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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Judy Beishon is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Socialists Fight for Palestinian Liberation and Workers’ Unity The 70th anniversary of the 1948 foundation of the Israeli state is being marked this month in Israel. For Palestinian refugees, however, it marks only their ‘Nakba’, the Arabic word for catastrophe, when […]
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Empty classrooms and over 100,000 on the streets in strike called by the Sindicato de Estudiantes (SE) and Libres y Combativas, the socialist feminist platform of SE and Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in Spanish state) The general student strike on 10 May, called against the shameful sentencing of the ‘wolfpack’ rapists has been a great success. […]
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Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Marxist ideas more relevant than ever The 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Karl Marx is on 5 May. Marx, together with Friedrich Engels, formulated the ideas of scientific socialism which were to shake the world in the nineteenth […]
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Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Factory and university occupations in France. US civil rights and rage at the Vietnam war. Upheavals in Italy, Pakistan and Northern Ireland. Revolt in Stalinist Czechoslovakia. Repression in Mexico. Events in 1968 sent shockwaves around the world. Some years stand out […]
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Clare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In those days, there was a Cold War, but it was one between two very different social systems. The economies of the “West” were capitalist – based on private ownership and profit. In the “East” they were state-owned, bureaucratically-run, claiming to be “socialist” […]
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