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		<title>Politicians, Prime Ministers and Polls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Trudeau, Chretien and Mulroney. The headlines read, PMs evoke fear, love, loathing. The results were charted, supporters and opponents checking off their feelings about them: love, joy, wonder, optimism, acceptance, no feelings, surprise, sadness, displeasure, shame, anger, contempt, disgust, and so on read the poll. Theres no need to republish the results here. To do so would be to hoodwink the matter within the capitalist kaleidoscope of the Angus Reid Political Watch obtaining the results that tell readers, emotions are a very powerful predictor of voting intentions. This may indeed be a considerable factor in determining how people vote ﬁndings which by the way echo the ﬁnest of capitalist examples like in 1932 where two German-Nazi elections played up heavily on the worst possible xenophobia of its German electorate to eventually gas-chamber Jews in that nation’s ‘ﬁnal solution.’ Whether an electors vote is determined by one’s [...]


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		<title>The Magna/CAW Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; $100 million over the last three years!). The company represents a significant challenge to the Canadian Auto Workers’ Union (CAW) and a potentially large source of dues revenue. But the deal that was struck between CAW president Hargrove and Stronach has provoked strong reaction. Here’s why &#8211; Stronach agreed to allow a union drive in his plants and to promise no lockouts while Hargrove agreed to give up the right to strike. In other words, the union gets in and Magna gets the kind of union it wants. Disputes will be settled by binding arbitration, workers losing the right to an elected shop steward for each department to speak for them, and instead will be represented by a single employee advocate for the whole plant appointed by a plant committee composed of union and management in equal proportions. “Troublemakers” need not apply Criticism has rightly been [...]


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		<title>Imagine &#8211; Summer 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine is the magazine of our Canadian Companion Party &#8211; the SPC. In this issue they celebrate &#8220;100 Years For Socialism&#8221; No related posts.


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		<itunes:subtitle>Imagine is the magazine of our Canadian Companion Party - the SPC. In this issue they celebrate "100 Years For Socialism"

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		<itunes:summary>Imagine is the magazine of our Canadian Companion Party - the SPC. In this issue they celebrate "100 Years For Socialism"

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		<title>Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Campbell, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal &#38; 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 the author himself admits, writing: “The description requires explanation, because these socialists might more accurately be called Marxists of the first way. Their guiding philosophy is to be found in the provisional rules of the International Workingmen’s Association, founded in London, England, September 1864 . . .” Campbell’s definition of a Marxist, and on occasion a socialist, is somewhat more wide than ours, although less so than that of many writers and commentators. His introduction is as important, and revealing, as his four pen-portraits. The author uses the phrase “third way” in order to differentiate his subjects – and the organisations to which they belonged – from mass social democratic parties, such as the German Social Democratic Party, and later the so-called Communist parties. In that sense, he feels that they were Marxists of a “third way”, opposing the idea of leadership, and advocating mass [...]


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		<title>On the 50th Anniversary of the Winnepg General Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Pritchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 books in which I may have been (honorably or otherwise) mentioned. But now, this year being the ﬁftieth anniversary of that historic event, receiving an ofﬁcial request from the Executive Committee of The Socialist Party of Canada, and simultaneously one from The United Steel Workers of America (Canadian Section) I feel I must comply. The Steel Workers, with headquarters in Toronto, will hold their National (annual) Policy Conference in Montreal, May 1st and 2nd this year, and intend to commemorate the Winnipeg’ Strike’s ﬁftieth anniversary and have their proceedings covered by national radio and possibly television. As to the Strike and myself. Contrary to the general opinion I had little or almost nothing to do with it personally, and therefore have very little knowledge of all the ingredients which led up to it. That the panic-stricken authorities pounced on me in their blind fury and were [...]


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		<title>Jack McDonald, 1889-1968</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 writing. Another section, albeit possessing certain talents for communicating ideas, are unfortunately constrained to keep their propaganda activities at a minimum, even in some cases to the extent of secrecy. Finally, there are those, all too few, among us who have the knack for imparting knowledge and who have neither the compulsion nor the desire to keep their mouths buttoned. Such was Jack McDonald, without doubt one of the very finest teachers and propagandists in the history of the World Socialist Movement. A column in the &#8220;San Francisco Chronicle&#8221; dated July 6, 1968, informs us that: &#8220;Bookseller McDonald Dies at 79,&#8221; as the result of being struck by an automobile near his home in Oakland, California on July 1, 1968. The column deals briefly with his colorful life and states that he was always proud of his one-time membership in the &#8220;International (sic) Workers of the World&#8221; and that he was a &#8220;life-long radical and supporter of Marxian socialism.&#8221; We do not know who [...]


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		<title>On Copying The Bolsheviki</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 conditions, though perhaps meager, was sufficient to acquaint us with the fact that this country was not yet ready for Socialism. Economic and social development had not reached the stage where social ownership of the means of production was possible. A resourceful Socialist minority had been at work for some years. Among the industrial proletariat an extensive educational policy had been carried out. The weakness of the revisionist and reformist elements of Germany, France and England was fully understood long before the Revolution. A weak ruling class, lacking the means of repression found in highly organized capitalist centres; a peasantry uneducated and consequently devoid of that respect for master class teaching inseparable from well developed industrial communities; a state of war in existence, which spelled starvation, bloodshed, and discontent for the masses; all these circumstances made possible the successful attempt of the Bolsheviki to capture [...]


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		<title>Manifesto of the Socialist Party of North America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“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., upon which the whole of the people are dependent for their existence. A working class, whose members possess nothing but their labor power, which is useless to the worker unless he can have access to the raw material and the machinery of production, which is owned by the capitalist class. This being so, the worker, in order to live, must sell his labor power to the capitalist or capitalist concern. This labor power that the worker sells to his employer is used for the production of wealth, for which the worker receives what is termed wages. Wages are the price of labor power; that is to say, the capitalist will have to return to the worker the amount of necessities he must consume while exerting his labor power. This amount will vary with the value of these necessities and the standard of [...]


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