“Join our Campaign for a Labour City Hall, for a Workers’ Government at the municipal level. Let’s form a Coalition of socialists, labour unionists, community organizations and social justice activists to present a team of candidates to fight for the interests of workers, tenants, women, LGBTQIA2S+ folks, racialized people, seniors and all who seek a city and world without exploitation and oppression. Join us!”
— Municipal Socialist Alliance
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The Municipal Socialist Alliance does not tolerate xenophobia, racism, sexism and gender-based violence, homophobia, bi-phobia, queer-phobia, poly-phobia, transphobia, able-ism, ageism, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, or classism.
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The Municipal Socialist Alliance supports Indigenous Land Back and Indigenous self-determination, disbanding the police and carceral institutions, free public transit, expansion of public services, and immediate action on climate change.
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The Municipal Socialist Alliance seeks to dismantle the systems of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, hetero-normative patriarchy, and white supremacy.
Pillars of a Municipal Socialist Alliance Electoral Campaign
Direct Democracy
Any individual or organization who agrees with our founding principles is welcome to join Us. We seek to engage communities directly in formulating demands, program, policy, and tactics.
Public Education
The struggle to radically transform society requires widespread education on the failures of capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism to meet human needs and on the necessity for a government led by workers and oppressed people. To this end, we commit to holding public forums and town hall meetings to amplify the voices of organizers leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation.
Direct Action
Transformation of society cannot be achieved solely through parliamentary means. History shows that all significant advances in human liberation are won through the mass mobilization of people. The Municipal Socialist Alliance recognizes the blockade of roads and infrastructure as an important form of democracy. Founding members of the Municipal Socialist Alliance regularly participate in and organize direct action to advance our demands, and we do not plan to stop!
Mutual Aid
The pandemic highlighted once again the human tendency towards mutual assistance. While the city repeatedly failed to keep its inhabitants safe, and police brutalized the most vulnerable amongst us, we stepped up. We keep us safe! The Municipal Socialist Alliance will organize mutual aid, not because it canl succeed in meeting all unmet needs, but because we strive to elevate our ability to keep our communities safe into political power.
Program and Policy
We do not sacrifice the basic principles of liberation and justice for all in order to win elections. There are plenty of candidates and parties exist to do just that. Hence, the transformative vision we advance for the people living in our city needs to be made clear in program and policy.
The crystallization of our general demands into a concrete plan will show that socialism not only better meets the needs of people but in many cases, will cost workers and oppressed people less. What we need to do, to begin, is to get rid of the food scalpers, housing profiteers, and parasitic oligarchs!
Are You a Socialist?
Whether you write about municipal politics or know someone who would be an ideal candidate, we are open to your suggestions.