Show BC Workers Some Love

Tell the NDP to Enforce Employment Standards! Socialist Alternative, alongside groups like the Worker Solidarity Network, recently waged a campaign in BC for ten paid sick days per year for workers in the face of the ongoing COVID pandemic, in the end, winning five. This partial victory represents an incremental step toward a truly fair […]

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Iran: “Weapons, Tanks Are No Longer Effective, Mullahs Must Go”

Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Since the beginning of this year unrest and protests have continued in Iran with the working class and youth at the forefront. With growing anger about the increased repression of trade unionists, for instance against teachers, and more recently against new executions, as well […]

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“Nothing Short of an Earthquake”

Greyson Van Arsdale is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Starbucks Workers United Fight for Fair Union Elections With more than 30 stores fighting to unionize nationwide, the Starbucks stores in Buffalo are no longer an outlier — they’re the spark to a growing flame. Starbucks workers from Buffalo, who have won their […]

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Vaccine Rules – a Socialist Take

The emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID highlights the ongoing failings of governments around the world to tackle this pandemic. Vaccine hoarding by rich countries, companies putting profit before human need, governments failing to do outreach to hard-to-reach and hesitant communities and people have all contributed to this ongoing misery. The COVID pandemic drags […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #19

Socialism for a green future Youth: The Soundtrack of Late Capitalism Ontario Alberta: Drive Kenny Out! Protect Indigenous Land COVID Vaccine Nationalism = Misery Interview with Kshama Sawant Canada’s Role in Haiti’s Misery Socialism Needed … and more from Canada and the World! For printed copy(ies) send an e-mail to [email protected] Please consider making a […]

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World’s richest man to Canadian workers: you’re no heroes

The word “hero” is in vogue these days. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance in our society of nurses, cleaners, and grocery store workers to millions. Most Canadians are rightly grateful for the labour of these workers, who are doing their best to contain the pandemic and keep the country fed, often at great […]

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Chinese Dictatorship Intensifies Jasic Crackdown

Dikang is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Forced confessions and more disappearances as CCP regime persecutes worker and youth activists “Our activities were actually illegal crimes. They seriously disturb the social order, and ignited foreign criticism towards the Party and the government, which dramatically debeautified the government’s image…” This is part of the filmed “confession” of […]

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