You Say You Want a Revolution? (2017-03-22) Rosa Luxemburg was right: “work for reforms” is not “a long-drawn-out revolution” and revolution is not “a condensed series of reforms.” People who only want to win changes that improve people’s lives within capitalism “do not really choose a more tranquil, calmer and slower road to the…
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Another term for the federal Conservatives would be appalling. If Pallister’s Conservatives win the 2016 provincial election they’ll unleash an all-out attack on the working class. The Liberals share the Conservatives’ commitment to boosting corporate profits. The federal NDP accepts the neoliberal framework that Liberals and Conservatives have put in place. Its leadership is calling…
Take a look at this article written by David Camfield, http://newsocialist.org/index.php/blog/680-why-socialists-need-feminism
Protest in the News There are two dominant themes in the media coverage of the Idle No More protest movement. First, protest is ineffective. It accomplishes nothing. Second, Idle No More has already accomplished everything it can reasonably hope to accomplish. The demands of the movement have already been met. These two obviously contradictory ideas…
The University of Winnipeg student newspaper, The Uniter, recently chose not to publish this letter. Enjoy! In her Sept 13, 2012 article from The Uniter Blog, “Whatever happened to radicalism?” Katerina Tefft’s writes about finding some of her mother’s issues of The Uniter from the 1970’s. Comparing them to The Uniter of today she writes I was struck by a…
I recently read Mia Rabson’s Winnipeg Free Press article, “Who are you calling entitled? Today’s youth say they have it tougher—and the numbers back them up,” who writes how rising tuition fees and high unemployment rates for youth fuels larger student debt. With fewer jobs for graduates and increased student debt, young people are more…
Winnipeg New Socialist Group Member, Zac Saltis writes In the years to come, Canadian workers will witness: 1) greater income inequality, exacerbated by deeper corporate tax cuts and government spending cuts; 2) a further concentration and centralisation of capital, especially in the resource-extraction sector; and 3) a prolongation of the working lives of working-class people. …
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