Update April 3. The city and workers have agreed a new contract based on the tentative agreement. Socialist Alternative still says the workers could have won a better contract, by using their power. Edmonton city workers from Civic Service Union 52 (CSU 52) were ready to take strike action on March 14 after rejecting the […]
Continue ReadingSocialist Alternative Youth invites young workers, students, and climate activists to come together and help rebuild the tradition of Earth Day in Vancouver. We all know that we need dramatic changes in our society to make the planet safe for us and for future generations. Today, a convergence of the climate movement with working-class struggles […]
Continue ReadingJoin us Sunday March 10 for a Socialist Feminist Perspective on International Working Women’s Day Today we are confronted with the devastating reality of climate change, war and imperialism as well as the harsh, everyday reality of women’s lives: precarious work, unequal pay, gender-based violence, threats to trans-women and LGBTQ rights. Women, Life, Freedom was […]
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Solidarity with Gaza … and more from Canada and abroad! Subscribe to Socialist Alternative! You can now subscribe to Socialist Alternative’s magazine for a modest $2 a month or $24 a year and receive each printed issue delivered to your mailbox. With an additional donation, you can become a sustainer of our magazine and build […]
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Ed Broadbent, leader of the federal NDP from 1975 to 1989, is often described as the “best prime minister Canada never had.” Maybe that’s an example of being damned with faint praise. It is certainly not aiming at a high bar, given many of the country’s Prime Ministers. Despite that, Broadbent undoubtedly made a strong […]
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After two months of rolling public sector strikes, starting on November 6, involving up to568,000 workers, the government of Québec has put forward an improved offer to the Common Front and another union, which the unions are putting to their members for a vote. There were two million strike days in November alone. The Common […]
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Over 500,000 Québec public service workers were on strike on Thursday, November 23. There were huge rallies across the province. This is the latest stage of the workers’ struggle to improve both their pay and conditions and the quality of public services. On November 6, 420,000 public sector workers in Québec’s Common Front of four […]
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As workers around the world continue to protest the Israeli military’s intensifying air and ground assault on Gaza, and in many cases their own governments’ support of this, those governments are taking repressive measures. Thousands around the world have been arrested at pro-Palestine public rallies, and such events have even been banned in countries including […]
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End the War on Gaza … and more from Canada and abroad! Subscribe to Socialist Alternative! You can now subscribe to Socialist Alternative’s magazine for a modest $2 a month or $24 a year and receive each printed issue delivered to your mailbox. With an additional donation, you can become a sustainer of our magazine […]
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Forty years ago, in the fall of 1983, BC was heading to a General Strike and then it was all called off. This was a defeat for BC’s unions and social movements, that opened the gates to cuts in public services and attacks on unions. The percentage of workers in unions has fallen more in […]
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