A Shorter Working Week

Getting Off the Treadmill “Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living Barely getting by, it’s all taking and no giving They just use your mind, and they never give you credit It’s enough to drive you crazy if you let it.”  Dolly Parton, “9 to 5,” 1980 It will come as […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #18

The newest issue of our magazine Socialist Alternative is now published. Stolen Lives Stolen Land Alberta’s Misery Continues Slashing Cuts in Newfoundland and Labrador Ontario Education Shambles UniteHere! The Struggle Continues Fight For Sick Pay: Join a Union! Life of a Grocery Worker “Can’t Have Capitalism without Racism” The Road to Peace in Israel/Palestine … […]

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Book Review: Marx at the Arcade

George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Video games can be light entertainment or serious art, but they’re also big business. 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V currently stands as the most financially successful entertainment product in history. In recent years, the video game industry has come under increasing scrutiny […]

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Ireland: The Legacy of the Debenhams’ Struggle

Michael O’Brien is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). It can take the passage of time, years in fact, to have a sense of a particular strike’s place in history. Among trade unionists, socialists, activists, and sometimes the wider working class, disputes such as the six-month-long strike of An Post workers in […]

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May Day: Organize to Fight for Global Socialism!

International Socialist Alternative and Socialist Alternative Canada extends May Day greetings to all socialists, trade unionists and fighters against oppression and capitalism around the world. It was the Second Socialist International, which at its founding conference in 1889 decided to hold demonstrations the following year for an 8-hour working day. From the beginning, the demonstrations […]

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Suez Canal Blocked

Anne Engelhardt is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). (Human) Crisis in Maritime Shipping Industry For six days the Ever Given, one of the biggest global container ships in the world, blocked the Suez Canal. Having navigated into a sand storm, it turned sideways and got stuck in the shallow waters of the […]

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Amazon Plays Dirty in Bessemer Union Drive: Mass Solidarity Needed

Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Vote counting starts at the end of March, and Amazon will likely use every trick in the book to challenge ballots from union supporting workers to drag the union drive into the courts and delay a final ruling until late April. The deep south […]

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Employees of Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama and their suporters demanding a union

Bessemer, Alabama: Where 5,800 Davids Are Taking on Goliath

Joshua Kortiz is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The eyes of working people throughout the nation are focused on Bessemer, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama where Amazon Fulfillment Center workers are voting for union recognition. Over 5,800 brave workers are taking on a goliath of the modern age: Amazon and the richest […]

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South Africa: Build for Continued Action Against the Bosses’ Budget!

24 February: Protest and Stay-Away against the bosses’ budget! Build for continued mass action! The Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) supports South African Federation of Trade Union’s call for a National Stay-Away on February 24, when finance minister Mboweni is set to deliver another dose of brutal austerity in his budget speech. It’s #TimeToFightBack — as […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #17

Capitalism’s COVID Disaster Women Organize Against Oppression Indigenous Struggles Continue The Struggle for Jobs and Climate US – China Cold War Will Continue Latin America: Struggle Returns Unite Here: A Fighting Local in BC Housing Crisis Ahead If you’d like to order paper copies, email us [email protected] Please make a donation towards our costs and […]

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