Webcast 34th Annual SA Celebration of International Workers’ Day, Saturday, May 2, 7 p.m. with a number of speakers and entertainers, chaired by Elizabeth Byce. https://youtu.be/3_LJwZZolYs with guest speakers: John Clarke, co-founder, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Naila Saeed, Indocanadians4humanity.…
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by Robbie Mahood (March 13, 2020) Among the mass protests that erupted in various parts of the globe in 2019, the case of Chile is outstanding. Chile has long been regarded as a neoliberal success story, a country that had…
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As temperatures plunge, the conflict between Ontario teachers and the Doug Ford Conservative government is heating up. With exaggerated budget deficit figures in tow, the Tories decided to pick a fight with educators by increasing the size of classes and…
by Emily Steers Three years ago, a group of graduate teaching assistants began a campaign to unionize the TAs at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, about 100 km west of Toronto. Laurier was one of the only Ontario universities…
Video of each of the sessions at the Education for Activists conference, November 15-16, 2019 in Toronto is now available! Working class politics — The crisis of the labour movement, lessons of the federal election, and a strategy to win.…
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Environmental destruction isn’t driven by human nature or mistaken ideas. It is an inevitable consequence of a system built on capital accumulation. Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus spoke at an educational conference organized by Socialist Action in Toronto, on…
Mississauga Socialist Action presents a public forum on Fight the Education Cuts in Peel Speakers: Karen Ebanks, secondary school teacher, member of OECTA. Daniel Tarade, U of Toronto PhD candidate in Science and member of Socialist Action. Sabia Khan, community…
[From December 2016 Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper] by Jessica Sikora, Erin Warman, OPSEU; Cory Weir, Unifor; David Anderson and Suleman Bashrat, UniteHere; Kim Abis, CUPE; Brianna Broderick, USW; Alexander Lambrecht, Northern Territories Federation of Labour In the waning hours…
By: Julius Arscott President, OPSEU Local 532 Members of the Ontario Public Service (represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union) are being asked to ratify a three year (2015 – 2017) concessionary tentative agreement. While many of the major…
by Robbie Mahood Since it was elected with a majority in 2014, the Quebec Liberal government of Philippe Couillard, has embarked on an aggressive austerity drive aimed at liquidating the social gains remaining from the class and national insurgency of…
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Warmest solidarity greetings from Socialist Action/Ligue pour l'Action socialiste for Pride Week 2015. We celebrate the growth of queer liberation internationally. The latest victory is the spectacular referendum win for same sex couples on May 22 in Ireland. 62.1% of…
Teaching assistants at the University of Toronto, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3902, voted by a margin of 942 to 318 to send all outstanding issues to binding arbitration. That ends the strike for about…
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Strikes for social justice have taken hold of Canada's two largest universities. 6,000 members of Local 3902 (unit 1) of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are on legal strike against their employer, the University of Toronto (U of…
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…
by John Wilson On New Year's day 2014 there's not much to celebrate for those who are unemployed, low-waged, who rely on welfare, or live on disability benefits in Ontario. To make matters worse, only 35 per cent of the…
By SANDRA EZQUERRA — BARCELONA — The debate in political circles and in the media in recent decades around the question of abortion has been accompanied by a growing monopoly ownership of the defense of the right to life by…
Published November 24, 2013 | By Socialist Action U.S.A. By CHRISTINE MARIE The following presentation was given by Christine Marie, representing Socialist Action at a Nov. 10 forum in Philadelphia called Feminist Rebellion Today. The other panelists were Preeti Pathak, Co-Chair…
