Public Services Archives

Socialist Alternative Magazine #3

April 30, 2016 ceulncmy

Fight for $15! Reconciliation Needs Housing and Healing TPP: Destroys Jobs and the Environment Housing Crisis in Vancouver and Toronto Pharmacare: The Right Prescription Work Sucks: We Need the Economy that Works for Workers Postal Workers Show the Way Upheaval in US Politics Québec Workers Mobilize: Union Leaders Demobilize 100 Years of Women’s Vote, but […]

The Poisoning of Flint

March 3, 2016 Philip Snyder

First published on the US Socialist Alternative website, January 27 2016 A state of emergency has been declared in the city of Flint, Michigan. A belated response to a severe lead contamination of the city’s drinking water – which itself was the result of a bid to save money, no matter what the human costs, […]

South Africa: Worker and student protests intensify

February 27, 2016 Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)

#OutsourcingMustFall campaign becomes point of reference for the working class Across South Africa protests and strikes by workers and students are continuing across the higher education sector. Protests at the University of the Free State (UFS) grabbed headlines on Monday night when protesting black workers and black students were attacked by white rugby supporters at […]

Strengthen Public Services for all Canadians

September 18, 2015 Socialist Alternative Canada

Stephen Harper famously said that “you won’t know Canada when I am through with it”. Since coming to power in 2006, he has systematically set out to further weaken Canada’s social safety net, cut essential public services, and eliminate agencies and programs that engage in advocacy, public policy and promote democratic engagement. Harper’s austerity agenda […]

Socialist Alternative Magazine #1

September 15, 2015 ceulncmy

Stop Harper, Turn Left! Build a Voice for 99% Healthy Environment and Good Jobs Canada’s Unions: A Powerful force for Change Strengthen Public Services for All Canadians Education – A Basic Right Idle No More Calls for Action … and more For printed copies, please send us an e-mail to [email protected] Please consider making a […]

Ebola inaction: symptom of a diseased system

November 9, 2014 Jon Dale

Jon Dale is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). In November 2013 there were no reports of the Ebola disease anywhere in the world. On 6 December a two-year-old boy died in Meliandou, a village in the forests of Guinea. His sister, mother and grandmother died in the following four […]