Canada is now a superpower in the African mining sector. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources Canada , only the Republic of South Africa, with over 35% of assets and investments, is just ahead of Canada in the African mining industry. But with South Africa’s assets concentrated on its own territory, Canada dominates...
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Canada
Colonialist Canada
The Toronto Propane Explosion
Capitalism has a nasty habit of suddenly laying a ton of grief on unsuspecting members of the working class. A typical example is when the employees of Consumers Glass in Etobicoke, Ontario, were recently told the plant was going to be shut down just two weeks after they had negotiated a union contract. But...
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Politicians, Prime Ministers and Polls
In the wake of the Brian Mulroney/Karl Heinz Schreiber scandal there has been an outpouring of emotion concerning politicians in general and Mulroney in particular. This has reached such an extent that on December 15th the Toronto Star published the results of an Angus Reid strategies poll showing how Canadians felt about ex-prime ministers...
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The Magna/CAW Deal
The Magna Corporation is the largest supplier of parts to the auto industry in Canada. It employs more workers than GM Canada, all non-union and all working below union rates putting downward pressure on wages in the industry. (It will come as no surprise that CEO Stronach takes home higher than union wages –...
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Imagine – Summer 2007
Imagine is the magazine of our Canadian Companion Party – the SPC. In this issue they celebrate “100 Years For Socialism”
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Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way
By Peter Campbell, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal & Kingston, pp.303, 1999.
Peter Campbell discusses, and focuses on, the lives of four individuals—Ernest Winch, William Pritchard, Arthur Mould and Robert Russell, all of whom originally came from Britain and from religious backgrounds. The title and the phrase, “a Third Way”, is something of a misnomer, as...
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Manifesto of the Socialist Party of North America
“Emancipation not Palliation”
Socialism vs. Capitalism
To understand socialism, one must necessarily understand the present social system; i.e., capitalism.
Under capitalism, society is divided into hostile classes: an owning capitalist class, whose members have ownership of the various parts of the instruments of wealth production.
This includes: The land, the factories, the railroads, the mines, and steamships, etc.,...
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Alberta Socialist Propaganda Tour – Winter 1916
IN THE LAST DAYS of 1915 a request came to the DEC from the Alberta executive that I be sent to that province for a three months’ propaganda tour. The DEC agreed, urging me to accept. I talked it over with my wife, since it meant leaving her with two small boys,...
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