Western Clarion

Western Clarion

2 January 1922 cover
Type	Weekly newspaper
Founder(s)	Richard Parmater Pettipiece
Founded	1903
Political alignment	Socialist
Language	English
Ceased publication	1925
Headquarters	Vancouver
Country	Canada
ISSN	1709-7568
OCLC number	53905043
Website	https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/wclarion
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The Western Clarion was a newspaper launched in January 1903 that became the official organ of the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC). At one time it was the leading left-wing newspaper in Canada. It lost influence after 1910–11 when various groups broke away from the SPC. During World War I (1914–14) the Western Clarion was internationalist and denounced a war in which workers fought while others profited. Following the Russian Revolution it adopted a pro-Bolshevik stance, The paper was banned in 1918, but allowed to resume publication in 1920. Its circulation dwindled as SPC membership dwindled, and the last issue appeared in 1925.