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Take a moment and savour, and eat real food too!
The return to a sensory and sensible approach to diet is a subtle throwdown to the likes of McDonald's
At first glance, it might be not be obvious just how political No Ordinary Apple can be. Sara Marlowe’s debut...more)
Racism through under-funding: First Nations child welfare services
Canada continues to impoverish indigenous children and remove them from their communities
Along with underfunding of health and education for First Nations, the Canadian government severly underfunds child welfare services. The disparity...more)
Australia's election: no mandate for Tory agenda
Australian socialists analyze the election and the fightback needed
Tony Abbott, a right-wing neo-liberal infamous for his misogyny and social conservatism, is moving into The Lodge. Millions are horrified...more)
Quebec teachers in solidarity against the "Values Charter"
The charter promotes racism, distracts from neoliberalism and highjacks legitimate demands for self-determination
Since debate over the Parti Quebecois’ “Values Charter” exploded in late August , over the banning of "ostentatious religious symbols,"...more)
Saint Mary's frosh chant gives us a clear example of a bigger problem
A pro-rape frosh song is symptomatic of sexist society
What's most shocking about this story is not that the chant was an oversight but that it was purposefully oppressive...more)
Stop Richtree Restaurant union busting
Richtree restaurant fired all their union staff, then re-opened non-union
Fifty long-time workers at the Eaton Centre Richtree Restaurant, all members of UNITE HERE Local 75, were laid off in...more)
Free Haitham Mohamedain, Egyptian labour lawyer
The Egyptian army has arrested one of Egypt’s leading labour lawyers and an activist with the Revolutionary Socialists
Haitham Mohamedain, one of Egypt’s leading labour lawyers and an activist with the Revolutionary Socialists, has arrested on his way...more)
How do we build a fighting student movement?
Students need to defend and strenghten the CFS through rank-and-file activism
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) is the largest and most progressive of the campus student organizations outside of Quebec...more)
Arab socialists speak out on Syria
We Stand Behind the Syrian People's Revolution - No to Foreign Intervention
We Stand Behind the Syrian People's Revolution - No to Foreign Intervention Statement by: Revolutionary Socialists (Egypt) - Revolutionary Left...more)
Solidarity needed: drop the charges against anti-fascists in Greece!
The Greek state is persecuting a leading anti-fascist organizer
Anti-fascist and anti-racist activists in Greece (including Petros Constantinou, seen speaking above) have been charged under Greece's "anti-terror" laws -...more)
Don't bomb Syria!
Bombing Syria will kill civilians and undermine the revolution
Yet again, Western nations are calling for war in the name of fighting dictatorship and confronting weapons of mass destruction—this...more)
Labour Day in Toronto
They say cut back, we say fight back
Labour Day in Toronto usually draws 20,000 to 25,000 workers into the streets. Workers rights and the fight back against...more)
Baristas Rise Up: organizing the low wage service sector
Baristas in Halifax show how to organize in the low wage service sector
The union movement in Canada faces a number of challenges. Not only has the economic crisis given the excuse to...more)
The police: serving and protecting the 1%
The pollice serve to perpetuate oppression and maintain inequality
With the recent shooting of 18-year old Sammy Yatim in Toronto, the whole question of the role of police in...more)
Join the third annual Toronto Disability Pride March
Be loud, be proud, and come march with us on October 5
As summer draws to a close, the time is once again approaching for another Toronto Disability Pride March. Since 2011,...more)
Socialism and Islam
How do we explain Islamist organizations and how can we best show solidarity with those resisting Western imperialism?
It’s been a dozen years since the “war on terror” and two years since the start of the Arab Spring—including...more)
Ontario Common Front assembly draws hundreds against austerity
250 activist met to strategize against austerity
Ontario Common Front general assembly helps foster community-labour alliances. Over the course of Monday, August 19, over 250 activists participated...more)
A brief history of neoliberalism part 1
What is neoliberalism and why did it emerge?
The economic period since the 1970’s has been referred to generally as the neo-liberal period both by the right and...more)
Tunisia: ongoing revolution
The Tunisian revolution continues to demand social and economic equality
Prominent Tunisian opposition leader and member of the People Movement Party, Mohamed Brahmi, was assassinated in front of his home...more)
PowerShift comes to British Columbia
Join the PowerShift conference to help build the climate justice movement in BC
This October over a thousand youth will converge on Victoria BC for PowerShift 2013. In the words of the organizers,...more)
Bees dying for profits
Honey bees
Capitalist agricuture is threatening the bees that polinate crops
Over the winter of 2012 – 2013, forty to fifty percent of American beekeepers' hives were destroyed by colony collapse...more)
Invasion of the sea squirts
Sea squirts from NOAA photo library
A tiny invasive species is devestating Nova Scotia mussel farms
The Maritime mussel aquaculture industry is in crisis. Some mussel farmers have seen production cut by up to 90 percent...more)
Hundreds of cities will flood
Rising global temperatures have already "locked-in" sea level changes that will flood hundreds of coastal cities.
Most of the world’s great cities are coastal, located to take advantage of transportation, trade and the oceans’ resources. Global...more)
Saudi-Russian meeting tries to control Syria's future
Saudi Arabia has offered oil and arms to Russia in exchange for control over Syria
Violence is escalating in Syria with recent allegations of chemical weapons attack on civilians in towns outside Damascus. The entire...more)
From the Red Power movement to Idle No More
Red Power set off a wave of action and a level of consciousness in both the indigenous and non-indigenous communities
A former member of the American Indian Movement looked back at the days of Red Power and said, “I didn’t...more)

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