Forty years ago, in the fall of 1983, BC was heading to a General Strike and then it was all called off. This was a defeat for BC’s unions and social movements, that opened the gates to cuts in public services and attacks on unions. The percentage of workers in unions has fallen more in […]
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Against War & Terror For several weeks Socialist Alternative and Socialist Alternative Youth joined thousands of others in solidarity with the suffering of Palestine people at rallies in downtown Vancouver. Similar rallies have been held across Canada, some of which we have attended, and around the world. We will continue to support and build for […]
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Uri Bar-Shalom Agmon and Tuvaal Klein are members of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). The residents of the Gaza Strip are facing hell on earth, while the massacre of revenge led by the Netanyahu-Ganz government is increasing. The poet, journalist and social activist Ahmed Abu Artema was injured in the bombing that also claimed […]
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The death of Li Keqiang from a heart attack at the age of 68 has triggered a renewed struggle between the dictatorship’s vast online censorship machinery and the masses whose only semi-legal channel for expression is the internet. Li Keqiang who was China’s premier from 2013 until March 2023, nominally ranked as the second most […]
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Ben Jungster is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). Since the beginning of the war in Gaza there have to been protests with thousands of participants all over the world. In Germany they face repression, police brutality and defamation, which include systemic racism. The police in various cities such as Berlin and Hamburg […]
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Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). The Finance Minister and candidate of Unión por la Patria recovered from defeat in the Primaries where he had obtained 27.27% and this time he won, with 36.63%. La Libertad Avanza, Milei’s party, this time did not advance, obtaining 30.02%, practically the same votes […]
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Tim Heffernan is retired Ontario Teacher and OSSTF activist. The leadership of the union representing 60,000 high school teachers and educators in Ontario (OSSTF) is taking its membership into uncharted and dangerous waters as it bargains with the Ontario government. The union has accepted a government proposal to agree to binding arbitration. Contract talks will […]
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Leon Pinsky is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. People across the world are watching with horror as we approach the third week of the extreme escalation in the Middle East. Mass protests have erupted globally in solidarity with the Palestinian masses as they face heavy bombardment by the Israeli regime. The major […]
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Build a Powerful Movement for Indigenous Rights More than 39% of the population have made clear that they want something to change. This is an excellent place to start rebuilding a powerful movement for Aboriginal rights. Activists should not take this as a sign to retreat or become fearful of other working-class people. Instead, it […]
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Paul Smith is a member of Alternatywa Socjalistyczna (ISA in Poland). A mass mobilisation of women and youth in Poland’s recent parliamentary elections has defeated the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party. After 8 years of nationalist poison, corruption, cronyism, the erosion of democracy, the fusion of state and party, the plundering of state […]
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