Socialist Action stands firmly in solidarity with Kurdistan workers who are demonstrating en masse for payment of long-delayed wages, for freedom of political prisoners, for an end to vicious repression, and for dissolution of the corrupt Kurdistan Regional Government. In recent…
Category: Statements
¡Heather Heyer, presente!
On Sunday August 13, Socialist Action members gathered in solemn solidarity with about 200 like-minded people outside of the United States Consulate to participate in a "Vigil for Charlottesville Anti-Fascists". The event was hosted by the Toronto International Workers of…
Socialist Action Policy on Basic Income
We are seeing a revival of the concept of basic guaranteed income (BI or GAI), both in Canada and internationally. The Ontario Liberal government is about to launch a pilot project. Prince Edward Island will do likewise, while other provincial…
Policy on Proportional Representation adopted at the 2017 SA/LAS Convention
The Trudeau Liberal government in Ottawa has reneged on a promise to reform the electoral system by introducing some variant of proportional representation (PR) that would replace the long-in-the-tooth Winner-Take-All system (aka First Past the Post – FPTP). PR was put…
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On the 106th Anniversary of IWD: For Feminism and Socialism!
A women's conference of the Socialist International in Copenhagen in 1910 launched International Women's Day globally in 1911. Trotskyist parties, including the predecessor organization of Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste in the Canadian state, re-launched the modern IWD…
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Solidarity with the York University Food Workers!
Socialist Action fully supports the militant Aramark workers, members of Unite Here Local 75 at York University. We say: Working people make the country run. Working people should run the country! Over 200 food service workers at York University went…
The “New” European Reformism and the Failure of the Broad Left Party Strategy
by Bob Lyons The capitulation of the SYRIZA government to the demands of European imperialism has sent shock waves across a wide section of the international Left for some very concrete and understandable reasons. This left developed in an academic…
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