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NDP Leadership race: can it magnify the movements?

What do socialists say about the NDP leadership race?

For socialists believing that change happens outside Parliament, the leadership race of the NDP is still an important matter, but the criteria are different. The question is not one of personality, but of ability to open up space for mass movements.more

Tory threat to abortion rights

The battle for choice continues

As right-wing forces in the US and Canada try to use the economic crisis to attack a women's right to choose, the pro-choice movement must once again mobilize for abortion rights.more

More blood for oil in Uganda

US sends special forces to Uganda

In its competition with China over Africa's resources, the US has sent 100 special forces into Uganda--where a major oil reserve was discovered in 2006.more

"Be realistic, demand the impossible"

When France was occupied

Long before the Occupy Wall Street movement rattled the ruling class of America, students and workers in France occupied. May '68 showed the spark and creativity of student occupations, and the need to connect to workers.more

Occupy everything

Strategy and tactics of the Occupy movement

One of the most exciting things about the Occupy protests is the widespread discussion they have sparked, both within the movement itself and among the wider public, about creating resistance to the capitalist system and building alternatives to it. Some of the questions are new. Many others have come up in previous movements. That means today's movement will have both lessons to offer and lessons to learn.more

Durban Climate Change summit: The time for talk is over

The UN Conference on Climate Change

The upcoming UN Conference on Climate Change takes placed amidst increasing extreme weather disasters and a rising tide of mass revolt worldwide. It's either system change, or climate change.more

Occupy, strike, resist

The Occupy movement begins...

Protests in Oakland show the depth of popular discontent of the Occupy movement, which follows on the waves of the Arab spring and the occupation in Wisconsin. The next steps are to take the movement into campuses and workplaces.more

Wheat Board battle heats up

Farmers challenge the Harper government

The Harper government has tabled Bill C-18 to end the Canadian Wheat Board and deregulate the grain market. But farmers are fighting back.more

Israel hijacks aid ship, tasers activist

Canadians attempt to break the siege on Gaza

The Canadian Boat to Gaza made a second attempt in early November to deliver medical aid to Gaza and break...more

Business as usual after historic prisoner swap

Israel frees prisoners, then returns to war crimes

Less than two weeks after Israel freed over 1,000 Palestinian political prisoners in exchange for a single Israeli soldier captured...more