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Interview: Quebec's left-wing party
Socialist.ca interviews QS candidate Benoit Renaud about his party and the movements it supports
The mainstream media in English Canada have reacted to the upcoming Quebec election with hysteria about “separatism,” while ignoring the...more)
Labour against racism
The workers movement is a global movement and solidarity is critical
Unions across Canada are bringing trade unionists together to link workers struggles to the ongoing fight against racism. The Day...more)
Support the Tyendinaga arrestees
Support Indigenous activists arrested for a blockade demanding an inquiry into missing and murdered women
Members of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory (located near Belleville in southeastern Ontario) appear to be in the vanguard in taking...more)
The glory of the Black Panther Party
A review of David Hilliard's autobiography
This Side of Glory By David Hilliard and Lewis Cole Lawrence Hill Books David Hilliard’s autobiography tells the story of...more)
A new workers' party in South Africa?
After 20 years of ANC government, the mineworkers are organizing for a new party
In the single most important political development in South Africa's post apartheid history, the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) has...more)
Why vote NDP?
We vote NDP not for what they will do in office, but for the effect on people's confidence outside office
With a potential provincial election in Ontario this year, and a federal election next year, there is recurring talk of...more)
Discrimination and health of immigrants in Canada
Anti-immigrant racism undermines health by affecting employment, housing, and social support
Visible minorities and immigrant groups who have migrated to Canada are discriminated against. This leads to physiological and mental health...more)
Quebec election: “Quebec Inc”?
Pierre Karl Péladeau running for the PQ has made the Quebec election clear: Quebec Inc or Québec solidaire
The announcement by Quebec media mogul Pierre Karl Péladeau to run for the Parti Québécois sent a shockwave through both...more)
Capitalism and sports
We need to challenge capitalism to reclaim sports as a pursuit of pleasure and health instead of profit
Sports for the average person are something to enjoy—whether they are watching it to relieve stress or playing them to...more)
The Olympics and resistance
We need athletics and sports that doesn’t come with weight of nationalism and austerity
The Sochi Winter Olympic games have wrapped up now and the world’s attention has shifted elsewhere. When the Russian government...more)
Film review: Young Lakota
Young Lakota takes an unflinching look at the intersection of reproductive justice and the fight for indigenous sovereignty.
Young Lakota documents the tumultuous struggle for reproductive justice in South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation from 2006 to 2008,...more)
Neither the West nor Russia: no to imperialist war games over Ukraine
The best hope lies in workers uniting in protests and strikes against all oligarchs, at the same time overcoming the nationalisms that are providing support for the imperialist war games.
The appearance of Russian soldiers in unmarked uniforms on the streets of Crimea and the reaction to this of the...more)
Land and Labour
Land and Labour looks at how humans interact with nature.
Land & Labour: marxism, ecology and human history by Martin Empson describes our historical relationship with nature, and how that...more)
Racism, sexism and the fight for women’s liberation
To challenge sexism we need to challenge Islamophobia and support self-emancipation
Women have been subjected to discrimination and violence for centuries—and this oppression is sharpened by racism and Islamophobia. Women of...more)
Remembering Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Rank-and-file women workers led the historic strike wave
An examination of the massive strike wave of 1909-1913 reveals that the history of women’s liberation, the beginning of North...more)
Raising the minimum wage: a women’s issue
Women are the majority of minimum wage workers, so raising the minimum wage closes the pay gap
Here we are in 2014, decades after the first pieces of legislation targeting women’s equality were tabled, with a national...more)
Sharon escaped trial, but Palestinian resistance lives
The Arab Spring is Sharon's worst nightmare
Since last year’s Israeli Apartheid Week the campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and grown, and war criminal Ariel...more)
The state of class struggles in South Africa and the crisis in Cosatu
Statement by National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
“People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they...more)
Steelworkers against Hudak
Unions need to rebuild rank-and-file confidence and control in order to confront Hudak
Over one 160 Steelworker activists crowded into their union hall in downtown Toronto checking their state of readiness if Tim...more)
Hands off Ukraine, Russia and NATO out!
"Neither Washington nor Moscow"
The current crisis in the Ukraine is a product of decades of meddling by both the West and Russia in...more)
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns growing
Fossil fuel divestment camapaigns are expanding the movement to shut down the fossil fuel industry.
Students at hundreds of Canadian and American universities have started fossil fuel divestment campaigns, demanding their universities divest from companies...more)
Women and the criminal justice system in Iraq
A recent Human Rights Report shows that Western intervention has done nothing to help women
A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report entitled “ No one is safe: Abuses of women in Iraq’s criminal justice system...more)
Dance of the Generals
Private mercenaries paid by public funds
At first I thought news that the Harper Tories were lambasting a retired general for his exorbitant moving expenses was...more)
Interview: the blossoming of Idle No More
An interview with Idle No More organizer Alex Wilson
Alex Wilson is one of many organizers of Idle No More, based in the Opaskwayak Cree Nation. She talked to...more)
A primer on Quebec’s oil and gas turnaround
The PQ wants more oil and gas development, but popular mobilizations can stop them
It’s as if suddenly, just a few months ago, Quebec suddenly realized it had struck oil. And this despite making...more)

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