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Trump, authoritarianism and the far-right

Postal workers on strike to defend jobs and a public postal service

Join the picket lines!

Ontario College full-time support staff start the countdown after high strike mandate vote

Flight attendants defy back-to-work order

Fight Carney’s anti-worker agenda

Don't let the wildfire smoke cloud a vision of the future

Why bike lanes should matter to you

Bill C-2: Another Carney deal with the Devil

Trudeau and Biden tied the border knot, Carney is tightening it.

Solidarity with Chris Smalls and the Handala flotilla

“Resistance is Our Only Weapon Against Evil”

London Film Screening Marks the 35th Anniversary of Mohawk Kanehsatà:ke Resistance

CHS strikers ratify a new collective agreement

It's right to strike

Healthcare not warfare

Carney’s defence spending plan will be a disaster for working people

Power of the People: 250 million workers strike in India 

A view of the largest working-class action this year    

Fighting back makes a difference – saying no to cuts in Peterborough

Alberta separatism is a ploy to increase fossil fuel profits

Alberta Premier Smith relies on far-right groups in separatism referendum

Trump fears and centrism at the heart of Canadian and Australian elections

Two elections where neo-liberalism hides behind Trump

Graduate workers' strike at Queen’s University: a milestone in the growing resistance against austerity

Six week strike at Queen's shows the need to widen the battle against austerity on campuses

“Western racism is its DNA”: Talk by Palestinian scholar Saree Makdisi on genocide in Gaza

From Residential Schools to Sir John A MacDonald - The Conservatives try to erase Canada’s genocidal history

Mark Carney – Neoliberal Climate Gas-lighter

MacKinnon’s EI tinkering will not move the needle in our favour

BC Court: Racist RCMP violated rights of Indigenous Land Defenders

Amazon’s war on workers: Quebec warehouse closures spark mass protest and call for system change

Stop Ford’s destruction of Ontario for corporate profit

Ford is vulnerable on the question of healthcare - he can be defeated

Amazon shuts Quebec operations to stop union drive

Brampton encampment closes but the fight is just beginning

The ceasefire agreement and the fight for a free Palestine

Israel cannot be trusted to implement the agreement - stay on the streets for Palestine!

Postal workers hold fast on the picket lines despite attacks

CUPW Vancouver members occupy Liberal MP’s office in protest as Canada Post denies coverage of postal worker’s cancer medication

Solidarity with striking postal workers

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NDP makes gains but Moe still wins in Saskatchewan

Good enough to work - Good enough to stay

NDP failures provide opening for BC Conservatives

Conservatives are vulnerable and movements can push back the far-right

BC Election – NDP keeps moving right and Greens move to the left

Strike levels show mood to fight

One year on – End Israeli terror

We need to oppose a wider Israeli/US led war

International students fight Trudeau deportation plans

Join the encampment at 295 Queen St. East in Brampton.

Don't let Ford undermine fantastic Grassy Narrows solidarity

Hands off Lebanon – arms embargo now

Liberals lose longstanding hold on Lasalle-Emard-Verdun in Montreal byelection

Result shows Trudeau is toast

Saskatchewan: will lacklustre NDP hand victory to Scott Moe?

Support Fred Hahn - It is right to oppose genocide

All out to support locked out rail workers!

Support public safety and workers rights

From Jasper to Kerala - Climate chaos and capitalism

LCBO workers show it's right to strike

It's right to strike

Microsoft outage and digital monopolies

Student Revolt in Bangladesh

Horror in Gaza

New reports show the death toll Gaza is much worse than the official count

Liquor Store workers strike back at Ford

Liquor and beer purchases should fund hospitals, not billionaires’ yachts

Westjet decision exposes the sham of Liberal “anti-scab” legislation

CUPE Ontario convention 2024 – continuing the struggle

Tax rich polluters for a just transition

Election in India: Modi loses majority

The BJP landslide didn't happen this time

Stop gas plant expansion

Doug Ford is set to increase emissions dramatically in Ontario

Nurses and other Quebec unions slam the CAQ

PSAC 610 strike shows strong results of union solidarity at Western

Red Alert: New report confirms planetary heating is accelerating

A new World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report shows that planetary heating is accelerating.

