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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Politicians, Prime Ministers and Polls
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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On the 50th Anniversary of the Winnepg General Strike
I have been bombarded throughout the past half-century from many quarters to write about this event. Hitherto I have refused, being reluctant to do so, feeling that one cannot deal with events in which one may have been involved and do so with the objectivity necessary. For the same reason I refrain from reviewing...
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Jack McDonald, 1889-1968
The socialist movement, small in numbers as it is, has within its ranks a fair representation of so-called civilized man. The majority are not noticeably vocal, nor do they have the ability to express themselves in ...
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On Copying The Bolsheviki
Western Clarion, November 16 1920
At the time of the 1917 Revolution in Russia we approved of the Bolshevik leaders. During the many vicissitudes of fortune that have taken place since, we have seen no reason to alter this position. We understood, as we still understand, that Bolshevism is not Socialism. Our knowledge of Russian...
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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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