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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 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)

Stop the repression of South Korean trade unionists