Canadian mining: Trampling human rights at home and abroad

Canadian corporations have been dubbed the "Ugly Canadians"

LCBO workers fight Ford’s privatization

Ford can be beaten!

Canada, Palestine and Imperialism 

Canada is an imperial nation with a history of brutal colonization and genocide

Saskatchewan Teachers take job actions to save public education

Teachers are fighting Scott Moe's cuts and his bigotry

Trans rights under attack in Alberta

Urgent actions are required to defend trans youth

How do you spell racist: RCMP!

RCMP are recorded using racist slurs against indigenous land defenders

Automated Genocide: How Israel’s ‘The Gospel’ is a ‘mass assassination factory’

New AI tools allow Israel to get away with murder

The COP28 climate talks are a farce.

New agreement will do nothing to halt the climate crisis

“Parental Rights” or Far-Right Hatred

The socialist call to protect access to public education is more important now than ever.

From India to Canada: The Global Reach of Hindutva Extremism

Victory to the Longshore workers!

The ILWU strike shows the power of the working class in action

International student workers occupy and win!

The fight is not over and further solidarity may be needed

Protect Trans students - the fight for policy 713 in New Brunswick

Sign the petition and join the fight

#StatusCodeRed - Toronto paramedics fight underfunding

Support the campaign - links in article

RCMP 150: a history of racism and violence

Hundreds of thousands say no to Ford’s healthcare privatization

How can this mass poll be the foundation of a new movement?

Workers at Casino Woodbine fight and win

Strong pickets shut down the casino and paved the way to a win

Reflection on elections in Turkey: there is no short-cut to defeat the AKP-MHP alliance and Erdogan for the working class.

Charge Imperial Oil for cover-up of toxic tar sands tailings leak

The takings leak went on for 9 months before anyone was told

Langara campaign to kick RBC off campus

Solidarity with Wet'suwet'en Land Defenders

Graduate workers and students in Ontario refuse to be “squarely in red.”

Israel ramps up attacks on Palestinians

New ultra-nationalist coalition is increasing repression and violence against Palestinians

Cops and property developers win big in Vancouver election

More police will only bring more violence to Vancouver

Philanthrocapitalism and the whitewashing of corporate greed

London Ontario’s Farhi Holdings Corporation Reminds Us Why Philanthrocapitalism is Dangerous

More police will only bring more violence to Vancouver

We need to defund and abolish the racist police

Toronto is throwing billions into a hole in the ground.

P3 projects are a disaster

Keuhne+Nagle warehouse workers strike and win in Mississauga!

Alberta’s UCP: smash and grab government

Danielle Smith is pushing for more cuts and more privatization.

Ford mum on meeting with far-right president

Support Ontario education workers!

Defend the right to strike

Two-faced Liberals: environment gets talk, oil gets money

Thousands march in solidarity with Iranian women

Canada out of Haiti

It isn't about gangs it is about Canadian Imperialism

Global climate strike calls for people not profit

450 actions around the globe

Brazil elections: Bolsonaro, Lula and the left

What are the prospects for the left in the Brazilian election

Secret deal with Vatican: Harper sold out Residential School victims

Strike for Safety! What are the TSSA workers fighting for?

Opseu workers are on strike for a first contract

Climate disaster strikes Lytton, BC for the 3rd time in a year

BC NDP devotion to natural gas will create greater emergencies in the future.

The far-right and the fight for trans rights

The far-right is using trans rights to build a campign of hate

Fighting for housing rights under capitalism

Housing is a human right

Strike wave: 45,000 construction workers on strike in Ontario

Mourn the dead, Fight like hell for the living!

