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SOCIALIST ACTION / LIGUE POUR L'ACTION SOCIALISTE
 Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste  http://socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com/is a revolutionary socialist political organization active across the Canadian state.

BACKGROUND

Formed in 1994 by socialists expelled from, or who quit Socialist Challenge / Gauche socialiste which renounced the Leninist strategy of revolutionary party building, SA/LAS is in politicial solidarity with the Trotskyist Fourth International.

ACTIVITIES

Its members write for and distribute the North American monthly newspaper, Socialist Action, based in San Francisco. They play a prominent role in a number of political campaigns and social protest movements.

The latter include the labour, anti-war, feminist, queer liberation, environmental protection, anti-poverty and international solidarity movements. Prominent examples of internationalist work include solidarity with revolutionary Cuba, with Venezuela and other Latin American countries seeking social justice and independence from foreign domination, and with the Palestinian people striving for a unified, democratic-secular homeland. Demanding an end to the wars of occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Libya, and that Canada leave NATO, are equally important facets of the organization's activity.

NDP SOCIALIST CAUCUS

SA/LAS members and supporters are among the leaders of the New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus http://www.ndpsocialists.ca/, which seeks to turn the labour-based party, the Official Opposition in Canada's Parliament as of May 2, 2011, sharply to the left. The SC was instrumental in stopping the removal of the term “socialist” from the NDP constitution at its federal convention in Vancouver, B.C. in June 2011.

ON QUÉBEC

SA/LAS defends Québec's right to national self-determination, and upholds the right to self-government of aboriginal peoples. In Quebec, LAS members participate in the mass leftist party Québec Solidaire http://www.quebecsolidaire.net/, which stands for Quebec independence and opposes the business agenda.

ON LABOUR

SA/LAS strives for the transformation of today's unions into militant, democratic labour organizations capable of resisting and reversing the employers' programme for labour concessions and government austerity policies operating chiefly to the detriment of workers, minorities, women, youths and the poor. The organization stands for public ownership of the commanding heights of the economy under democratic workers' and community control.

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