by Julius Arscott The Workers Action Movement, a grass roots alliance of labour militants that fights concessions bargaining and demands greater union democracy, is running a slate of candidates for top positions in the Ontario Federation of Labour. The vote…
by Barry Weisleder Canadians chose on October 21 to slap down Justin Trudeau and reduce his Liberal Party to minority government status with a million fewer votes than in 2015. As a result, there may be another federal election in…
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By Barry Weisleder Against the backdrop of fiery mass protests around the world, opponents of imperialism and social cuts gathered November 1-3 in Havana, Cuba. Over 1,300 delegates from 95 countries (including about 100 from the United States and 35…
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“Education for Activists” Conference November 15-16, 2019 at Woodsworth Residence, 321 Bloor St. W., Room 30, lower level. (at St. George station on the Bloor St. subway line). Friday, Nov. 15 7 p.m. Imperialism, Origins and nature of the system.…
Statement of the NDP Socialist Caucus on October 17, 2019 For an NDP Government. No Coalition with the Liberal Party. For Independent Working Class Political Action. No to ‘Strategic Voting’ and Lesser-Evilism. As the October 21 federal election draws near,…
by Dimitri Lascaris The Green Party of Canada declares that it “begins with the basic premise that all life on the planet is interconnected.” Yet, the Greens’ newly released electoral platform, consisting of eighty-two pages, says remarkably little about Canada’s…
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Canadian Unions Sharply Divided on Federal Election by Gary Porter On October 21 Canadians will elect 338 Members of Parliament. Since its high point -- winning 103 seats in 2011, making it the Official Opposition, which occurred when a Conservative…
Why the NDP is a field of battle. The question of the Canadian labour party, the party built by the trade union movement and the fusion with the former members of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation(CCF) , the antecedent social democratic…
Read More Why the NDP is a field of battle – In dialogue with comrades in the TF-FI
Stop the Cuts to Education in Peel ! Cuts Hurt Kids. Restore courses and jobs. Save Public Education from slasher Doug Ford. Come to the Protest Rally at the office of Kaleed Rasheed, Progressive Conservative MPP for Mississauga East-Cooksville, at…
Speech by Daniel Tarade, Member of Socialist Action, PhD Student in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Students are a canary in the coal mine. We are among those vulnerable groups that suffer stresses without buffer. We…
