24 February: Protest and Stay-Away against the bosses’ budget! Build for continued mass action! The Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) supports South African Federation of Trade Union’s call for a National Stay-Away on February 24, when finance minister Mboweni is set to deliver another dose of brutal austerity in his budget speech. It’s #TimeToFightBack — as […]
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Capitalism’s COVID Disaster Women Organize Against Oppression Indigenous Struggles Continue The Struggle for Jobs and Climate US – China Cold War Will Continue Latin America: Struggle Returns Unite Here: A Fighting Local in BC Housing Crisis Ahead If you’d like to order paper copies, email us [email protected] Please make a donation towards our costs and […]
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On January 17, Colonial Provincial District Medical Health Officer Dr. John Harding arrived in Bella Coola with COVID-19 vaccine for the Nuxalk First Nation. At a welcoming ceremony Dr. Harding announced he had brought additional doses … enough to vaccinate the whole community. Two days later vaccinations began with the most vulnerable elders. However, there […]
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James Clement is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium) . Support is growing for the ‘Civil Disobedience Campaign’ first launched by medical workers from over 80 hospitals in Myanmar. They have now been joined by […]
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Premier Kenney’s failed economic and COVID-19 strategies have resulted in enormous financial hardship for Albertans and augmented the breeding grounds of pandemic conspiracy theories and the anti-mask movement. The mandated closure of small businesses has affected the livelihood of thousands who work in and own restaurants and the rest of the hospitality sector. By cutting […]
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Interview with a worker from a big pharmaceutical plant in Belgium. Nationalise the Pharmaceutical Sector! First published in Lutte Socialiste and De Linkse Socialist, monthly papers of PSL/LSP, ISA in Belgium Hopes are high that there is light at the end of the Corona Tunnel, especially now that the vaccination campaign has more or less […]
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Some elected folks think it’s okay preaching obedience to public health orders, then taking off for the beach without so much as a jaunty “aloha” to the rest of us. Citizens are angry at Alberta’s Tracy Allard and her “tradition,” (undoubtedly dating back to the time of the druids), of a holiday trip to Hawaii. […]
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Igor Yasin is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). The Largest Movement of Workers, Youth and the Poor in Decades On January 25, 2011, around 15,000 people gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo to demand fundamental political and social reforms. The police tried to disperse them but failed that day. And so began […]
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Anna Barnett is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Bright signs of a growing world organization Over 1,500 International Socialist Alternative (ISA, of which Socialist Alternative Canada is part) members and supporters from 39 countries attended the second ever Virtual Marxist University (VMU) last weekend. The event focused on political education, with dozens […]
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Mohammed Nawaz Tahir is an ISA supporter in India. Escalate Joint Workers’ and Farmers’ Protests! Every Indian child grows up singing and learning the slogan ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ at school. It means: ‘long live the soldier, long live the farmer’. At the moment these two groups, that are said to form the backbone of […]
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