Western Clarion

Western Clarion
2 January 1922 cover
TypeWeekly newspaper
Founder(s)Richard Parmater Pettipiece
Founded1903
Political alignmentSocialist
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication1925
HeadquartersVancouver
CountryCanada
ISSN1709-7568
OCLC number53905043
Websitehttps://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/wclarion

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.