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RIP Peter Kormos, 1952-2013

Peter Kormos, former Welland City Councillor, maverick NDP MPP, and Niagara Regional Councillor, but most of all a true fighter...more

"I came out and smelled it. Then I saw it coming down the street.”

The viral video of Canadian tar sands oil running through a residential neighbourhood in Arkansas has shows the threat of...more

From another hunger strike to a mass march, Idle No More continues

We can expect more Idle No More actions through the spring, as First Nations directly challenge the anti-environmental policies of...more

Harper's agenda includes cuts and militarization of history

In 1940 Walter Benjamin, a Marx-influenced theoretician associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote his “Theses on the Philosophy of History.”...more

Building rank-and-file confidence and key to stopping "right-to-work" and fighting austerity

On March 2 there was a gathering of over 700 trade unionists at a Workers’ Rights Conference held by the...more

SNC Lavalin has years of bribery and corruption scandals.

Recent reports in the The Globe and Mail have revealed that in December 2011, SNC-Lavalin's then chief executive, Pierre Duhaime,...more

Harper's budget hides attacks on unions and indigenous communities, and growing corporatization and militarization

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s 2013 budget, dubbed Economic Action Plan 2013, is a familiar Harper-style feat of smoke and mirrors...more

“Pay what they owe and break up this band of crooks.” HSBC is in trouble in Agentina only months after paying $1.9 billion fines in the US.

“Pay what they owe and break up this band of crooks,” demanded Ricardo Echegaray head of Argentina's tax agency, as...more

The documentary shows the reality of the Russian Revolution, which was buried by both Washington and Moscow

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Tsar to Lenin is an astonishing record of the Russian Revolution of 1917 . It...more

By not supporting self-determination, the NDP's "Unity Act" undermines a united fightback in Quebec and English Canada

When former NDP MP Claude Patry crossed the floor to join the Bloc Québécois in late February, the brief buzz...more