Sept. 15, 2023 | by Riley Joannah | Socialist Action The institutions which codify the binary view of gender harbour profound contradictions. When faced with the people they seek to regulate, these systems become torn in twain. On the one…
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Aug. 13, 2023 | By Barry Weisleder | Socialist Action Representatives of several organizations gathered on August 13 to celebrate the 97th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz on August 13 at a banquet hall in Mississauga,…
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June 25, 2023 | By Barry Weisleder | Socialist Action On Pride Day in Toronto, while over a million walked or watched the big commercial parade on Yonge Street, over a thousand rallied and marched to oppose police harassment of…
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by Rubina Chowdhury | Socialist Action Canada Homelessness is a situation in which an individual, family or community lacks safe, proper, and stable housing. The reasons behind homelessness are: systematic or societal barriers, financial instability, lack of employment opportunities, lack…
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by Tom Baker, March 27, 2023 On March 24 over 100 students and community members rallied in support of five students from the McMaster Divestment Project (MacDivest) who are on a hunger strike against a duplicitous “green washing” university administration. …
Read More McMaster students begin 2nd week of hunger strike for a fossil free university
Thursday, Oct. 28 at 7:00 p.m. EDT, watch the next live webcast, "A Generation Without a Future: Youth in Revolt," hosted by Karen H., and featuring Aviral D., Paige B., Nathalie H., Julian N., and Anthony F., all young members of Socialist Action…
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"The protest on Monday marked nearly one year since Regis Korchinski-Paquet fell to her death from a 24th floor apartment balcony last spring while police were in her home.
The memorial, news conference and march took place in honour of Korchinski-Paquet, 29, who died on May 27, 2020.
Speakers at a news conference denounced Ontario's Special Investigations Unit for clearing five police officers of wrongdoing in her death. The unit investigates the conduct of police that may have resulted in death, serious injury, assault or the discharge of a firearm.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/djQD5ExQ4Ks Join us for the first cross country Workers Action Movement (WAM) Conference which will take place online on Sunday, February 28, starting at 10 a.m. PST (Vancouver), 11 a.m. MST (Edmonton), 12 noon CST (Winnipeg), 1 p.m.…
Thursday, February 11 7 p.m. EST, 8 p.m. AST, 4 p.m. PT “How Socialists are Changing the New Brunswick NDP”, featuring Interim Leader of the New Brunswick NDP Christopher Thompson, plus John Nuttal, Natasha Akhtar and Chris Wanamaker Watch here:…
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The following greetings were presented by Elizabeth Byce, SA/LAS Canada to the annual convention of Socialist Action USA, which took place January 30, 31, 2021. Dear comrades of Socialist Action – USA, I bring you warmest revolutionary greetings from Socialist…
Corey David, Socialist Action candidate for City Councillor for Scarborough Agincourt speaks at solidarity picket with Tropicana Community Services workers. https://youtu.be/76ve_FQQX2s Sisters, brothers, comrades and friends, my name is Corey David. I'm here to express genuine and militant solidarity with…
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…
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”…
Thursday, October 15, 7 p.m. EST, 4 p.m. PT For Tuition-Free Post-Secondary Education, with Emily Steers, grad student and teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, plus Samantha Richards in Hamilton, and Nick Fast at U of Toronto. Follow this link to…
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Did anyone benefit from the COVID-19 pandemic? Billionaires did. Tobias Lutke is the 40-year old CEO of Ottawa-based e-commerce company Shopify Inc. He saw his personal wealth rise from $3 billion (U.S.) in March 2020 – to $8.5 billion in…
Socialist Action joined over a thousand Black students and their allies in a long March for Justice in Peel Region, forty minutes north-west of Toronto, on Wednesday, June 17. The demonstration, which began at the Brampton Courthouse and ended with…
Read More Socialist Action attends rally against police violence in Brampton!
WEBCAST - Socialism 2020, an international education conference online Saturday, June 6, with sessions at 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. https://youtu.be/RoGzJRICBTA 4 p.m. Capitalism is the Virus – pandemic, climate change, economic ruin and authoritarianism, France –…
