Socialist Action/Ligue pour l'Action Socialiste joins with Bolivian former president Evo Morales, recently ousted in a military coup, and a broad section of public opinion to call for the immediate release of journalist Carlos Conjeo and artist Leonel Jurado,…
Read More Socialist Action Calls for Immediate Release of Bolivian activists
Once again the Post Office in France, backed up by the forces of the French state, is attempting to victimize those who fight for workers and their union rights. Gael Quirante, a leader of the Postal Section 92 workers…
Read More Statement of Solidarity concerning comrade postal worker in France, Gael Quirante
In 2016 and 2017 Socialist Action / Ligue pour l’Action socialiste (Canadian state) contributed to the formation of a new revolutionary political current in the Fourth International. It was based on a text which constituted a sound, principled and absolutely…
Read More SA/LAS in Dialog with the Trotskyist Fraction – F.I.
by Gary Porter The Gradual Civilization Act, passed by Parliament of the Province of Canada (pre-Confederation) in 1857, sought to assimilate Indian people into Canadian white settler society by encouraging “enfranchisement.” Enfranchisement meant giving up recognition as an Indian…
Read More The Indian Act in Canada – An Act of White Racism, Legal Status … and Paradox
We urge the labour movement in Canada, and its political arm, the New Democratic Party, to take the lead in campaigning that all states respect the indivisible sovereignty of Venezuela. Hands off Venezuela!
My name is Elizabeth Byce. I am the federal treasurer of the NDP Socialist Caucus. For thirty years I was an active member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. At the national convention of the CUPW in 1998 I…
Read More B’nai B’rith Smear Campaign Protest (Aug 29, Toronto)
Dear Friends, Fellow Workers, and Residents of Ward 1, I begin by acknowledging that the land on which we are standing is the traditional territory of many First Nations, including the Mississaugas of the New Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa,…
A joint statement by Socialist Action, Canada and Socialist Action, United States of America The recent imposition of a 25% tariff on steel imports to the United States and a 10% tariff on aluminum from Canada, Mexico, and the European…
The June 7 election of the Doug Ford-led Progressive Conservative Party to government in Ontario means an escalation of the class war against working people, visible minorities and impoverished social layers. The former right wing Toronto city councilor and brother…
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…
Read More On the 107th Anniversary of IWD For Feminism and Socialism!
À l’occasion du 107e anniversaire de la Journée internationale des Femmes Pour le féminisme et le socialisme! Une conférence des femmes de l’Internationale Socialiste à Copenhague de 1910 lança la Journée Internationale des Femmes à travers le monde en 1911.En…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Read More Policy on Proportional Representation adopted at the 2017 SA/LAS Convention
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…
Read More On the 106th Anniversary of IWD: For Feminism and Socialism!
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…
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…
Read More The “New” European Reformism and the Failure of the Broad Left Party Strategy
Once again, the leadership of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council and of several key union affiliates, is taking workers down the primrose path of liberal, middle class politics towards the October 2014 municipal election. Rather than host a…
York University's administration punished Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) for holding a rally on March 27 to demand divestment from Israeli Apartheid. York U Security also asked an alumnus and member of SAIA to leave the protest at Vari Hall…
Read More Hands Off SAIA! Defend Free Speech! Support the BDS Campaign!
