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"We got the guillotine, you better run"
The Coup perform their song The Guillotine
The real violence in Ontario is not coming from cartoon guillotines; it’s coming from Doug Ford’s austerity cuts to programs and services
Doug Ford called the cops on people who brought a prop guillotine to the Mayday general strike rally at Toronto’s...more)
International Workers Day in Hamilton
Hamilton celebrates May Day
Rage against Ford fuels May Day
There were several actions in Hamilton to celebrate International Workers Day. The first rally was part of the spontaneous social...more)
Remembering the Winnipeg General Strike
Winnipeg general strike.
Interview with Thomas McKechnie on his new play
Remembering the Winnipeg General is a political vaudeville that tells the story of the momentous, yet oft forgotten Winnipeg General...more)
Spain: the mainstream right shattered, but the far right rises
PSOE Socialist Party supporters celebrated on Sunday night (Photo: @PSOE on Twitter)
Celebrate the victory of PSOE, but build the anti-capitalist left.
Parliamentary elections in the Spanish state on Sunday saw the victory of the Labour-type PSOE Socialist Party, the entry into...more)
Vancouver Tenants Union turns two!
Members of the VTU celebrate and organize. Photo by Michael Tseng
Tenants are organzing themselves to take on landlords.
This weekend the Vancouver Tenants Union (VTU) celebrated its second anniversary. On April 27 members gathered at the Carnegie Community...more)
From the archive: The OFL must give a lead
Image of the Toronto Days of Action button from October 1995
How union leaders were pressed to lead a fight against Ford's mentor, Mike Harris
This column, published in the October 4, 1995 issue of Socialist Worker, was written in the leadup to the Ontario...more)
Plan of Green fables
PEI Green supporters. Photo Green Party of PEI Facebook
PEI Greens’ success shows voters’ concern for climate, but we need more
It was an historic election night in Prince Edward Island this week. As climate scientists have become more and more...more)
Ford can be beaten
Teachers' rally against Ford. Photo: Mary Crandall cc by nc nd 2.0
Mass strike action can stop Ford
Since their election last June, Doug Ford’s Tories have been on a mission – to roll back, slash or eliminate...more)
A blustery wind from Alberta
The real opposition to Kenney will be in the streets
On election night in Alberta, Jason Kenney began his slick victory speech declaring Alberta ‘open for business!’ Again and again...more)
This budget is murder
Banner at Sudbury Pride 2018
Ford preys on fear, we need to build on hope.
Recently a friend initiated a game, asking where and when in history people would rather have been born. Almost without...more)
Trudeau’s budget fuels racism
The Liberals will always have money for war
Liberals fund pipelines, borders, cops and war
The killing of 50 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand resulted in an immediate spike in Islamophobic incidents worldwide. 
 In...more)
Justice for Janitors movement wins big in Toronto
Janitors at Fight for $15 and Fairness rally
Janitors win pensions, health benefits, and surpass $15/hr
In the last week of March thousands of workers in the janitorial industry made a historic breakthrough by winning a...more)
Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party launches in South Africa
Delegates to the founding meeting of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party, photo @OfficialSRWP on Facebook
A new workers’ party in South Africa is committed to revolution
The Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) has been formally launched in South Africa . Over 1,000 delegates from its many...more)
SFU students push for fee freeze
Students take protest to SFU Board of Governors
No student a cash cow, tuition freeze now!
A few weeks ago marked a critical point in the Tuition Freeze Now (TFN) campaign at Simon Fraser University, with...more)
Kenney’s UCP abounds with bigots
Homophobia, misogyny and white supremacy in the United Conservative party
Watching Jason Kenney’s UCP campaign in the Alberta election is like watching a clown car empty out in front of...more)
"We can't wait for adults, we have to do this now"
Placard reads "You're a mean one Mr. Ford"
Thousands of students walk out to protest Ford education cuts
Tens of thousands of elementary, middle and high school students walked out of class in Ontario to protest cuts to...more)
A call to battle
The Toronto and York Region Labour Council stewards assembly meets to plan the fight againist Ford
Almost 900 stewards and trade union activists gathered in downtown Toronto for the first multi-union stewards assembly in years. The...more)
Quebec solidaire votes to fight ban on religious symbols
Delegates at Quebec solidaire National Council meeting vote overwhelmingly to fight the ban on religious symbols
Party also launches ultimatum to CAQ government on climate change
With chants of So-so-so solidarité, Quebec solidaire delegates celebrated a decisive vote in favour of opposing any and all ban...more)
"Beautiful and sort of perfect, that's where true horror lies."
Fan art by Aleksander Szczepaniak
The best horror movies are political.
Review of Us, directed by Jordan Peele Jordan Peele, director of 2017's brilliant film Get Out, skewering racism in America,...more)
Justice for Grassy Narrows
Activists target Trudeau on Grassy Narrows inaction
This afternoon, around forty activists rallied in solidarity with the people of Grassy Narrows outside the King Edward Hotel where...more)
Tory tough love
Ottawa teachers and students protest at a recent Tory fund raiser
Tory education: mean, selfish and bullying
The Ontario Tory budget features, among other things, cuts to education funding. That means teacher layoffs, even though Doug Ford...more)
Queen’s Park bully pulpit
Premier Ford on his best behaviour
Doug Ford is a bully and rarely shows up for work.
Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford is often absent from Question Period at Queen’s Park. He has missed 61% of sessions, especially...more)
"No hate, no fear, Muslims are welcome here!"
Anti-racist protesters surrounded and shut down the bigots in Toronto
Another victory in Toronto against Islamophobic hate group.
On Saturday March 23, just over a week after the horrific attacks on Muslims at prayer in New Zealand that...more)
Ford’s in Town? Let’s Shut him Down!
Over a hundred people protest Ontario Premier Ford in Ottawa
Doug Ford met by “unwelcome” party of teachers in Ottawa
On March 22, well over a hundred teachers, students, parents and other protesters gathered in front of Ottawa’s Walter Baker...more)
Ontario students walk-out against Ford's cuts
Student walk out at Ryerson University
Students hold their first coordinated protests against Ford's cuts
Thousands of students at 17 Ontario universities and colleges walked out of class on March 20 to protest Ford’s cut...more)

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