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Prescription for profits: the TPP and pharmaceuticals
The Trans-Pacific Partnership extends corporate control over medicine
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) must be seen for what it is: a corporate bill of rights. The investor-state dispute settlement...more)
From Pierre to Justin Trudeau: challenging corporate Canada
Trudeau will be a sunnier version of Harper
The great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright got his start designing homes and public buildings in the Chicago suburb of...more)
Syria: neither Washington nor Moscow
More bombs, just being dropped from different jets, will only deepen the crisis
Russia’s entry into the war in Syria has been hailed by many anti-imperialists as providing the antidote to US power...more)
No honeymoon for the Liberals
From a November 5 sit-in to November 29 march, the climate justice movement is already putting pressure on the new Prime Minister
Now that there is a Liberal government in Ottawa the working class, social justice and climate movements must be relentless...more)
SFU Students Stand in Solidarity with TSSU
Their working conditions are our learning conditions
Over the last two years Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) at Simon Fraser University have fought a long tough battle...more)
Does socialism kill ghosts?
Ghost by Sephiroth-Art
Does a socialist emphasis on materialism and a rejection of ignorant "superstition" require a move away from spooky tales of the past?
I've been possessed by a fascination with the British writer Susan Hill. She's the author of an ungodly number of...more)
Blair 'apology' for Iraq War
If even Blair can offer a half apology for the Iraq War, then soldiers refusing to fight in Iraq should not be punished
After years of stubbornly defending the illegal Iraq War, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair finally offered a half-apology. “I...more)
The Liberals and the Charter: don’t deport Harkat to torture
Stop secret trials!
It is not a coincidence that Mohamed Harkat received his deportation papers in the middle of the federal election campaign...more)
BC Liberals continue Harper's indifference to missing and murdered Indigenous women
Liberals deleted emails relating to missing and murdered Indigenous women
Stephen Harper may be gone but his callous disregard for missing and murdered Indigenous Women lives on through Christy Clark’s...more)
I am a Witness campaign for Indigenous children
This campaign supports the complaint made to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal about inequitable funding for child and family services in First Nation communities.
Cindy Blackstock of the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society helped to kick off Ryerson University’s Social Justice Week...more)
Liberals and Indigenous rights: what next?
Mobilizations will be key to maintaining Liberal promises and fighting Liberal pipelines
Indigenous people were part of the jump in voter turnout that drove Harper from office and that defeated his Aboriginal...more)
Voters reject Harper and demand change
The end to Harper, collapse of NDP and Liberal surge all reflect a desire to challenge austerity
After nearly a decade in power, Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada were voted out of office. Harper...more)
Stephen Harper's election dung heap
Harper meeting with the Fords smells of desperation
If you told me two months ago that Stephen Harper would end his his quest for re-election in the gelatinous...more)
Vote strategically: against Canada’s corporate coalition
Vote against the twin parties of corporate Canada at the ballot box, and build the movements outside Parliament after election day
With a few days to go in the federal election there are growing calls for “strategic voting”—based on a desire...more)
Quebec's World March of Women in Outaouais
The World March of Women will culminate with 15,000 people mobilizing in Trois-Rivières tomorrow
Despite pouring rain, local supporters of the World March of Women in the Outaouais region came out to a community...more)
Support Mohamed Harkat, stop secret trials
The fight for justice for Mohamed Harkat is the fight for justice for all
After 13 years of pure hell and continued injustice, the struggle continues for security certificate detainee and my husband Mohamed...more)
Saskatoon unwelcomes Harper
On one days notice 200 people protested Harper's visit
Harper is known as a lot of things, but transparent is not one of them—so it came as no surprise...more)
Toronto Disability Pride calls for ‘ramps, not bombs!’
The fifth annual march challenged austerity and oppression
Saturday October 3 was the fifth annual Toronto Disability Pride March . As the organizers explained, the march aimed to...more)
Ankara bomb attacks: blood on Erdoğan’s hands
The Turkish state has creating a climate of repression against the left and the Kurdish community
Over a hundred are dead and scores more seriously injured after a bomb attack on a peace rally in the...more)
Quebec is not to blame for the niqab debate
The Tories have whipped up Islamophobia and blamed Quebec, but there is resistance
The media and Tories fall over themselves pointing to the polls showing more than 80 per cent of people in...more)
Activists protest 'barbaric cultural practices' hotline at Kellie Leitch's office
Women's groups and their supporters denounced Harper's racism and sexism
"Say it loud, say it clear, Muslim women welcome here!" was the chant that filled the sidewalk outside of Minister...more)
Marxism and women's liberation
This book explains the origins of women's oppression, surveys struggles against it, and describes revolutionary transformation to end it
This book is a must read for feminists and socialists, and really for anyone who wants to understand—and more importantly,...more)
First Nations and the federal election
There's an increase in Indigenous candidates and in struggles outside Parliament for Indigenous sovereignty
As a force for change, most people in so-called democracies like Canada look to political parties and elections as their...more)
Stop racist carding
While politicians are trying to "reform" or "regulate" racism, Black Lives Matter activist and their allies are challenging it
Although, we often like to think of Canada as a paragon of inclusion and tolerance while scoffing at the US...more)
A feminist work of terror and beauty
The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
More than one spectre is haunting Europe
The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Angela Carter In case you were curious,...more)

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