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Quebec: the spark and the flame
The challenge is making the Front Commun real for rank and file workers catching up with the questions students are asking.
Another "Rage Against the System: Marxism 2015" panel on “Quebec and Austerity” took the discussion further about the relationship between...more)
Québec solidaire: the ballot box and the street
The rise of QS reflects movements against austerity
The conference "Rage Against the System: Marxism 2015" in Toronto on April 25 welcomed via Skype representatives of parties challenging...more)
May Day in Quebec: dress rehearsal for the fight against austerity?
May 1 saw more than 100 protests and strikes across Quebec, which built local struggles against austerity
Unlike English Canada, Quebec never lost the tradition of May 1 as the international day for workers’ rights (instead of...more)
Ottawa May Day
The rally demands included stopping Bill C-51 and tar sands, eliminating tuition and raising the minimum wage
Working class under attack! What do we do? March in the streets of Ottawa with over 200 participants, to demonstrate...more)
Austerity in Ontario
The Ontario Liberals are showing their true colours, with cuts, privatization and wage freezes
A huge fight is brewing between the provincial government, teachers and the Ontario public sector. The Liberal government tried to...more)
May 1 revolutionary greetings from Kobanê
The revolution of Rojova has resisted ISIS and imperialist powers
Worker comrades! Organizations, syndicates and trade unions of workers! With warm regards of workers from Canton of Kobanê, the Canton...more)
Jason Kenney, Warlord
Kenney's lies facilitate Canada's wars in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine
Welcome to the first installment in a new occasional series starring Canada’s unloveable Warlord, Minister of Defence Jason Kenney. Unloveable...more)
Migrant deaths in the Mediterranean: blood on Harper’s hands
Harper's policies are complicity, waging wars that drive people from their homelands, and preventing their safe welcome
“We found, literally, a floating cemetery. Bodies were everywhere. With the dinghies we had to literally slalom among the corpses,”...more)
20 years in prison for failed pregnancy
So-called "feticide"laws punish women and pay lip service to children
This month, four decades of anti-woman, anti-abortion hysteria in the US hit a new low. Last August, an Indiana woman...more)
Harper and Oliver deliver Bay Street’s budget
The Tory "balanced budget" is neither balanced nor an actual budget
The lapdogs at the Canadian Taxpayer Federation were quick to praise the Tories for having the “discipline to get back...more)
Capitalism and precarity
Workers have a common interest in defending each other’s ability to organize
A recent interview with American socialist Charlie Post on Jacobin questions one of the common sense ideas among many sections...more)
Keeping down the Honduran campesino
The coup that Canada and Clinton supported is waging war on peasants/landless farmers
On January 25, 2015 a contingent of men with military-grade weapons shot over two dozen bullets into the offices of...more)
Canada-India cooperation: nuclear power vs people power
Global solidarity doesn't come from the nuclear industry or Crime Ministers, but through movements for peace, climate justice and equality
Harper has deported temporary workers, many from India, but welcomed Crime Minister Modi. While the official visit was to fuel...more)
Reliance on fossil fuels leads to yet another spill
Oil spill in Burrard inlet shows folly of continued reliance on fossil fuels
A ship on its way to pick up grain spilled 2,700 litres of fuel into Burrard Inlet. This is the...more)
Toronto rallies for $15 and fairness
April 15 was a global day of action, with strikes and protests to raise the minimum wage
In three separate actions today workers in Toronto rallied for $15 and fairness, which launched the campaign across Ontario as...more)
Drone terrorism
Ethan Hawke's drone pilot character shifts from cynicism to opposition
While American Sniper glorifies the Iraq War, Good Kill exposes the brutality of drone warfare from Afghanistan to Yemen. Writer/Director...more)
WWII Internment of Japanese Canadians: a lesson forgotten
In the 1940s Canada scapegoated the Japanese community, now it is the Muslim community
Following Japan’s December 7, 1941 attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, racism and paranoia toward the...more)
Tens of thousands march for climate justice
Like the People's Climate March last September, Act on Climate mobilized the 99% for climate justice
Today tens of thousands joined the Act on Climate march in Quebec city, territory of the Huron-Wendat, demanding climate justice...more)
Vimy Ridge, 'birth of a nation'?
'didn't see nobody getting born,just a lot of people dying'
Interview I did years ago with 'Rosie' Rowbottham who fought and was wounded at Vimy Ridge. "Birth of Nation?" said...more)
Quebec student strike reprise at a crossroads
With a more explosive beginnning, broader goals but also more fragmentation, there's widespread debate about the strike
We are now witnessing the third strike by Quebec university and college students within 10 years. This is not a...more)
The roots of Al Shabaab
The US/Ethiopian war on Somalia provided a recruitment tool for Al Shabaab
The killing of 148 students at Kenya’s Garissa University College by Somali Islamist insurgents Al Shabaab marks the latest episode...more)
Counter-rallies confront anti-Muslim 'Reclaim Australia'
Anti-racists are challenging Islamophobia and the far right movements it breeds
The racist, anti-Islam “Reclaim Australia” rallies managed to attract a few hundred people each on Easter Saturday—but they are a...more)
Victory for Heiltsuk Nation, support indigenous fisheries
Through blockades and solidarity the Heiltsuk defended their territory
On April 2, the Heiltsuk First Nation, located on BC’s central west coast, scored a huge victory over the federal...more)
Anti-fascists trounce PEGIDA in Montreal
Tory racism encouraged PEGIDA to hold a rally, but it flopped while anti-facists held a mass counter-rally
Another blow to the Conservatives' bet on the politics of fear and division. Another blow to diverting concerns about standard...more)
Bottles not cans!
The strike at Crown Products in Toronto is now over eighteen months old. 120 workers have fought through two hard...more)

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