THE RED REVIEW: Un journal de Socialist Action/Ligue pour l'Action socialiste 27 MARS 2024 April 12, 2024 | Translation by Hugo Pouliot Mais l'étape de l'assurance-médicaments est très fragile et a de nombreux et puissants ennemis. Les entreprises et les…
Category: Health
My Body is a Battleground; The Trans Fight for Liberation
Sept. 15, 2023 | by Riley Joannah | Socialist Action The institutions which codify the binary view of gender harbour profound contradictions. When faced with the people they seek to regulate, these systems become torn in twain. On the one…
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Ford’s Healthcare Privatization — A Slippery Highway to Hell
Well folks, he’s done it again. Ontario Premier Doug Ford retrieved the major tool in his toolbox: privatization. This time, Ford brandishes privatization to hammer on the nail that is the province’s healthcare system. As reported by the CBC last week, “Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones are planning to make an announcement next week on expanding the number and range of surgeries performed in independent health facilities outside of hospitals.” Independent health facilities are generally for-profit clinics operated by the private owners.
Socialist Digest – January 2023
Canada’s 100 highest-paid corporate executives made an average of $14.3 million in 2021, exceeding the previous record of $11.8 million set three years earlier. By January 3, the average CEO on that list made $58,800, the amount an average Canadian worker earns in an entire year, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Verified Twitter Fakes and Contradictions of Capital
On Nov. 10, Eli Lilly, one of three pharmaceutical companies that collectively dominate the global insulin market, tweeted out, “we are excited to announce that insulin is free now.” With the adorned blue check, normally an indicator of a verified…
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Interviews With TSSA Strikers
Nearly 200 members of OPSEU Local 546 are on strike against the Technical Standards and Safety Authority in Ontario. These front line workers inspect elevators, ski lifts, food trucks and amusement park rides. They check fuel-burning equipment, boilers and pressure vessels, as well as gas stations, propane dispensing stations and nuclear power plants. They are on strike because the TSSA, an agency that works at arms length from the provincial government, has been trying to make do with fewer safety inspectors, less regular inspections and less accountability. The workers need and deserve a wage catch-up.
Political Situation and Tasks Resolution for Socialist Action/Ligue pour l’Action socialiste, June 12, 2022
The global political situation is sobering, even dire, but its very volatility is pregnant with radically progressive potential outcomes.