My name is Lisa and I am a member of Socialist Action USA, from its Minneapolis branch. I thank SA Canada for inviting me to speak (to the “Revolution or Ruin” conference, November 21). I look forward to hearing your…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sizIx-ByTvM Thursday, November 12, 7 p.m. Will the Pandemic Ever End? With leading SA member Daniel Tarade, a PhD candidate in laboratory medicine and pathobiology at the University of Toronto, Siobhan O’Brien, a senior PhD candidate at the U of…
For a General Strike to Kick Out Jason Kenny and the UCP! On October 18 the United Conservative Party adopted a plan for a privately-funded, privately-managed health care system to operate alongside the public Alberta Health Services (AHS). The decision…
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by Gary Porter, The October 24 provincial election in British Columbia was called by New Democratic Party Premier John Horgan after 3 years of a 4-year “supply and confidence agreement” with the Green Party of BC. John Horgan’s calculation was…
https://youtu.be/10GeHqSUSmc From Yuri muckraker: 'In this episode of 1+1, I had the great luxury to speak to Daniel Tarade a university student, and activist part of Socialist Action Canada and NDP Socialist Caucus. We talk about the global Mental Health…
Socialist Action - Canada presents an internationalEducation for Activists Conference“Revolution or Ruin” An online gathering to address the multiple crises of world capitalism WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/nuLDI5rZ_xE Saturday, November 21, 2020 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time “The Change We Need”Kathy McDonald, Trustee on the…
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Thursday, October 29, 7 p.m. EST, 4p.m. PT How to Build a Revolutionary Party Today, with Henry Heller, professor of history at the University of Manitoba, Gary Porter, Socialist Action organizer in British Columbia, and Suzanne Weiss, author of “Holocaust to Resistance”…
by Barry Weisleder The growing instability of capitalist rule is evident in the Canadian state and economy, where a minority government tries to grapple with the devastating effects of the pandemic. Rapidly shedding the COVID lock-down measures imposed in March,…
by John Clarke (July 23, 2020) Two recent developments in the United States seem to capture just how the destructive profit-driven irrationality of capitalism renders it incapable of effectively containing the present global pandemic. On July 10, the US recorded…
Thursday, July 30 7 p.m. The Mental Health Crisis under Capitalism, with presenter Daniel Tarade, and discussants Judy Koch of Socialist Action, Greg Luca from Fridays for Future, Sebastian Mendoza-Price, and Loretta Fisher from Spring magazine. https://youtu.be/9aqfaTiGVEU For more information, including…
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By Barry Weisleder World War 1 spawned the Russian Revolution, the Winnipeg General Strike, and spurred union recognition. Following World War 2, out of the debris of fascism and holocaust, the industrial unions, the labour-based NDP, and the welfare state…
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Thursday June 25 7 p.m. eastern time: The Authoritarian State bolstered by COVID-19. Host: Elizabeth Byce. Speakers: John Clarke, co-founder of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, and John Wunderlich, Board Member MyData.org https://youtu.be/wQjCB86XXDU For more information, including links to past webcasts and other…
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