by Julius Arscott The call for mass anti-war actions on April 9, issued by the U.S.-based United National Anti-war Committee (UNAC), has been heard and answered in Canada. A January 14 membership meeting of the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War…
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Will NDP and Labour rise to the challenges of 2011?
Beyond North America, labour is on the march and the left is finding its voice again. Well into the third year of the global economic crisis, growing opposition to capitalist policies is fueled by layoffs, social cutbacks, rising school fees,…
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Stock Market Pension Plan is a Tory Scam
The latest brutal assault on the social wage is Ottawa's reversal on the Canada Pension Plan. Instead of enhancing the CPP, which federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty promised to do when he met with his provincial counterparts in Prince Edward…
Too much ‘sentiment’, not enough story
The surprise winner of the 2010 Giller Prize for best English-Canadian fiction, “The Sentimentalists” by Johanna Skibsrud (Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, 2010, 218 pages) is both an artistic and political disappointment. The judges went a little overboard with their laudable…
Harper sticks it to the anti-war majority
by Barry WeislederIn a bruising blow to government credibility and bourgeois decorum, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his minority Conservative regime extended the 'mission' of Canadian Forces in Afghanistan by three years, without even the formality of a debate and…
Successful Toronto Trotsky School 2010
by Barry Weisleder "Marxism versus Anarchism" was the biggest draw at the third annual Socialist Action Trotsky School in Toronto, November 19-20. The Saturday afternoon debate featured SA-USA leader Adam Shils, from Chicago, and Mick Sweetman, a member of the…
Calling all Israeli refugees … of Zionism!
by Barry Weisleder Sofa Landver, Israel's minister of immigrant absorption, is trying to lure at least 15,000 former citizens of Israel from around the world to go back home. She spoke in Toronto on November 24, after campaign stops in…
French Workers Continue to Resist
by Richard Wagman, Paris, 7/11/10Since the beginning of September the French labour movement has been mobilized in a series of strike actions and demonstrations, demanding the withdrawal of legislation modifying the national pension plan. This reform enacted by Sarkozy’s right-wing…
Education for Activists Conference
3rd Annual Toronto Socialist Action Trotsky SchoolNovember 19-20, 2010 at OISE, U of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. W. in Room 2-212, just above the St. George Subway Station Friday, November 19, 7 p.m.James P. Cannon – Building the revolutionary party…
FORUM: Why Canada lost its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat
- Toronto Socialist Action Presents -Why Canada lost its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat Did the U.N. say No because Liberal leader Ignatieff questioned the merits of the bid? Or was it due to the obnoxious positions of…
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