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.
Bill Onasch was a working class hero who awakened to the class struggle in the repressive 1950s. Bus driver, Litton Microwave factory employee, local union leader, Bill embodied the idea of the “organic intellectual of the working class.”
The warm rays of the sun appeared just in time for university workers and their supporters to take demands for decent income and job security to the streets of Toronto on Saturday, March 21. Over two thousand teaching assistants/graduate assistants,…
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Chow snatches defeat from the jaws of victory by Barry Weisleder Big business scored a big win in the October 28 Toronto municipal election. While voters rejected the mayoral bid of ultra-conservative, bully-Councillor Doug Ford, they put Bay Street big…
Evan Engering is running in the municipal election in Mississauga wards 3 and 5. Read the campaign platform here ELECT EVAN ENGERING SOCIALIST ACTION - SCHOOL TRUSTEE CANDIDATE - Mississauga WARDS 3 & 4 I am a student, labour…
Over 400 people rallied on Saturday, September 20 outside the uptown Toronto constituency office of Conservative Finance Minister Joe Oliver to demand a halt to Tory and Canada Post Corporation plans to eliminate home mail delivery and set higher prices…
Picket Tory Minister to Defend Postal Services All Out September 20! by Barry Weisleder Momentum is growing towards a monster mass picket and rally to defend Canada's postal services. The protest, set for Saturday, September 20, is against Canada Post…
Over 10,000 people will gather in Canada's capital city, Ottawa, Ontario, August 21-24, for the Peoples’ Social Forum. The PSF web site describes it as “a critical public space aimed at fostering activist involvement of individuals and civil society organizations…
Members and supporters celebrated the 20th anniversary of Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste with an international educational conference and a party convention held May 23-25, 2014 at the University of Toronto. The conference theme 'Capitalism is Organized Crime'…
Socialist Action has published this compilation of talks from our latest Trotsky School: Education for Activists Conference. A PDF version is available online HERE. This booklet contains the talks presented at the sixth annual Socialist Action Education for Activists Conference…
The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office initiated a “corruption and bribery operation” on December 17. About one week later, the Ministers of Economics, the Interior, and Urban Development all resigned after their sons were arrested. Events accelerated at a dizzying pace. Prime…
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…
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TROTSKY SCHOOL - Education for Activists Conference with special guest speaker Glen Ford, U.S. radio host of the Black Agenda Report Friday, November 15 7 p.m. Security, Surveillance and the Strong State Glen Ford, editor, Black Agenda Report, radio host…
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Youth for Socialist Action - presents a public forum - DISARM THE COPS! The July 27 police killing of 18-year old Sammy Yatim, another in a long string of unarmed victims shot to death by Toronto cops, raises questions: What…
