As post-secondary students begin a new semester, many will be thinking about what they expect to get out of their education. Some students are driven by curiosity and a genuine desire to gain knowledge, or by the desire to make a positive difference in the world. However, most students are there because they’ve been told […]
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It’s no secret that younger generations are increasingly pessimistic about the future. The rising cost of living, climate change, and budget cuts to health care and education are some of the reasons. Young people often must decide between going to school, racking up tens of thousands of dollars of debt, or entering the workforce immediately, […]
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The Enough is Enough Campaign has been launched by various figures from across the labour movement because, as RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch says “people are fed up with the way they’re treated at work. We need to turn that mood into real organisation on behalf of the working class”. Working class people are facing […]
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Meaghan Murray is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is being touted as the largest climate bill in U.S. history – but what does that actually mean, when the bar was so low to begin with? President Biden’s original climate legislation for the IRA crumbled in mid-July, when […]
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Inflation is soaring and devastating workers’ living standards. Every trip to the food store brings a new shock. Canada’s official inflation rate was an 8.1 percent increase in June over May, the painfully worst increase in 40 years. To add to the pain, the Bank of Canada raised its prime interest rate from 1.5 percent […]
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Bia Lacombe is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. How Working People & Socialists Won Last month, thousands of local activists and young people in Seattle won a landmark victory in the abortion rights struggle — led by the office of socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, we succeeded in our fight to make […]
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A tragic shootout at my neighbourhood Bank of Montreal, near Victoria, recently left two people dead and six injured, grabbing national headlines. And news coverage of this event casually mentioned that this same bank — which is just across the street from the bank I use — had been successfully robbed just four months before: […]
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One unelected Supreme Court judge has overturned the democratic decision of the City of Vancouver. The ruling backs the greed of landlords over the need of people. In November 2021, Vancouver council agreed, with only one vote against, to implement rent control on Single Room Accommodation (SRA). These small units, about 100 square feet and […]
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Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In kicking abortion rights back to the states, the right hoped that they’d see a clear path to near-total abortion bans across the country. Well, the results this week in Kansas should serve as a kick in the teeth. In a landslide victory, and […]
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Sixty years ago, North America’s first socialist government, in the heart of the Canadian prairies, Saskatchewan, enacted one of the demands outlined in its manifesto: a free, public health care system. This new program was enacted on July 1, 1962. However, this was not without a struggle, as on the first day of its enactment, […]
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