Vancouver’s political revolution is rolling forward. Jean Swanson is running again for City Council! This follows from the political earthquake she caused in last November’s city by-election. On June 9, at a rally at The Crescent in Shaughnessy, a Vancouver neighbourhood so tony it should be called Anthony, Jean Swanson announced she is a candidate […]
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Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Brazil has entered a time of political, social and economic convulsions. The brutal assassination of Marielle Franco, a PSOL (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade) councillor in Rio de Janeiro, reflected this convulsive era and the extreme polarisation which has opened up in Brazilian society. […]
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The hopes of the NDP pulling off a surprise victory didn’t materialize and Ontario workers are now faced with the prospect of the most right-wing government since the days of Mike Harris in the 1990s. Does this victory of a right-wing populist signify that Ontario (and, by implication, Canada as a whole – given Ontario’s […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. The world has moved closer to a trade war on multiple fronts as Trump’s administration rolls out its aggressive ‘America First’ trade policies, taking aim at both close US allies and major rivals. On 1 June, the US implemented its long threatened tariffs of 25 percent on steel […]
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Ontario’s June 7 election has heated up, not only because of the participation of Doug Ford, the so-called Canadian Donald Trump and apparent front runner, but because the outcome of the election itself is by no means certain. Since the New Year, Ontario politics have been anything but dull. At the start of 2018, it […]
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Socialist Alternative Canada reviews the winning of $15, and its role in this victory On June 1, workers in British Columbia got the first increase on the way to a $15.20 an hour minimum wage. BC is following Alberta and Ontario in moving to a minimum wage of $15 or more. Alberta will reach $15 […]
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Trudeau has capitulated to Kinder Morgan’s blackmail. Canada’s Liberal government will buy the existing pipeline that runs from Alberta’s tar sands to the port of Vancouver for $4.5 billion. It is now Trudeau’s pipeline. It will be up to his government to try to force through the pipeline expansion against mass resistance. Trudeau’s decision will […]
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Statement by Socialist Party (Ireland MPs) Ruth Coppinger, Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. Ireland voted by 66.4% to repeal the 8th Amendment, which had banned abortion in Ireland. This is a huge victory for a grass roots moment, in which the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) had a proud role. The dramatic and clear-cut ‘Yes’ […]
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Around the world people have watched in horror at the unfolding violence perpetrated by the Israeli state against Palestinian protesters in Gaza. Sixty were killed on 14 May alone, during protests against the moving of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The following day, 15 May, marked the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) – the forcing […]
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Keely Mullen and Calvin Priest are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. On May 14, the Seattle City Council passed a historic tax on Amazon and other big corporations to fund permanently affordable, publicly owned housing. The driving force behind this victory was the strength of our #TaxAmazon movement. Under the leadership of housing […]
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