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Motherhouse: ground zero for political theatre
Fennario's latest play about resistance to WWI challenges its current glorification
Motherhouse is designed to be used as a political intervention by the anti-war movement, but it can also hold its...more)
Celebrating Rosia Montana
Save Rosia Montana is trying to stop a destructive Canadian mining company
On February 16, people from the Romanian community and their supporters in Toronto celebrated 1882 years of Rosia Montana, a...more)
Review: Building Sanctuary
A history of supporting war resisters past, to inspire the present
Many Canadians wish to think of their country as a peaceful nation, but that vision is an oversimplification, if not...more)
First Nations Education: Harper vs Blue Dots
Harper's latest colonial document for First Nations is sparking resistance
Where is Stephen Harper going with the February 7th announcement of the First Nations Education Act ? Probably nowhere, according...more)
Bahrain: the third anniversary of the revolution
Despite Western-backed repression the Arab Spring in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia continues
Hundreds of thousands of protestors are taking to the streets of Bahrain in the third anniversary of the revolution. Faced...more)
‘14 now!’ Fight continues for minimum wage hike
Hundreds demonstrated and occupied to raise the minimum wage
There is a burgeoning labour movement in Ontario, and one key component of it is the Campaign to Raise the...more)
Video: Toronto picket of Stephen Harper
In less than 24hrs notice, postal workers and activists organized a picket against Harper
Crime Minister Stephen Harper was a guest at a business dinner in Toronto on the evening of February 8, 2014...more)
Solidarity with Mi’kmaq warriors
Members of the Mi’kmaq Warriors Society are on tour, building the successful resistance and solidarity that stopped fracking in Elsipogtog
Members of the Mi’kmaq Warriors Society are on tour, building the successful resistance and solidarity that stopped fracking in Elsipogtog...more)
Her: our relationship with technology in the 21st century
"Her" asks whether technology can solve our loneliness
In an era of facebook friends and internet dating, the Academy award-nominated movie Her is an entertaining and thought-provoking look...more)
BC Premier Clark's impossible LNG dream
The LNG plan is based on mythical revenue but real climate destruction
Before, during and after last year's provincial election the BC Liberals have put forward a plan for massive expansion of...more)
Harper's budget: a hazard to your health
"Deficit reduction" is an excuse to attack jobs and services, and a cover for tax cuts and military spending
In the midst of economic crisis, Harper continues to “balance the budget” on the backs of the 99%. The abstract...more)
Organizing Whole Foods: An interview with a worker on the Fight for 15 and beyond
An interview with a Whole Foods worker in Chicago on the fight for unions and better pay and conditions
Socialist.ca’s Peter Hogarth spoke to Matthew Camp, a socialist labour activist and worker at Whole Foods, about the fight for...more)
What Tim Hudak doesn’t want you to know: “right-to-work” laws invented by southern US segregationists
For Black History Month, remember the fight against "right to work"
Ontario Progressive-Conservative leader Tim Hudak has made no secret of his wish to assault organized labour if elected premier, something...more)
For real “worker choice”: Yes to $14 minimum wage, no to Hudak
The fight to raise the minimum wage and rebuild unions are essential to confront austerity
With two by-election campaigns in full swing, the battle lines are drawn for workers in Ontario. Conservative party leader Tim...more)
Stop Western intervention in Syria
Western-backed sectarian groups are highjacking the Syrian revolution, and we need to stop further Western intervention
The revolutionary wave that had existed in Syria is now stuck between the brutal Syrian government and the equally brutal...more)
February 14: Women’s Memorial March
February 14 is the 23rd annual memorial march to remember missing and murdered women
Since it was initiated in 1991 by women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Coast Salish Territories, the Women’s Memorial March has...more)
The roots and reality of racism
Racism is the "secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power"
The recent release of British director Steve McQueen’s movie 12 Years a Slave , based on the true account of...more)
What is fracking? What are the environmental consequences?
Fracking ruins the local and the global environment
Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) is the process of extracting natural gas—also known as shale gas—by drilling into shale rock formations deep...more)
Kshama Sawant Responds to Obama's State of the Union Address
The struggle of the 99% can challenge Obama and the rule of the 1%
Response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative, Seattle City Council Tuesday January 28, 2014...more)
Hudak’s million job plan: Do not believe the hype
Tim Hudak wants to destroy unions and lower wages to benefit the 1%
You could drive a truck through the logic and holes in Ontario PC premier candidate Tim Hudak’s million jobs plan...more)
BC Liberals' clean LNG dreams are really a dirty nightmare
BC's planned "clean" LNG industry will be worse than the tar sands
The climate footprint of Alberta’s tar sands is one of the worst of many environmental atrocities committed by Canada’s government...more)
Kinder-Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline twinning – what it is and why it is a bad idea
Another disasterous pipeline project has been submitted to the National Energy Board.
In December 2013 Kinder-Morgan ended months of speculation, finally submitting a 15,000 page, two metre high application to the National...more)
Quebec and York University: The religious accommodation debate
"Secularism" is being used to scapegoat Muslims, ignore systemic sexism, and distract from austerity
The hypocrisy in English Canada about the debate within Quebec over “secularism” has been astounding. On the one hand, Harper’s...more)
Quebec LGBTQ activists on the Quebec “secularism” Charter
Religious accommodation is not counterposed to liberation for women or for the queer community
Quebec’s Bill 60, at first known as the “Charter of Values” and now as “A Charter affirming the values of...more)
Israel: African migrants face systematic discrimination
Israeli apartheid oppresses indigenous Palestinians and African migrants
African migrants have been protesting all over Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and towns. While living in fear of being deported back...more)

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