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Tax and spend: a climate and jobs platform for the BC election
$15 minimum wage, implement UNDRIP, restore corporate taxes, cancel megaprojects and support green jobs
The International Socialists are too small to run in the upcoming provincial election in BC. However, we feel that the...more)
French Guiana: General Strike against Austerity!
The French Guiana masses are showing how to fight austerity and racism
What started off as local demonstrations and strikes organized by the “Collective of 500 Brothers,” a coalition of organizers created...more)
Austerity, racism and resistance
From IWD to anti-racist protests and Fight for $15, movements are fighting austerity and racism
After nearly three months into the new political era ushered in by a shocking American election, the emerging fault-lines and...more)
The story of Comrade Absolute
The Bolshevik journal Rabotnitsa
The women of the Bolsheviks, built a party to fight for freedom
A review of Bolshevik Women , by Barbara Evans Clements, Cambridge University Press, 1997 Barbara Clements has done a real...more)
Provincial strategy session maps out fight for $15 in 2017
After a victorious strike at York, the fight for $15 could make its way to the provincial election
"We are building an intergenerational, multi-racial working class movement!" Betty Douglas' words rang out to a huge standing ovation from...more)
Liberal budget: privatization, austerity and climate chaos
Trudeau is continuing Harper's healthcare cuts and funding tar sands
The Liberal Budget release on March 22nd claims to lead the way to the future through innovation in order to...more)
Trudeau betrays First Nations children, again
The Liberals are ignoring the Human Rights Tribunal ruling that sided with First Nations children
In a battle now running 10 years, the federal government refuses to correct its discriminatory funding for First Nations children’s...more)
Corporate media and the state
This documentary exposes the role of corporate media in suppressing the truth
An antidote to the mealy-mouthed cries of "liberal media" has been delivered in Fred Peabody's powerful new documentary, All Governments...more)
Russian Revolution and the Peoples of the East
The Russian revolution fused working class revolution and anti-colonial rebellion
“Workers of all lands, and oppressed peoples of the whole world, unite!” This was a historic change to the call...more)
Get Out – movie review
Get Out shows the racism bubbling under the surface of 'polite' society
Jordan Peele's new movie Get Out is a cautionary tale for Blacks in Trump's America and a funny, biting, ironic...more)
I Am Not Your Negro Review: Remember This House
The movie holds up a mirror to the brutal face of anti-Black racism
Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro is a highly confrontational, discomforting testament to the truth of Black existences in...more)
Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience
Kent Monkman's exhibit is a necessary antidote to the "celebrations" of the Canadian state
“I could not think of any history paintings that conveyed or authorized Indigenous experience into the canon of art history...more)
McCapitalism
The Founder both criticizes and deifies McDonalds
One of the great ironies of director John Lee Hancock’s The Founder , about the founding of McDonald’s restaurant, is...more)
Striking York food service workers win $15 and Fairness
The victory is a huge win for racialized workers in low-wage industries
On Monday striking York food service workers, represented by Unite Here Local 75, voted to accept their new contract. The...more)
Stop the hate, unite the fight
Join the IWD march!
Washington DC is still reverberating from the women’s march that took place on January 21. It was an extraordinary event...more)
Reclaiming the radical tradition of International Women's Day
From 1917 to 2017, women are leading the struggle
After the huge turnout on the Women's Marches on January 21, both in the US and internationally, in response to...more)
Albion Neighbourhood Services on strike against cuts
Some 20 workers at Albion Neighbourhood Services (ANS), members of Teamsters Local 938, have been on strike since February 6...more)
Rally against Islamophobia shuts down bigots
Dozens of racists tried to rally at City Hall, but hundreds of anti-racists shut them down
“Say it loud, say it clear, Muslims are welcome here!” That was one of the many chants that rang out...more)
Trudeau’s ‘accessible Canada’ includes unpaid work
The Liberals turned a campaign promise for accessibility into unpaid work
Back in 2015, before the Canadian federal election, a movement of disabled people was building across the country. The call...more)
Trudeau: We're Watching You
Trudeau is continuing Harper's attack on civil liberties
The Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) held a public rally on February 25 in Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto...more)
Tory leadership race…to the bottom!
Tory leadership candidates are spreading Islamophobia
Just when you thought the Tory scumbags couldn’t reach any lower, you witness four so-called “leadership” candidates denouncing Islam at...more)
Frederick Douglass and the fight against racism
Little does Trump know that Douglass spent his life fighting the racist system Trump upholds
/*--> */ The period since Donald Trump took office has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in hate crimes across...more)
Trudeau refuses to take action against racist travel ban
Rally in Washington DC against travel ban. Photo by Ted Eytan
Trump's racist travel ban's have been opposed on both sides of the border.
Trump's racist travel ban was challenged in the airports, in the streets, and in the courts. In Canada, people across...more)
Support food service workers
York food service workers are fighting for $15/hr minimum wage and against anti-Black racism and Islamophobia
On February 17 York University food service workers in Unite Here local 75 went on strike to protest unfair wages...more)
Trumping Trudeau
Trump and Trudeau have a different approach but similar policies
In the dreary year since his election, Justin Trudeau has seen the popularity of his government and his personal “brand”...more)

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