April 28 is a day of mourning for workers killed on the job

CP strike exposes Canada’s rail oligarchs and their Tory pals

Liberals plan to ramp up spending on war

We need to oppose Trudeau's planned spending spree

Essential healthcare workers at Lifelabs strike for a first contract

Kenney’s all-out war on public health

Tory governments are using the pandemic to push for-profit healthcare

Where's the Climate Plan, Justin?

Canada's emissions keep rising and there is no plan to reduce impacts

Starbucks union wave - What are the workers asking for?

What's behind the union drive?

University faculty striking back!

Faculty and student workers are fighting for a fair deal

Progressive politician faces violence in wake of convoy

Trucker convoy leaves stinking fumes

Ford’s Bill 37: Profits 1, Long-Term Care 0

New law means more government cash for for profit LTCs

Uprising in Kazakhstan

What is behind the protests in Kazakhstan?

New far-right threat for Ontario

Far right finding new formations amid pandemic chaos

Public Sector workers’ pandemic strike back

Public sector workers in Canada are fighting austerity

Trudeau, Horgan fiddle while BC drowns

The climate crisis isn't in the future. It is here right now

Report on the refugees on the Polish Belarusian border

Anti-fascists march in Warsaw

Governments promises evolve too slowly for climate crisis

Justice for Joyce Echaquan

Home runs, broken bats and climate change

#Striketober | What's behind the strike wave in the US?

Workers are fed up and fighting back across the country

Hollow words of Reconciliation

Election fallout: Greens wilt

Lyin’ Brian spills the beans

Afghanistan, Imperialism and Canada

Imperial meddling caused this situation to exist. More Imperial meddling will not solve it.

Energy workers call for just transition

Fossil fuel workers must be part of the fight against climate change

COVID: too soon to relax

Re-opening plans are about profit - not people's health

As universities reopen in fall, we must fight for worker safety

University workers and students must unite

Rexplas strike ends in victory

Workers held the line and won: a short report from the vote at Rexplas

Kenney lies to escape his racist record

Islamophobia and the Canadian state

From London to Kamloops to Gaza, racism is a pillar of the Canadian state

PSWs Rally for Decent Work

PSWs are fighting for better wages and conditions, ongoing benefits, and more full-time work

Turtle Island to Palestine – Colonialism is a crime

Report from an Indigenous perspective on Palestine from the vigil in St Catharines

Labour for Palestine

Hamilton Young Workers organize support for Palestine

Quebec, racism, and the left

Québec solidaire has censured its own anti-racism collective. What does this mean for the Quebec left's ability to confront systemic racism?

No Better Way to Spend May Day than on a Picket Line! Support the Rexplas Workers!

Support the Rexplas Workers!

War in Eastern Europe?

Ukraine is torn apart by two imperialisms -"East" and "West."

Mi’kmaw fishers face fresh racist harassment from feds

Amazon workers in final push to win union

Review: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

What can the war Communism of the Russian revolution teach us about how to stop COVID?

Community and workers join to fight toxic racism in construction

Inside the campaign for racial justice after nooses found on construction sites

Poland: Women against fascism

Polish women lead the way againt the right wing government

COVID and capitalism: vaccine nationalism and trade deals

Trudeau's capacity problem was manufactured by Liberal and Conservative trade deals.

Shut down Canada - reports from BC pipeline blockades

Solidarity with Indigenous land defenders

Bill Morneau: making a grab for your pension.

CLC: WTF!

Rebel loses again

Support Alberta health care wildcats!

Justice for Abdirahman Abdi!

