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Corrections officers, capitalism and resistance
Corrections officers are trying to improve the conditions that capitalism has placed on them and on inmates
In January a strike by 6,000 Corrections officers (COs) and probation/parole officers (POs) in Ontario’s criminal justice system was narrowly...more)
From Copenhagen to Paris: the climate justice movement rises
A survey of the climate justice movement from 2010 to 2015
On the final day of the Paris climate protests, Naomi Klein compared the mood to the Copenhagen conference in 2009:...more)
Kill a worker, go to jail
Six years after workers fell to their deaths from a faulty platform, the project manager has been sent to jail
On Christmas Eve in 2009, at around 4:30pm, four workers died and one was seriously injured after the collapse of...more)
Community to NEB Kinder Morgan Hearings: Permission DENIED
A people's injunction against the National Energy Board has exposed Trudeau's ongoing support for Harper's pipelines
Kicking off ten days of protests, climate activists served the National Energy Board yesterday at its Vancouver offices with a...more)
Quebec against austerity: what’s next?
La lutte continue!
The Quebec Common Front was an alliance of 400,000 public sector workers across Quebec. It was allied with teachers in...more)
Tell Trudeau: cancel Harper’s Saudi arms deal
Demand Trudeau cancel the arms deal and invest in good green jobs instead of bloody counter-revolution
Trudeau was elected by promising “real change,” including cancelling Harper’s fighter jet contracts and pulling Canada out of Harper’s war...more)
Spanish elections: gains for the left
The two neoliberal parties are crumbling as Podemos made gains
General elections in the Spanish state December 20 brought increasing political instability, with the biggest gains made by the left...more)
Legitimizing police violence: sanism, ableism and racism
Police violence relies on and reproduces discrimination against people of colour, people with disabilities and people with mental differences
A fundamental aspect of Canada’s creation, which also consistently maintains systems of sanist, ableist and racist oppression, is violence. Sanism...more)
Anti-racist Western from Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino has spoken out against racist violence through his film and a recent rally speech
Tarantino’s new movie has many of the features that mark it with the typical Tarantino brand: the over-the-top violence, the...more)
Indigenous perspectives on the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women
Feature interview with Magen Cywink of the Whitefish River First Nation, and other Indigenous perspectives
On December 8, 2015, the Liberal government launched the planning phase of its inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women...more)
War, what is it good for?
Capitalism = war
For someone who was born at the beginning of the new millennium all they will ever have known is a...more)
Report back from Paris climate protests
The Paris climate protests strengthened labour/climate solidarity
I had the opportunity to attend the COP 21, the United Nations Conference on the climate, as part of a...more)
Year in review: top 10 struggles across Canada in 2015
The year 2015 included many inspiring struggles across the country. Here’s a sample of 10 campaigns and mobilizations that made...more)
Corporate U takes the offensive
Corporations are taking over, from the Enbridge Centre for Corporate Sustainability, to the Manning Centre for Building Democracy
According to the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), a university is “a public institution dedicated to the advancement of...more)
Labour against climate change
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy is building a movement for a just transition to stop climate change
Something exciting happened at the UN COP21 climate conference in Paris in December. However, it wasn’t the COP21 conference itself;...more)
Trumbo trivializes McCarthy terror
By choosing to focus on Trumbo, Hollywood minimizes the right-wing witch-hunts that destroyed thousands of lives
Revisiting the days of the McCarthy witch-hunt is relevant today. In the 1940s and 50s anti-communist hysteria fueled support for...more)
After Paris: climate change or system change?
The climate accord is not historic, but the growing climate justice movement is
“Years from now, today may very well be the day our children look back to as the beginning of an...more)
'Cowspiracy' isn't causing the climate crisis, capitalism is
Our food system isn't unsustainable because it includes animals, it's unsustainable because of capitalism
Cowspiracy shines a light on the carbon emissions of the animal agriculture industry, but its beam is so narrow that...more)
UberXploited: behind the Toronto taxi wars
It's not Taxis vs Uber, it's workers against corporations and a complicit mayor
On Wednesday taxi drivers in Toronto took their battle against Uber to the streets. The protest was just the latest...more)
Interview: inside Quebec’s struggle against austerity
Quebec activist Nora Loreto explains the growing resistance and lessons we can learn
You wouldn’t know it from the corporate media in English Canada, but Quebec is in the midst of a massive...more)
Quebec teachers’ union marches in Gatineau
Teachers marched on the School Board to defend education
A crowd of red toques—the colour of the Fédération autonome de l'enseignement (FAE), representing 34,000 teachers in 800 primary and...more)
Quebec general strike: “The most important strike since 1972”
On December 9 half a million workers across Quebec went on strike against austerity
On December 8, Jacques Letourneau, President of one of Quebec’s largest union federations, the CSN, said on Twitter: “Tomorrow’s general...more)
International statement: We fight dictatorships, imperialist aggression and Daesh. We reject the politics of “national security”, racism and austerity. It’s time to mobilise!
Oppose war, racism and counter-revolution
Over recent months, people across the Middle East have been hit by an intensification of conflict in Syria and Iraq...more)
Labour for climate justice
Video by labour activist Carolyn Egan on the fight for climate jobs
The past few months have seen tens of thousands march for climate justice from Quebec City, to Toronto, to Ottawa,...more)
Quebec Common Front: province-wide strike December 9
December 9 will be a mass strike against austerity
The Quebec Common Front—which represents all the major trade union federations in Quebec, including more than 400,000 provincial government workers...more)

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