January 13, 2025 | by Barry Weisleder The Socialist Caucus, which produced the statement below, is a movement of Ontario NDP members devoted to advocating socialist policies and a working-class agenda. Background On December 21, 2024, delegates to the 2025…
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Editorial – Contre toute attente, le premier pas vers l’instauration d’un régime universel d’assurance-médicaments au Canada a été franchi
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…
Socialist Caucus demands: Immediately Reverse the Expulsion of Ontario MPP Sarah Jama from the NDP caucus at Queen’s Park. Failing that, Conduct a Review of the Leadership of Marit Stiles
"The totally unacceptable decision of Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles on October 23 to expel Hamilton Center MPP Sarah Jama from the caucus of Ontario NDP MPPs is a frontal assault on democracy and social justice. It is nothing less…
Malheurs du Milieu de l’été : Climat, Guerre et Itinérance
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…
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Olivia Chow, a vote for mediocrity, evasion and capitalist rule
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…
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Socialist Digest – February 2023
Discontent with the capitalist status quo is spreading rapidly. At the forefront are mobilizations in France against President Emanuel Macron's reform of the country's retirement law. Under Socialist Party President Francois Mitterrand and up to the 1990s the legal retirement age with full pension was 60 years. Since then, right wing governments have pushed it up to 62 years. Macron announced a move to raise it to 65 years, but backed down. He now proposes age 64. Mass action involving strikes and demonstrations, one day at a time, usually once or twice a week, have followed the parliamentary calendar. More militant sectors in the union movement have been calling for renewable strikes from one day to the next, towards a general strike.
Nationalize the Irving Empire – Why Socialists Demand It
The policy of the Socialist Caucus includes nationalization of the Irving Empire, under workers’ and Indigenous control. In practice, and by being true to our working class roots, we will change New Brunswick and the world for the better.