Join 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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March 8 has become a day where liberal feminists acknowledge women’s progress over the past few decades. They gather at celebratory breakfasts or dinners to acknowledge the achievements of women who have pushed past boundaries (legal, professional or social) and made significant differences in their communities. But for most ordinary women, this day goes unnoticed. […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. As we enter a new year, it is evident that on many fronts the situation facing the human race is dire. Of course, there are commentators who insist the opposite (we’ll refer to them again later). But most people know the trendlines are bad. […]
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Andy Moxley is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The current slaughter carried out by the Israeli state in Gaza has posed the question of the genesis of the situation in Israel-Palestine. This is needed to seek a fundamental solution resulting in peace for all, the liberation of the Palestinian people and […]
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Women can never be free until the threat of violence is lifted from their lives. Whether violence stems from the brutality of war, from political activism or from their everyday lives — at work, in schools, on the streets or at home — violence is pervasive in the lives of many women. The International Day […]
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On Friday, September 22, Speaker of the House of Commons and Liberal Member of Parliament Anthony Rota introduced to the chamber “a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero.” He was not referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, seated a few metres away during the Ottawa stop of his North American tour to rally support for […]
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Workers Rising! Youth demand Socialism Alberta Toronto Rent Strikes Manitoba Election Fighting Caste Oppression Life of a Student What Makes Me Angry Women’s Safety Chile 1970 – 73, Revolution and Reaction US: Workers Strike Back Capitalism’s New Cold War BC Solidarity 1983: A Near Revolution Housing Emergency Capitalism’s Highway to Hell … and more from […]
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Cormac Kelly is a member of Socialist Alternative, England, Wales and Scotland On 11 September 1973, fifty years ago, General Augusto Pinochet launched his brutal military coup, drowning in blood the revolutionary movement that had been inspired by the government of Salvador Allende. For Marxists the study of history is not a passive diversion or […]
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Chris Stewart is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland), Bill Hopwood is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, 2020, Monthly Review Capitalist production…only develops … by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the worker. Marx, Capital The Robbery of Nature […]
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