atwood's 2019 Man Booker Prize-winning sequel to “The Handmaid's Tale” offers a glimpse of a grim future, a post-Trump, totalitarian, arch-patriarchal society. It depicts a fragment of…
by Sandra Griffith-Bonaparte “What do we need? A contract! When do we need it? NOW!” After months of lies and deceit by the Trudeau Government and the Treasury Board, promising to return to the bargaining table with a fair offer…
For Feminism and Socialism! A women's conference of the Socialist International in Copenhagen in 1910 launched International Women's Day globally in 1911. Trotskyist parties, including the predecessor organization of Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste in the Canadian state,…
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by John McAnulty A second Sinn Fein government in Ireland will not advance the interests of the working class. "All is changed! Changed utterly!" That's the claim of many analysts in the wake of Sinn Fein's election victory in the…
