This is a revised copy of flyer distributed at the Peoples’ Social Forum in Ottawa, August, 2014. Compared with much of the world, Canada seems an island of stability. The economy has not been as ravaged by austerity, cuts and unemployment as most European countries or the US. There are no wars raging in Canada. […]
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Engels and women’s liberation It is 130 years since the publication of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, by Friedrich Engels. Long considered by Marxists an important text regarding the origin of women’s oppression, it has been criticized by those promoting alternative explanations of women’s second-class status in society. In the […]
Continue ReadingSocialist Alternative’s Seattle Councillor Kshama Sawant will be in Vancouver on Saturday and Sunday, September 27 & 28. Sawant will be speaking at a meeting organized by Socialist Alternative and Left Alternative Building the Socialist Movement 2 pm, Sunday, September 28 Room 1700, SFU Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street Vancouver) COPE (Coalition of […]
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Jane James and Jim Horton are members of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). World War One resulted in the horrific slaughter of millions of workers who were initially encouraged and then conscripted into the bloody horrors of trench warfare. Women too were cajoled to do their bit for ’the war to end […]
Continue ReadingHumanity is at one of the most important crossroads in its 200,000 year history. Having spread across the globe about 30,000 years ago, we advanced through various stages of hunting and gathering to develop agriculture and animal husbandry 20,000 years later. This began a shift from human muscle power to animal muscle power as our […]
Continue ReadingEljeer Hawkins is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “YOU took my son away from me. YOU know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate?! YOU know how many black men graduate?! NOT MANY! … cause you bring them down to this type of level, […]
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Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Iraqis and Kurds must not trust imperialist ‘helpers’ Millions of working people around the world have been shocked at the rapid advance of the extreme religious fundamentalists of ‘Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIS) who have now proclaimed the foundation of […]
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Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and other countries The bloody conflict in Ukraine, alongside the slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza, has brought the issue of the ‘national question’ once more forcefully onto the political agenda. How can we open a road to […]
Continue ReadingShahar Ben Horin is a member of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). Mass action needed to stop bloodshed Whole families burnt alive. Parents with children. Shajaiya neighbourhood in Gaza is complete rubble. Over 1,100 Palestinians’ lives have ended since 8 July, as ruthless inferno has rained down on this besieged, impoverished, and highly populated […]
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Alan Jones and Ty Moore are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the greatest labor revolts in U.S. history: the strikes of the Minneapolis Teamsters in 1934. Led by socialists, this historic strike opened an era […]
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