Update After 20 days on strike the HandyDART workers ratified a new contract. Over 600 workers at HandyDART in Metro Vancouver started strike action on September 3. HandyDART workers provide a vital public service, moving people with mobility issues door-to-door. They take people to and from medical appointments, for social trips and many other vital […]
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Socialist Alternative #30 This is a bumper 20-page issue! Contents include: Subscribe to Socialist Alternative! You can now subscribe to Socialist Alternative’s magazine for a modest $2 a month or $24 a year and receive each printed issue delivered to your mailbox. With an additional donation, you can become a sustainer of our magazine and […]
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Solidarity with Gaza … and more from Canada and abroad! Subscribe to Socialist Alternative! You can now subscribe to Socialist Alternative’s magazine for a modest $2 a month or $24 a year and receive each printed issue delivered to your mailbox. With an additional donation, you can become a sustainer of our magazine and build […]
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Over 500,000 Québec public service workers were on strike on Thursday, November 23. There were huge rallies across the province. This is the latest stage of the workers’ struggle to improve both their pay and conditions and the quality of public services. On November 6, 420,000 public sector workers in Québec’s Common Front of four […]
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Cristina is a member of ISA in Portugal. Education workers rise up against their precarity, bringing 150,000 onto the streets of Lisbon. New unions and methods of struggle appear and stir up the still waters of the established unions. The Decline of Public Education and the Challenges Workers Face Every Day Over the last five […]
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Cost of Living Adjustment Needed Overwhelmingly, 33,000 BC Government employees have voted with a 94.6 percent majority, for strike action as they try to get the NDP government to agree wages that maintain living standards. The union, BCGEU, had an extensive campaign to reach members on the issues and to vote, taking the campaign to […]
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Defeat this Victorian Lunch Tax! The Saskatchewan Party’s latest attack is to levy a charge of $100 per elementary school child to supervise them during lunch time. Yes, you read that correctly; charge not for the food but to supervise children. And what happens if the parent can’t afford it? Dustin Duncan, the Sask Party’s […]
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Greyhound has closed all its services across Canada. In 2018, it announced the closure of all its services in Western Canada and the federal government did nothing. This was a criminally missed opportunity to take over the entire, already-existing, Canada-wide bus network. Will they fail again this time? The loss of Greyhound leaves hundreds of […]
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Sonja Grusch is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Plugging the holes is not enough, it’s time for a revolution in education The question of whether to keep schools open or to close schools is a heated and polarized debate. Governments have done little, or nothing for months to prepare for the second, […]
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After a pause due to COVID restrictions, Socialist Alternative has produced a new 20-page bumper issue. For Socialist Reconstruction Canada “Reopens” to Uncertain Future For Climate and Jobs The Pandemic for Women’s Oppression The Dire State of Canadian Youth Police: A Tool of the Capitalist State Against Indigenous Peoples Capitalism Made COVID Disaster Kenny’s Attack […]
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