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Canada, Quebec: How women won abortion rights
How women won the right to choice
The fight for abortion rights is one of the most important victories of the women’s movement in Canada and Quebec...more)
Occupy! Women during the 1937 Flint sit-down strike
They changed history, and themselves
The 1937 Flint sit-down strike is one the most famous episodes of US labour history, but the role of women...more)
IWD, Russia 1917
A better world was possible
When thousands of women textile workers celebrated International Women’s Day in Petrograd, Russia in 1917 with a strike to demand...more)
IWD: a history of victories and struggles
the history of IWD
International Women’s Day takes place on March 8 all over the world. It is a day to celebrate the victories...more)
Stop the Cons!
Their crisis, our resistance
The Robocall electoral fraud is just the tip of the iceberg of the Harper Conservative government scandals. As the economic...more)
Robocalls: their democracy and ours
Robogate is the tip of the iceberg
Election corruption reveals the bankruptcy of capitalist democracy, in the midst of capitalist bankruptcy. Even though it only allows us...more)
BC Teachers defend education
BC teachers defend education
As we go to press, BC teachers were considering strike action and high school students were planning walk outs in...more)
Hospital workers wildcat in Edmonton
an old tradition returns
An old tradition in the workers’ movement came back to life in February in Edmonton: the wildcat strike. February 16...more)
The battle for the TTC
movement revives public transit debate
It seems like you can’t read the news these days without coming across some new report on the battle for...more)
Library Workers vote to Strike!
Library workers defend jobs and services
After much stalling and foot-dragging by the employer, Toronto Public Library workers voted in favour of strike action in late...more)
Mass opposition challenges Tory spying bill
stop tory spying
On February 14, Conservative public safety minister Vic Toews introduced Bill C-30 to Parliament—unofficially titled the “Protecting Children from Internet...more)
Bad news for pipelines
movement grows against the pipelines
The hearings into the environmental, economic and social impact of the Northern Gateway pipeline have been pushed out of the...more)
Occupy! Women during the 1937 Flint sit-down strike
They changed history, and themselves
The 1937 Flint sit-down strike is one the most famous episodes of US labour history, but the role of women...more)
Quebec student strike shows the way to fight fees
inside the Quebec student movement
As we go to press, over 65,000 striking Quebec university and college students have shut down their campuses to protest...more)
Fight McGuinty's Austerity agenda
the 1% solution for Ontario's economic crisis
On February 15, the much anticipated Drummond Commission issued its 1% solution for the rest of Ontario. Ten months ago,...more)
Austerity in Greece: Bailout leaves workers in misery
bailing out the capitalists
Workers making minimum wage in Greece are about to receive a 20 per cent pay cut. Pensioners in Greece are...more)
The Robocall rogues gallery
The Cons: a Review
The growing RoboCall scandal is being likened to Watergate, and Stephen Harper to our own Richard Nixon. I used to...more)
Women's Oppression: Origin Stories
Engels in Review
Karl Marx died in 1883, with much of his writing unfinished and unpublished. His life long collaborator, Frederick Engels, turned...more)
Bahrain: Canada complicit in Saudi crackdown
Harper's -humanitarian intervention- in Bahrain
Canadian arms companies exported $4 billion worth of weaponry and ammunition to Saudi Arabia in the last year, including light...more)
Don't Attack Iran
Stop the next war
On February 23 a rally was organized to protest the looming war with Iran and the possibility of Canadian participation...more)
Movement builds against war on Iran
Let's make 2012 a repeat of 2003, by stopping our government's drive to war
The Canadian anti-war movement is responding to the possibility of a military attack on Iran with demonstrations, pickets and mass...more)
Libya: one year after the revolution
What has humanitarian intervention accomplished in Libya
On February 17 Libyans celebrated the one-year anniversary of the revolution that removed Muammar Gadhafi from power after 42 years...more)
London Conference
the new scramble for Somalia
The much-hyped London Conference on Somalia that took place in the British capital on February 23 has set a new...more)
Defend Palestine House
Defend Palestine House from tory attacks
Palestine House is the latest target of the Harper agenda, which is increasingly attacking Palestine solidarity and free speech in...more)
NDP leadership race: nobody to endorse
Where's the NDP candidate for the social movements?
In the midst of austerity and war, and the potential for united resistance across Canada and Quebec, there is no...more)

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