Li Yong and Vincent Kolo are contributors to chinaworker.info. Most significant protests since the 1989 Democracy Movement. At the time of writing police are massing in Chinese cities in an effort to stamp out the recent protest wave. Protests continue at universities. The coming weekend could see new street protests in cities across the country. […]
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Women must be safe in and around sports Women in hockey have made major strides forward in the past decade. Canada’s national women’s and girls’ teams continue to regularly win international trophies, the percentage of girls enrolling in youth hockey is increasing along with other sports, and women have broken through into the ranks of […]
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This is a statement by ISA’ International Women’s Bureau. Protest with ISA and Rosa on the November 25 (and 26) “Woman, life, freedom” — This is the main slogan the masses in Iran have been shouting on the streets after the brutal killing of the 22 year old Jina (Mahsa) Amini. From Kurdistan to Azerbaijan, […]
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The defeat of Bolsonaro at the polls and the election of Lula opens a new scenario for the class struggle in Brazil. The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Socialism and freedom party or PSOL) now has to decide whether to return to its original project of building an independent left alternative or to capitulate to the […]
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Written by Socialist Alternative members in Ontario. “As a mom, I don’t like this deal. As a worker, I don’t like this deal.” With these words Laura Walton, the leader of CUPE Ontario’s 55,000 education workers, recommended voting yes to the offer from the Doug Ford government. Why should union members vote for a bad […]
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In early November, as BC’s southern interior got cold enough to be life threatening, a group of community service organizations operating shelters sent a joint letter to municipal officials, Interior Health, and BC Housing essentially withdrawing their services. The letter calls BC’s response to the homelessness crisis “an exercise in futility, at best” and went […]
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For almost 50 days, workers at 7 refineries across the country have led a strike that has shaken both the oil giants TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil, as well as the Macron government. The powerful strike movement, which was beginning to spill over into other sectors, carried the potential for a major struggle to obtain a pay-rise […]
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Are we here for a good time, Dave Barrett the new Premier asked at his first cabinet meeting. The answer was yes! Fifty years ago in the fall of 1972, the first NDP government in BC set to work on a powerful program of change to improve life for most in BC. A Landslide Victory […]
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Stéphane Delcros is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). FIFA and its allies are responsible — they must get out of our sport With horrible working conditions, wages and living conditions for migrant workers; but also a complete denial of rights for women, for LGBTQIA+ people — […]
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Calvin Priest is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Forecasts of a midterm “red wave” for the Republican Party failed to land on Tuesday, and instead a divided outcome was driven by growing levels of polarization in U.S. politics. Republicans failed to win either house of Congress outright on election night, and a […]
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