Vancouver voters made history on Saturday, October 20, 2018 by electing veteran organizer and community campaigner Jean Swanson to city council in the city’s most important electoral victory in decades. She with one school board and two parks board candidates were all elected under the rejuvenated Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) banner. The campaign’s centrepiece […]
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Christopher Carroll is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. After a six day strike, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) on Tuesday, January 22, ratified a new contract with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). This was the biggest and most important strike yet in the nationwide teachers’ revolt that began in […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. President Trump’s has been forced to retreat from his demand that the Democrats agree to fund a border wall as the price for reopening the government.But while the Democrats refused, under pressure from their base, to cave to this demand, they were in no […]
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This is not the apocalypse . . . yet. But, the recent raging fires, droughts, hurricanes, floods, storms and melting ice feel like it. And these are only the impacts of a 1°C increase in global temperatures. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report stated with “high confidence,” that human activities have already increased […]
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The new leader of the Venezuelan right and far right, Juan Guaidó, (recently elected president of the counterrevolutionary national Assembly) has proclaimed himself President. He called on his supporters to take to the streets to force through the down fall of Nicolás Maduro’s government. Immediately, the most reactionary governments in Latin America and the world, […]
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Jagadish G. Chandra is a member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). Undoubtedly India’s recent 48 hour General Strike in January 2019, when nearly 220 million workers, peasants, agricultural labourers, street vendors etc. struck work will go down in history as a record-breaking one. Interestingly the previous record for largest general strike was also […]
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On Thursday, a reported 750,000 public sector workers went on a nationwide strike in Tunisia, called by the UGTT (General Union of Tunisian Workers, the main trade union organisation) against the pay freeze and other austerity policies imposed by the IMF, in collaboration with the current government of Youssef Chahed. Public services were largely paralysed, […]
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On January 19, when all over the world women, and men, march for women’s rights, Socialist Alternative Canada launched our new banner, “Women Rising: for Socialist Feminism.” Around the world a new women’s movement is emerging. We recognize that it needs to have a clear class analysis and be rooted in the everyday experiences of […]
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Leïla Messaoudi is a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France). The “yellow vest” movement in France has involved hundreds of thousands of people in demonstrations, blockades of roundabouts, main roads and toll booths all around the country, in big cities and in the countryside. Begun in mid-November, it has not even stopped during the […]
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