par Barry Weisleder | Secrétaire fédéral de l'Action socialiste SA/LAS Canada a 26 ans. Mais SA/LAS n'est pas apparue soudainement. Elle n'a pas surgi de la tête de Zeus. Elle a émergé organiquement à partir de conditions concrètes. Pour comprendre…
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Par Barry Weisleder, secrétaire fédéral Socialist Action Canada/Ligue pour l'Action socialiste Ce jour-là, le 26 juillet 2023, des millions de personnes ont célébré la Journée de la rébellion à Cuba. Il y a soixante-dix ans, Fidel Castro a dirigé l'expédition…
Read More Malheurs du Milieu de l’été : Climat, Guerre et Itinérance
Incorporant des écrits d'Ernest Mandel et Robbie Mahood, édités par Barry Weisleder pour une présentation le 4 mai 2022 L'oppression nationale et le racisme sont des caractéristiques fondamentales des États capitalistes dans le monde d'aujourd'hui. Dans peu d'entre eux, la…
by Barry Weisleder | Socialist Action Canada On this day, July 26, 2023 millions celebrated Rebellion Day in Cuba. Seventy years ago, Fidel Castro led the Granma expedition that launched the Cuban Revolution. Socialist Action is a member of the…
July 11, 2023 | by Barry Weisleder, Federal Secretary | Socialist Action First, I warmly welcome all the new and returning members of the SA Central Committee, and other party bodies elected at the June 11 SA convention. Together we will…
Read More Wild Fires, a Troubling Mutiny, and Class Struggle Politics
by Barry Weisleder | Socialist Action Canada Among the 102 candidates in the June 26 Toronto mayor by-election, former city councilor and MP Olivia Chow is certainly not the worst. Among the establishment contenders, she appears slightly to the left…
Read More Olivia Chow, a vote for mediocrity, evasion and capitalist rule
"Kill a worker, Go to Jail" is the chant that expresses the demand of the labour movement to hold accountable bosses who subject their employees to unsafe, even fatal working conditions. On average, three people per day die in a…
Read More Day of Mourning for Workers Who Died on the Job near Toronto City Hall
The gig economy presents a significant opportunity for capitalists to counteract the decline in the rate of profit. In response to the profitability decline since 1997, which was exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, capitalists aim to increase the intensity of work and tighten labour discipline to extract more surplus value from workers. Gig work capitalists take advantage of workers' job precariousness, and they enjoy the absence of unions, which enables them to heighten this trend. The clear solution to this exploitative relationship is public ownership of the platform, which after all is a means of production similar to the machinery in a car factory. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to develop a political strategy and a set of tactics with transitional demands that will unite gig workers themselves, unite them with other workers, and together resist the capitalist offensive.
Over 124,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and around 35,000 Union of Taxation Employees are now in a legal strike position. Though some of them are designated "essential", PSAC says that over 100,000 staff could still…
By Jeff Mackler Friday, March 31, 2023 What the corporate media ban from their coverage of the unfolding and ever massive French protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to add two years to the French retirement age, from 62 to…
Read More Mass French strikes and mobilizations challenge Macron’s pension reform
