Simon Schweitzer

Sep 9, 2024 | socialistalternative.ca | Simon Schweitzer |Allie Pev |Amanda Woods |Davis Hay

The conservative Saskatchewan Party is heading to its fifth election victory, even after 17 years of misrule. The Sask Party led by Brad Wall, “the demon barber of the prairies,” defeated the NDP in 2007. Over the years the government has carried out a fairly standard conservative austerity agenda of low corporate taxes, resistance to federal climate change measures, privatizing some of the province’s remaining public crown corporations and liquidating the Wheat Pool.

Aug 11, 2023 | socialistalternative.ca | Simon Schweitzer |Bill Hopwood

One hundred and fifty years ago, Friedrich Engels wrote that the solution to housing for the working class was, in fact, workers not owning their own homes. Today it is a myth that owning a home is the path to financial security. Housing in Canada is becoming ever more expensive: buying a house is the most unaffordable in over 40 years. Mortgages are now being extended to over 30 years, making home-owning for many working people a shackle that binds them in debt for decades to come.