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I am a Witness campaign for Indigenous children
This campaign supports the complaint made to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal about inequitable funding for child and family services in First Nation communities.
Cindy Blackstock of the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society helped to kick off Ryerson University’s Social Justice Week...more)
Liberals and Indigenous rights: what next?
Mobilizations will be key to maintaining Liberal promises and fighting Liberal pipelines
Indigenous people were part of the jump in voter turnout that drove Harper from office and that defeated his Aboriginal...more)
Voters reject Harper and demand change
The end to Harper, collapse of NDP and Liberal surge all reflect a desire to challenge austerity
After nearly a decade in power, Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada were voted out of office. Harper...more)
Stephen Harper's election dung heap
Harper meeting with the Fords smells of desperation
If you told me two months ago that Stephen Harper would end his his quest for re-election in the gelatinous...more)
Vote strategically: against Canada’s corporate coalition
Vote against the twin parties of corporate Canada at the ballot box, and build the movements outside Parliament after election day
With a few days to go in the federal election there are growing calls for “strategic voting”—based on a desire...more)
Quebec's World March of Women in Outaouais
The World March of Women will culminate with 15,000 people mobilizing in Trois-Rivières tomorrow
Despite pouring rain, local supporters of the World March of Women in the Outaouais region came out to a community...more)
Support Mohamed Harkat, stop secret trials
The fight for justice for Mohamed Harkat is the fight for justice for all
After 13 years of pure hell and continued injustice, the struggle continues for security certificate detainee and my husband Mohamed...more)
Saskatoon unwelcomes Harper
On one days notice 200 people protested Harper's visit
Harper is known as a lot of things, but transparent is not one of them—so it came as no surprise...more)
Toronto Disability Pride calls for ‘ramps, not bombs!’
The fifth annual march challenged austerity and oppression
Saturday October 3 was the fifth annual Toronto Disability Pride March . As the organizers explained, the march aimed to...more)
Ankara bomb attacks: blood on Erdoğan’s hands
The Turkish state has creating a climate of repression against the left and the Kurdish community
Over a hundred are dead and scores more seriously injured after a bomb attack on a peace rally in the...more)
Quebec is not to blame for the niqab debate
The Tories have whipped up Islamophobia and blamed Quebec, but there is resistance
The media and Tories fall over themselves pointing to the polls showing more than 80 per cent of people in...more)
Activists protest 'barbaric cultural practices' hotline at Kellie Leitch's office
Women's groups and their supporters denounced Harper's racism and sexism
"Say it loud, say it clear, Muslim women welcome here!" was the chant that filled the sidewalk outside of Minister...more)
Marxism and women's liberation
This book explains the origins of women's oppression, surveys struggles against it, and describes revolutionary transformation to end it
This book is a must read for feminists and socialists, and really for anyone who wants to understand—and more importantly,...more)
First Nations and the federal election
There's an increase in Indigenous candidates and in struggles outside Parliament for Indigenous sovereignty
As a force for change, most people in so-called democracies like Canada look to political parties and elections as their...more)
Stop racist carding
While politicians are trying to "reform" or "regulate" racism, Black Lives Matter activist and their allies are challenging it
Although, we often like to think of Canada as a paragon of inclusion and tolerance while scoffing at the US...more)
A feminist work of terror and beauty
The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
More than one spectre is haunting Europe
The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Angela Carter In case you were curious,...more)
New TV show sides with the peasants
The Bastard Executioner
The Bastard Executioner shows Welsh resistance to British imperialism and their own ruling elite
Review of Bastard Executioner, on the FX network Kurt Sutter, who has previously made TV series such as The Shield...more)
Join the 5th annual Toronto Disability Pride March
On October 3 join disabled people and allies to celebrate the fight back against ableism
The fifth annual “ Toronto Disability Pride March ” is taking place on Saturday, October 3, 2015 from 1:00 pm...more)
Solidarity against capitalist borders
Capitalist borders serve the 1% and divide the 99%
Recently Joe Daniel, a federal Tory candidate seeking re-election, had this warning for voters in his riding. He was referring...more)
How low can they go
Martin Shkreli shows what the 1% will do to make killer profits
From the hysterical media attacks on newly elected British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to the #PigGate scandal; from the...more)
Yemen’s civil war, and Harper’s complicity
The Canadian government arms and supports Saudi Arabia's bombing of Yemen
On March 22, 2015, the Yemeni Civil War began—fuelled by competing powers in the region: Iran and their supporters versus...more)
Don’t let Liberals capture anti-Harper sentiment
Mulcair's rightward shift has let Trudeau pretend to be anti-austerity and rise in the polls
The start of the federal election saw the NDP in a clear lead, campaigning to raise the minimum wage, provide...more)
Greek socialists statement on the elections
Nearly 10 per cent voted left of Syriza, showing the growing challenge to austerity
Statement by SEK (Socialist Workers Party), Greece, on the elections, the re-election of Syriza and the coming resistance to austerity...more)
Leap!
The Leap Manifesto demands are modest, but their implementation requires radical action
"This is our sacred duty to those this country harmed in the past, to those suffering needlessly in the present,...more)
Is society moving towards 'post-capitalism'?
Paul Mason's version of "post-capitalism" sounds a lot like capitalism
In a widely-shared article in The Guardian , Paul Mason claims that the dream of the Left is dead, and...more)

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