Workers get layoffs while executives get bonuses
Over 1500 workers, including 1200 transit operators, have now been laid off by Translink as the public’s use of the...more)
|
You are here
Articles
Will this crisis result in a new class consciousness?
In Canada, during a time when we now have millions not working - 4.5 million already having applied for emergency...more)
This time it's personal
I am a senior. I am a lung transplant recipient reliant on medication that suppresses my immune system. As a...more)
Workers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis with a new militancy
There has been widespread working class response to the pandemic that we are facing. It varies from country to country,...more)
In 1932 the US Public Health Service began a study of syphilis. They chose a group of 600 Black men,...more)
Kyle Hoskin is a sanitation worker in the Niagara region, and activist with CUPE 1287.
Kyle Hoskin is a sanitation worker in the Niagara region, and activist with CUPE 1287. He spoke to Socialist Worker...more)
It was the liberal party that gutted healthcare and employment insurance
As the COVID-19 crisis has unfolded, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has enjoyed a bump in the polls. Two-thirds of...more)
The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MoHLTC) has issued 14 day ‘emergency orders’ to employers in Long...more)
Jason Kenney’s UCP government is using the Covid-19 emergency to destroy public services in Alberta. While people are distracted by...more)
Stuck inside? Here are some movies to help pass the time.
The sheer amount of information (and mis-information, if you are listening to the orange monster) on Covid 19 can be...more)
1. The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is generally presented as a “natural disaster”, an “external shock” to the normal functioning of...more)
Graduate Students ask for summer tuition relief across Ontario, will Universities listen?
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, universities across Canada have announced an indefinite closure of their on-site services and have...more)
As the crisis of capitalism in Canada intensifies under the Covid-19 pandemic, the mass of workers under capitalism are yet...more)
Let me introduce you to Scott McMillan, an attorney from Southern California. Maybe not a famous person, but Scott gets...more)
Socialist.ca spoke with Blake McCall a HSR driver and activist in Amalgamated Transit Union local 107.
Socialist.ca spoke with Blake McCall a Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) driver and activist in Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) local 107...more)
Report by a Transit Driver in Niagara Falls, member of the Amalgamated Transit Union local 1582: Well this last week...more)
Failure to enforce regulations allows disease to spread
In this pandemic employers and the BC provincial government are prioritizing profits over people. The BC Building Trades Council has...more)
Vancouver Tenants Union calls on province and city to halt evictions
The letter below has been sent by Vancouver Tenants Union, Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative, and BC ACORN to the city...more)
Socialist Worker spoke with Zach Wells, a Via rail worker based in Halifax about why he and other union members...more)
The threat of the Covid-19 coronavirus to public health reveals, on many levels, how sick the capitalist system is. Origins...more)
A debate is raging in our media: is Canada “broken”. Spoiler alert, it was never not broken. The Canadian ruling...more)
When thousands of women workers in Petrograd, Russia marked International Women’s Day of 1917 with a strike to demand bread,...more)
Looking at Jason Kenney’s Alberta is enough to give you whiplash. First he moves to privatize education. Then he strikes...more)
The Canadian government has informed the International Criminal Court in the Hague that it does not recognize any Palestinian state,...more)
Pages
Featured Event
Events
-
May 5, 2025VancouverOrganized by:Vancouver branch of the International Socialists
-
June 13, 2025TorontoOrganized by:International Socialists and Marx21 US
Recent Videos
Visit our YouTube Channel for more videos:
Visit our UStream Channel for live videos:
