Class

Capitalism, Class, Labor movement, Marxism, Work

Letting the Cat Out of the Bag

About an imaginary conversation that originally appeared in the October 1937 issue of The United Automobile Worker.

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Capitalism, Class, Climate, Crime, healthcare, Housing, News

Food for Thought From Canada

From the Monthly Report of the Socialist Party of Canada, January 2023 There is now a robot that can pick fruit. The camera tells the computer where ...

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Capitalism, Class, Housing, Labor movement, News, Politics, War

News From Canada — June 2022

The Socialist Party of Canada discusses recent events in Canada and abroad -- the Ontario elections of June 2, the rising cost of living, growing poverty and homelessness, the royal visit, the scarcity of bees, the war in Ukraine.

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Book Review, Class, History, Socialism

Classless Cities

Marx and Engels thought that some time before the dawn of recorded history there took place several closely interrelated transitions that transformed human life – from wandering ...

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Capitalism, Class, Economics, Work

A Novel That Makes Socialists

Robert Tressell’s The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a book that has made (or helped make) many socialists, at least in Britain. It has long been popular in our companion party, ...

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Class

Words of Wisdom

"Any profiteer is free to shorten the lives of his countrymen by denying them the essentials of life and he does this as a member of a highly respected class. The police protect him and his gains against the victims..." Professor Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi -- mathematician, historian, philologist, and geneticist

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Class, Work

‘Class Struggle’: B.S. Or What?

By David Zink Like most survivors of our (mis)education system, you’ve probably been taught that in American and Canadian society the concept of ‘class’ is no longer ...

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Class, History, Politics

Before and Without Marx: Chartist Thought

The ideas of Marx did not arise out of thin air. They grew out of the works of many others before him. Here we focus upon the independent thought that developed within the working class and that Marx would incorporate into his own conception of the world around him.  

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Class, Politics

Trump’s ‘Blue-collar’ Image

Donald Trump still struts on the American political scene. It seems probable that he will stand again for president in 2024. This article considers one important aspect of his popular appeal – his carefully cultivated ‘blue-collar’ image.  

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Capitalism, Class, Environment, Poetry

New Issue of Imagine

Our companion party to the north, the Socialist Party of Canada, has just issued the Winter 2021 issue of its quarterly journal, Imagine.

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