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Mexico: mass protests against gangster capitalism
Armed by the US, Mexico's police also use gang violence against social movements
The false image of Mexico as a neoliberal success has been shattered. Mass protests against the mass murder of students...more)
First Nations winning against tar sands pipelines
Convergence 2014 in Vancouver to stop Tar Sands pipelines
All this year, the First Nations in BC have led the fight to stop the pipelines.
This year has seen a tremendous showing of solidarity to stop the planned tar sands pipelines that, if built, will...more)
Labour and the fight against austerity
With a sluggish response to brutal austerity, rank and file organizing is key
It has been six years since the global economic crisis of 2008, which produced bailouts and tax cuts for banks...more)
Iraq War Resisters in peril
War resisters in! Harper out!
With a federal election looming as early as next spring, Stephen Harper's Conservatives have stepped up their drive to force...more)
Victory on Burnaby Mountain
Victory  celebrations on Burnaby mountain
Protests lead by Tsleil-waututh First Nation and Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) have won a major victory against the tar sands pipelines.
Protests led by Tsleil-waututh First Nation and Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) have won a major victory against...more)
A people's history of beer
To paraphrase the great dialectical philosopher, Homer J. Simpson, beer is the cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems.
To paraphrase the great dialectical philosopher, Homer J. Simpson, beer is the cause of, and the solution to, all of...more)
What will socialism look like?
Imagine a world of cooperation instead of competition
Imagine a world dedicated to joy instead of profit.
The richest 8.4 per cent own more than 83 per cent of the world's wealth. This does not exactly mean...more)
Saying no to privatizing MRI clinics in Saskatchewan
Privatization is less efficient, more unequal and allows corporations to be more exploitative
Just a few days before Saskatchewan’s Tommy Douglas Day, Premier Brad Wall put forward a proposal to privatize MRI clinics...more)
All students should oppose fee increases
Students at UBC rally
We don't pay different prices for groceries depending on our citizenship, why are tuition fees any different?
Post-secondary education has to navigate two contradictory identities: as both a basic right and a purchasable commodity. This leads to...more)
Kurdistan and the US war on Iraq and Syria
To support Kurdish self-determination we need to stop imperial intervention
Yet again Western imperialism is bombing Iraq and yet again it claims to be helping the Kurds. But Western intervention...more)
Anti-war rallies across the country
Hundreds rallies across the country against Harper's latest war
Last weekend saw anti-war protests across the country, organized by the Canadian Peace Alliance and the Collectif Échec à la...more)
The West’s ally threatens to behead a pro-democracy activist
Canada arms Saudi Arabia and is ignoring its plan to behead Sheikh Al Nemer
While the West uses the crimes of ISIS to justify bombing Iraq, Western-backed Saudi Arabia is immune from criticism. But...more)
Stop Harper from crushing our civil liberties
Harper is using tragedy to erode civil liberties in the pursuit of corporate profits
Let us not mince words. The attacks on military personnel in Ottawa and Quebec are a potential disaster for democracy...more)
Syrie : unité des luttes pour la liberté et la démocratie
L’impérialisme étatsunien et ses alliés n’ont fourni aux factions démocratiques que peu d’armes
Kobané, la ville kurde du nord de la Syrie, résiste depuis plus d’un mois à l’offensive sauvage du groupe réactionnaire...more)
Harper's wars spread violence
We need peace, solidarity, civil liberties, and real support for troops: bring them home and help them heal
Two attacks this week killed ordinary soldiers who were not responsible for Harper’s war, but Harper is cynically using these...more)
Union activists confront Islamophobia
Workers rallied to defend school trustee candidate Ausma Malik from Islamophobic attacks
The recent municipal election in Toronto had a lot of low points with Olivia Chow being told to go back...more)
Hong Kong protests: pro-democracy means anti-capitalist
Protests in Hong Kong connect political and economic demands
Protests in Hong Kong began in September demanding greater democracy. But rather than simple demands for Western-style democracy, as they’ve...more)
‘Yes means yes’ law challenges sexual assault on campus
California's new law challenges rape myths and rape culture on campus
There are crimes that are zealously prosecuted at great expense, even when there is no victim—like the “war on drugs”...more)
Canada Post is about to impair disabled people
We need to save door-to-door delivery and stop Canada Post from sacrificing privacy and mobility for profits
Canada Post is about to begin phasing out door-to-door services across the country. Although many Canadians do not currently receive...more)
OFL conflict: what's at stake?
The conflict threatens to undermine progressive leadership that opens up space to mobilize rank-and-file workers
Conflict has re-emerged within the leadership of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). At a time when we need a...more)
Interview: Turkish socialist on ISIS and Kobane
The West claims to support the Kurds but are silent towards their oppression from the Turkish state
Interview with Ozan Tekin from our sister organization DSIP in Turkey: The recent events in Kobane, ISIS, US airstrikes and...more)
Iraq: an imperial history
For a century Western intervention in Iraq has brought nothing but wars and occupations
“Our armies do not come into your cities as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.” So said British Lieutenant General...more)
College faculty ratification vote a surprisingly low 61 per cent
An internal eduction campaign educated workers to help them challenge the contract
Following a “no” vote campaign that saw eleven out twenty-four college locals, members of OPSEU, call to turn down a...more)
The October crisis: Pierre Trudeau and the suppression of civil liberties
In October 1970 Pierre Trudeau sent the army into Quebec to suppress civil liberties and the nationalist movement
“Every government in this country is well aware of the existence of deep and important social problems…there is available everywhere...more)
Ebola: capitalism's latest epidemic
Ecological change, neoliberalism and austerity are spreading Ebola, BigPharma is ignoring it US imperialism is cynically using it
The Ebola virus is carried in fruit bats but can infect humans in close contact—causing fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding...more)

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