Canada’s 100 highest-paid corporate executives made an average of $14.3 million in 2021, exceeding the previous record of $11.8 million set three years earlier. By January 3, the average CEO on that list made $58,800, the amount an average Canadian worker earns in an entire year, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
On the domestic political landscape, the biggest development in the Fall was the two-day walkout by CUPE-Ontario education workers. They boldly defied a law pre-emptively banning strike action. CUPE and allies, including the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union, forced the Thug Ford Conservative government to rescind Bill 28 and its use of the notwithstanding clause to violate the Charter of Rights.
Socialist Action is a growing revolutionary workers’ party that puts a great emphasis on political education. At the same time, SA is an activist organization. It has many practical accomplishments to its credit, including achievements in local elections, in building a fighting left wing inside mass working class organizations, and in promoting international solidarity. From Iran to Haiti, from Britain to Ontario, 2022 has been a year of revolt against austerity, authoritarianism, and repression.
Medway Baker analyses the Winnipeg General Strike, and argues for a mass workers' party that prefigures the workers' republic.
by Barry Weisleder Questions: How do you know when a bourgeois politician is lying? When is a bourgeois politician in a conflict of interest? In the era of decaying liberal democracy, the corporate mass media occasionally identifies rich people in…
Canada Marches In Solidarity with Venezuela By Victoria Fleming Dozens of people, equipped with signs, flags, their resonant voices, and plenty of determination, rallied in front of the U.S. Consulate in Toronto on Saturday, September 16, to protest imperialistic actions…
Last year Canada surpassed the United States to become the country with the most rapid growth of inequality. The U.S. still has the largest income gap, but Canada is quickly catching up. Who controls Canada's wealth? The richest 20 per…
by Robbie Mahood National oppression and racism remain endemic features of capitalist states in the world today. In few, if any, does the national question play such a central role as in Canada. This is most clearly demonstrated in the…
by Barry Weisleder The scheme to curtail home mail delivery is part of a plan to gut the federal public sector, to shrink postal workers' pensions, to break a progressive, democratic union, and to sell-off lucrative remnants of Canada Post…
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Congratulations and thanks to all the guest speakers, members and supporters who helped to make the sixth annual Education for Activists Conference a success. Over forty-five people attended the Socialist Action Trotsky School at OISE U of Toronto. Security, Surveillance…
Read More VIDEO/PHOTO’S from Education for Activists conference TROTSKY SCHOOL 2013
by Barry Weisleder Too much ink already has been spilled to expose the antics of Toronto's crack smoking, drunk driving, serial lying, gangster-linked mayor. The butt of late night comedy TV, Rob Ford is merely the unvarnished version of the…
A perennial target of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's hateful policies is the federal public service work force. Harper claims that fat-cat public employees collect much bigger pay packets than their counterparts in the private sector. Unfortunately for the Tory regime,…
by Barry Weisleder How ironic would it be if Prime Minister Stephen Harper's ultimate downfall occurs due to a scandal involving some rip-off artists he appointed to the Senate, rather than as a consequence of Harper's bestial record on the…
In June 2012 the Conservative federal government made changes to the Telecommunications Act to allow foreign telecom companies to buy domestic operators that own less than 10 per cent of market share. The social democratic NDP and many labour unions…
by Lindsay Hinshelwood, assembly line worker at Ford Oakville, candidate for Unifor President on August 31, 2013 As a 15 year member of the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) I couldn’t buy the line that my union was merging with…
by Robbie Mahood Controversy over the rights of religious and cultural minorities has once again taken centre stage in Quebec ever since the minority Parti Quebecois (PQ) government of Pauline Marois declared its intention to introduce a Charter of Quebec…
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Chronic job insecurity, uneven growth and declining living standards mark the so-called recovery from the Great Recession that killed so many jobs in 2008-09. Statistics Canada reported in mid-August that, while the private sector gained 34,600 jobs, the public…
On August 19 the federal Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared its plan to prorogue the Canadian Parliament -- for the fourth time. Harper used prorogation in 2007, but subsequent moves to prorogue in 2008 and 2010…
by Barry Weisleder And the downbeat goes on. In sector after sector, from auto to steel to forestry to railways to the Ontario and Federal Public Service, to the federal postal service, bosses usually get the concessions they demand…
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