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Freedom and Necessity takes place in 1849, the year after the failed European revolutions and the subsequent backlash.
Review of Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust & Emma Bull This little bombshell has been variously described as the...more)
People in Saskatchewan rallied against Brad Wall's racist attack on refugees
Last week was a particularly disgraceful and embarrassing one for Saskatchewan politicians and public figures, who used the Paris tragedy...more)
Join the November 29 climate demonstrations!
Much of the opposition that challenged Harper was from the Indigenous-led climate justice movement. If the Liberals campaign slogan “real...more)
Fighting racism requires working class struggle, not corporate lip service to diversity
In her article in Salon.com , “Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word,” Ellen Berrey...more)
While Obama's rejection of Keystone was also motivated by US strategy, it was won through mobilization and adds pressure on Trudeau
Enormous praise should go out to the climate movement for putting pressure on the Obama administration to reject the Keystone...more)
Students, parents and teachers are uniting against austerity
Those who oppose austerity internationally are once again watching Quebec, with a new strike and protest movement unfolding this fall...more)
Students organized a sit-in to support their faculty
November 2, Nipissing university faculty in North Bay went on their first ever strike. The issues are fair compensation, meaningful...more)
Those who died in Paris are themselves further victims of Western-backed wars and the reaction against them.
The appalling killings in Paris are horrific. Our sympathy is with the victims and their families and friends. But we...more)
Despite workers' resistance, trade union leaders settled for concessions,
After almost a year of bargaining, 34,000 OPSEU members who work directly for the government of Ontario ratified two contacts...more)
While the military tried to glorify past and present wars, the anti-war and anti-austerity movements took to the streets
November 11 doesn’t offer much to remember for Quebec. The famous “Vandoos,” the all-francophone 22nd regiment, was formed as a...more)
Capitalism concentrates human waste, depleting the soil and polluting rivers
Less than a week into a mandate for real change, the federal Liberal Environment Minister granted permission for Montreal to...more)
To build unity against capitalism we need to fight every form of oppression
Theoretically, at least, it seems like the answer to this question might be no. The driving impetus underlying capitalism as...more)
The latest attack on a hospital in Afghanistan, and its justifications, gives a glimpse into years of US war crimes
A year ago US President Barack Obama announced that “our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and the longest war...more)
Wear a white poppy to remember the war resisters and revolutions that ended WWI, and to continue movements for peace and justice
Justin Trudeau’s first large public event will be Remembrance Day, and the politics that dominate that day match well with...more)
Following mass workers demonstrations last month, tens of thousands of students took to the streets
On November 5, ASSÉ, the main student union behind Quebec’s “ Maple Spring ,”held a Quebec-wide student walkout and rally...more)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership extends corporate control over medicine
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) must be seen for what it is: a corporate bill of rights. The investor-state dispute settlement...more)
Trudeau will be a sunnier version of Harper
The great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright got his start designing homes and public buildings in the Chicago suburb of...more)
More bombs, just being dropped from different jets, will only deepen the crisis
Russia’s entry into the war in Syria has been hailed by many anti-imperialists as providing the antidote to US power...more)
From a November 5 sit-in to November 29 march, the climate justice movement is already putting pressure on the new Prime Minister
Now that there is a Liberal government in Ottawa the working class, social justice and climate movements must be relentless...more)
Their working conditions are our learning conditions
Over the last two years Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) at Simon Fraser University have fought a long tough battle...more)
Does a socialist emphasis on materialism and a rejection of ignorant "superstition" require a move away from spooky tales of the past?
I've been possessed by a fascination with the British writer Susan Hill. She's the author of an ungodly number of...more)
If even Blair can offer a half apology for the Iraq War, then soldiers refusing to fight in Iraq should not be punished
After years of stubbornly defending the illegal Iraq War, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair finally offered a half-apology. “I...more)
Stop secret trials!
It is not a coincidence that Mohamed Harkat received his deportation papers in the middle of the federal election campaign...more)
Liberals deleted emails relating to missing and murdered Indigenous women
Stephen Harper may be gone but his callous disregard for missing and murdered Indigenous Women lives on through Christy Clark’s...more)
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