Socialist Alternative Magazine #2

Canada Needs a Raise! Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Aboriginal Women Deserve Justice Strikers Rock Quebec Canada After the Election Trans-Pacific Partnership US Politics Shifts Left … and more form Canada and abroad For printed copies, please send us an e-mail to [email protected] Please consider making a donation to help with our costs and […]

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Trudeau’s Cabinet: Does it Kick Sexism?

This is a revised version of an article first published in Pakistan. Justin Trudeau’s appointment as Canada’s new prime minister has generated an incredible response from the global community. Whether it’s his photogenic good looks, his demeanour as the down-to-earth friend of the people or his no-austerity promises, Trudeau has not only given Canadian society […]

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Canada Election: Harper Gone, Liberals Win

Canadian voters overwhelmingly rejected Stephen Harper and his Conservative party. The Liberals, the traditional party of big business in Canada, won a majority, while the New Democratic Party (NDP), the official opposition before the election, was pushed back into a poor third place. The overwhelming mood in Canada, throughout the longest election campaign since 1873, […]

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Ontario Election 2014: All three parties failing workers: Unions need to prepare to fight Austerity

Written by Socialist Alternative members in Ontario. For the last 11 years, Liberal governments have ruled Ontario. While Ontario has not been hit as hard as Europe and the US by the recession of 2008, it has had a major impact on jobs and living standards. Even prior to the recession, Ontario’s private manufacturing sector […]

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BC Premier Christy Clark and the opposition leader Adrian Dix of the BC NDP

BC Election 2013

Written by Socialist Alternative members in BC. On May 14 the New Democratic Party (NDP) achieved a stunning defeat in British Columbia’s provincial election, losing to the BC Liberals for the fourth time. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Just over a year ago the Liberals were in free fall after choosing a new […]

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Quebec: General Election Kicks Liberals out

Joshua Kortiz is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Bruno-Pierre Guillette is a member of Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec). On 4 September, Quebec voters elected the Parti Québecois (PQ) to lead a minority government, with Pauline Marois as the first female prime minister in Quebec history. On the heels of the mass […]

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