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Disabled People Against Cuts are fighting austerity
Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Brazil tonight, Wednesday, disabled activists blocked Westminster Bridge in London...more)
Trudeau is posing for photos while quietly sending troops to guard mining profits in Africa
While the Prime Minister was spending his time photo-bombing families on beaches in western Canada, the defence minister Harjit Sajan...more)
Trudeau has brought change...to make it easier to sell weapons
While the docile media swooned over our shirtless Prime Minister, his government was quietly endorsing changes to the export rules...more)
Socialists in Turkey and Syria denounce Turkish invasion
Turkish and Syrian socialists have issued a joint statement on August 31: While the big powers and their allies attempt...more)
Disarm and then abolish the police
On Sunday, July 24, Ottawa police killed Abdirahman Abdi, a 37-year-old Somali-Canadian man with mental health issues. The circumstances were...more)
The postal workers need your support
It’s not clear what the outcome will be of negotiations between Canada Post and CUPW, the Canadian Union of Postal...more)
The Burkini "debate" exposes sexism and Islamophobia
Almost exactly a year ago, socialist.ca wrote the following in response to a protest by Ontario women asserting their right...more)
Rallies across Canada call for justice for Abdirahman Abdi
On July 24, Abdirahman Abdi, a Black Muslim Somali man living with autism and mental illness, was beaten to death...more)
Liberals continue Tory attack on civil liberties
In May, a Federal Court Justice ruled the National Security Certificate against Mahmoud Jaballah to be unreasonable, almost 20 years...more)
The World Social Forum built solidarity across Canada, Quebec and the world
The World Social Forum (WSF) brought thousands of activists to Montreal in early August. The event started in Porto Allegre,...more)
The ABCs of Socialism is a good introduction to some questions but leaves out others
Book review: The ABCs of Socialism , Edited by Bhaskar Sunkara, Illustrated by Phil Wrigglesworth, Verso Books, 2016 The ABCs...more)
A book inspired by the short but remarkable life of Shannen Koostachin in Attawapiskat
Review of Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada’s Lost Promise and One Girl’s Dream by Charlie Angus. University of Regina...more)
Dissent and marches at the DNC were not shown on TV.
Held in the Wells Fargo Centre in downtown Philadelphia, the Democratic National Convention peaked with the foreseen coronation of their...more)
Vancouver area instructors fight for a living wage
Instructors at two Vancouver area colleges are battling corporate greed in a fight for fair wages, and control over their...more)
Trudeau claims to support a nation-to-nation relationship, but he is letting a Canadian corporation develop on unceded Alngonquin land
On May 10, 2016 Liberal Minister of Indigenous Affairs Carolyn Bennett announced that Canada would adopt the United Nations Declaration...more)
A military coup and an authoritarian elected government are not the same thing
Turkey is an interesting country. In a place that, together with the 15 July coup attempt, has experienced five serious...more)
Hundreds joined the vigil for Abdirahman Abdi after the police executed him in the streets
Those were the words written on a restaurant chalkboard in the Ottawa neighbourhood of Hintonburg on the evening of Tuesday...more)
Disabled people have better stories to tell than stereotypes portrayed by non-disabled people
Members of the disability community are outraged at the creation of the movie “Me Before You” released in May, many...more)
The challenge to anti-Black racism is growing, from Pride to the Anti-Racist Secretariat
The United Steelworkers along with many other unions organizes a float in the Pride Parade in Toronto. Labour has had...more)
There's a growing campaign to bring truth and reconciliation to the education curriculum
Socialist.ca spoke with teachers in three provinces about the state of Indigenous history in the curriculum, and the growing campaign...more)
There's been a backlash against the women leading the film, especially the Black actor Leslie Jones
You wouldn’t think a reboot of a popular but anodyne film of 32 years ago, Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters, written by...more)
Erdogan's restrictions on democracy are no justification for a military coup
We have been living through an attempted coup for the past few hours. A group within the army have been...more)
The Chilcot report vindicates the anti-war movement, but the Canadian government still refuses to support war resisters
The Chilcot Report, released on July 6 after seven years and various delays, vindicated many of the arguments the anti-war...more)
Black Lives Matter has challenged anti-Black racism, and now the press, police and mayor are on the attack
Black Lives Matter-Toronto have shown inspiring leadership in confronting anti-Black racism and encouraging a broader radicalization. Now the corporate press,...more)
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