This year's Toronto IWD will be demanding a higher minimum wage and defending public services
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Resistance and solidarity at Elsipogtog shows how we can fight for climate justice
On February 20 member of the the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society spoke to a packed crowd at the Toronto Council Fire...more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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" 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)
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)
"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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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'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)
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)
"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)
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