United in Struggle

The East Van Workers Assembly Joins Workers’ Alliance!

At the September 2025 East Van Workers Assembly (EVWA), we voted to affiliate with Workers’ Alliance (WA) or Alliance Ouvrière (AO). This was a significant step in rebuilding a more militant and democratic workers’ movement, both locally, and across the country.

The East Van Workers Assembly launched in the Summer of 2023 after a year of social investigation, talking to workers outside their workplaces about the significant issues facing the working class, particularly at that point in time inflation and cost of living. Our model of using monthly public workers assemblies to build our organization was inspired in part by the formation of WA in 2021. From this point, we have built and consolidated the EVWA as an organisation that gathers the most class conscious sections of the working class in order to forge a stronger, more democratic, and more militant workers movement.

All throughout we have been in dialogue with WA and other worker organisations across the country such as the 1919 Workers Collective in Winnipeg. In 2024, after years of discussion and communication, representatives from WA came to speak at our September assembly in order to invite us to the founding congress in December of 2024 in Montreal. We sent a delegation who were able to participate in the conversation and debate before the adoption of the strategy and constitution of WA.

What is the Workers’ Alliance?

Workers’ Alliance (WA) or Alliance Ouvrière (AO) is a cross country organisation fighting for the economic and political power of the working class. WA aims to educate, organise, and mobilise the working class in order to constitute it as an independent political force. WA has chapters in Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Ontario, and now Vancouver.

What is our strategy?

The working class movement in Canada is in a state of decline and retreat. We’re not united on strategy, tactics, or vision for the movement. We need to raise class consciousness through building and expressing working class power, stemming fundamentally from our ability to withhold our labour and shut down production.

Strategically, workers alliance aims to recover the political strike as a main weapon of the working class. Political strikes are when we use the power we have over production as workers to fight not just for gains at work, but to defend and advance our class interests.

In order to recover the political strike, Workers’ Alliance must: (1) Educate: Politically educate and train our membership, and the working class overall; (2) Organise: Build workers assemblies and industrial caucuses to expand and consolidate class struggle unionism as the basis of a rejuvenated workers movement; (3) Moblise: Launch combative campaigns to advance working class interests and defend ourselves against state and corporate attacks on workers.

Why cross country organisation?

The economy is organised at a scale which far outstrips our ability to significantly challenge the consolidated power of the Canadian ruling class through local organisation alone. Similarly, many of our unions are organised as national (or international) institutions. In order to effectively fight back against the monopoly corporations that dominate our economy and society, we need to be organised at a scale to facilitate this struggle. Working class people in Canada share a common interest in fighting against the monopoly corporations and the government that serves them, but we need to be united and organised if we’re going to fight back.

How do we organise?

Workers Assemblies / Regional Chapters: organise and unite workers across industries, provide political education and training to membership, and launch campaigns to educate, organise, and mobilise the membership of the WA and the broad working class in struggle.

Industrial Caucuses: Industrial caucuses gather workers from a particular industry in order to lead the implementation of the strategy of WA on a sectoral basis. Caucuses lead and support with workplace organising, conduct broader investigation into conditions and issues in a given industry, and run campaigns to bring together workers from across the industry on sectoral demands.

Get involved in Workers’ Alliance!

• Join us at our monthly workers assemblies, 4th Sunday of the month, 11am-1pm @ 601 Keefer St.
• Become a member of Workers Alliance.
• Join our flying squad the Solidarity Workers Action Team (SWAT).
• Join an industrial caucus.
• Participate in our campaign: Strike Back.