Fight for $15 comes to Quebec
The Fight For a $15 Minimum Wage comes to Quebec
Continue ReadingFight for $15 comes to Quebec
The Fight For a $15 Minimum Wage comes to Quebec
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Quebec: Government attacks spark workers’ protests
Step up industrial action to defeat government plans Workers’ mass protests and the votes for strikes in the public sector, starting at the end of September, were triggered as a result of terms the Liberal Party government of Philippe Couillard wants to impose on new collective agreements, which expired at the end of March. This […]
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Socialist Alternative Magazine #1
Stop Harper, Turn Left! Build a Voice for 99% Healthy Environment and Good Jobs Canada’s Unions: A Powerful force for Change Strengthen Public Services for All Canadians Education – A Basic Right Idle No More Calls for Action … and more For printed copies, please send us an e-mail to [email protected] Please consider making a […]
Continue ReadingQuébec: A hot spring in the making?
Deirdre Grégoire is a member of Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec). Over 35,000 students are currently on strike in Quebec, and 75,000 took to the streets on 2 April to protest the Liberal government’s austerity measures. Though these numbers are impressive, they pale in the face of the “Maple Spring” student mobilization of 2012. Repression […]
Continue ReadingTOWARDS A HEATED SPRING
DEIRDRE GRÉGOIRE Alternative Socialiste 2 pm, Sunday, April 19 Room 1600, SFU Harbour Centre, (515 West Hastings, Vancouver) Quebec’s Liberal Government is launching an all out attack on public sector workers and services. They are attacking childcare, cutting wages and pensions, increasing electricity charges and bringing in widespread privatization in health and education. Last autumn […]
Continue ReadingQuebec: Towards a hot spring
Bruno-Pierre Guillette and Deirdre Grégoire are members of Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec). Disrupt them like they disrupt us! After the election of the Liberal party to office in the Province of Quebec last April, austerity was expected but no one had predicted the violence of this government’s measures. Since 1996, every Quebec government has […]
Continue ReadingQuébec elections: victory for the Liberal Party : A wind of reaction ?
Bruno-Pierre Guillette and Deirdre Grégoire are members of Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec). On April 7th 2014, the Québec Liberal Party (PLQ) won a majority government with 70 MPs elected (41.2 % of votes), despite widespread allegations corruption. The PLQ campaigned mainly on the claim of providing jobs and opposition to the PQ’s Charter. The Parti […]
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Quebec: General Election Kicks Liberals out
Joshua Kortiz is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Bruno-Pierre Guillette is a member of Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec). On 4 September, Quebec voters elected the Parti Québecois (PQ) to lead a minority government, with Pauline Marois as the first female prime minister in Quebec history. On the heels of the mass […]
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