Trustees
School trustees are locally elected representatives who govern public school districts, serving as the critical link between the community and the education system.
Councillors
City councils serve as the primary legislative and governing bodies for municipalities, responsible for creating laws, setting policies, and managing public resources.
Mayors
The mayor oversees local government operations, enforces laws, manages public services, r and work with a council to set policies that affect residents.
Basis for Unity
While the Municipal Socialist Alliance was formed by revolutionary socialists, anti-poverty organizers, and disability-justice organizers as an electoral alliance, our primary goal remains radical transformation of society rather than electoral success.
In running an electoral campaign, we seek to build up our community-based power in order to tear down oppressive systems and institutions and replace status quo corporate domination with a government run by and for the working class and the oppressed.
We participate in elections to challenge entrenched power and to re-orient discussion towards the fundamental societal transformation needed for the masses to live comfortably and in harmony with our neighbours and nature.
Community Endorsements
“As a special guest at a recent Municipal Socialist Alliance meeting, I was very impressed with their vision, energy and commitment, especially amongst younger people who are needed so desperately to keep a community-based advocacy group thriving. I applaud the group’s efforts and will continue to support them in any way that I can.”
—James Gordon, City Councillor, Guelph
“I’m very happy to endorse, in a personal capacity, Kiri Vadivelu’s campaign for Mayor of Toronto. His socialist platform offers a challenge to the model of the neoliberal city, with its agenda of austerity, inequality, reckless upscale redevelopment and a swollen police budget. With ‘progressive’ opposition to this agenda reduced to hesitant efforts to soften the blow, it is good to see a platform that actually bases itself on the needs of working class people.”
—John Clarke, former organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty & member of 230 Fightback
“While much of the labour leadership will throw their support behind status quo candidates in the upcoming elections, it is clear that business-as-usual municipal politics isn’t working for working class people. Enough is enough! Vote for change! Vote Socialist! Vote for the Municipal Socialist Alliance!”
—Julius Arscott, Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union / SEFPO Executive Board Member
“MSA is a coalition of socialists, labour unionists, community organizations and social justice activists united 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. I am proud to show my support for a Labour City Hall, for a Workers’ Government at the municipal level.”
—Barry Weisleder, NDP Socialist Caucus / Federal Secretary of Socialist Action