Systemic Racism killed Joyce Echaquan

Thousands march calling for #JusticeforJoyce

Standoff in Port of Montreal Strike

Justice for Mark and Candace

Trade unionists and community members rally against racist attacks

Russia: Workers fight back against COVID austerity

Putin's referendum: Report from Russian socialists

Kenney destroys jobs, lives and the planet. Image CC BY-NC-NC 2.0 Government of Alberta

Jason Kenney vs. the future of Alberta

Jason Kenney destroys jobs, lives and the planet

Toronto rallies against racism and police brutality

Capitalism, profit and workers resistance: Long Term Care and Meat Packing

Workers are being asked to die to make profits for the corporations, but they are fighting back.

Review: A Rebel’s Guide to Engels by Camilla Royle

New book outlines Engels thought and his impact on the world

Racism, Imperialism and COVID-19

As the crisis deepens, more racism will be whipped up to challenge China's rise

Indigenous sovereignty, pandemic and the Wet'suwet'en struggle

Canada continues to build the CGL pipeline - further endangering Indigenous communities

International Socialist tendency statement on the coronavirus

Bail out workers - not big business

Public transit - if it isn't safe for drivers, it isn't safe for passengers

BCNDP disgrace: throne speech hypocrisy

First we lose Manhattan….

Sports Report: An impeach of a World Series

Solidarity with Catalonia

Green results wither

People’s Party: down but unfortunately not out

Victory on Church Street: Love not hate makes our city great

Victory over the far-right on LGBTQ rights

Protesters disrupt board meeting at the Wyatt Detention Center

Stop incarceration for profit: Rhode Island protesters say no to private prisons

Sports reports: Trump finds diamonds in the rough

The Pentagon bails out Trump's failing golf resort

Australian pol reveals void at capitalism’s heart: Human survival is just “annoying”

Protestors demand green debate

Planned economics under capitalism – The People’s republic of Walmart – Review

What do Walmart and Amazon teach us about the possibility of planned economies?

Rest in power Crystal Papineau

Crystal Papineau is the latest victim of Toronto’s housing crisis

Thousands take to the streets to demand action to tackle climate change during Quebec Election

Quebec solidaire is amplifying the climate justice movement's demands for change

Hull nurses stage second sit-in against austerity

The combination of job action and the electoral alternative QS can rebuild healthcare

Janitors at UBC - Okanagan voted 90% in favour of joining a union

Janitors sweep rat union off BC campuses!

After many months janitors at several BC colleges and universities liberate themselves from an employer dominated rat union and join the Service Employees International Union.

Toronto municipal election: Walied Khogali for Councillor - Ward 23

Walied brings his antiracist organizing to the municipal elections

Rally for decent work challenges Ford’s anti-worker agenda

The mass rally shows the mood to defend and extend workers gains, regardless of Ford's victory

Marxism 2018: join the resistance

The two day conference in Toronto highlighted multiple struggles

The Black left: left out and underestimated

The Black Portraitures conference brought scholars, activists and artists together to celebrate and strategize radical change

March for Our Lives and America’s foundations of violence

When millions march against gun violence, it can expose the capitalist and imperialist system fuelling violence

Indigenous-led protests will stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion

From mass protests to legal challenges, the Indigenous led climate justice movement will stop Trudeau's pipeline

Fight for $15 strategizes road to the Ontario election and beyond

The campaign will push all candidates to reflect workers demands, and continue regardless of who is elected

Toronto talks climate reform, walks austerity

The "balanced budget" refuses to fund the climate plan

No deportations to torture: let Harkat stay

Trudeau is continuing Harper's secret trials and threat to deport Mohamed Harkat to torture

QS convention and radical independence

QS has merged with Option national and is building towards next October's election

Ottawa shuts down far-right ‘ACT! for Canada’

A community mobilization shut down an Islamophobic film screening

$15 and Fairness challenges higher education participation in Ontario Chamber of Commerce

First Nations fight nuclear waste

The nuclear industry wants to bury toxic waste near First Nations' land

Young Workers Assembly shares lessons of the Fight for $15 and Fairness

More than 200 young workers from across the province shared lessons planned ahead

On déteste les racistes! 5000 march in Montreal against racism

The march showed that the anti-racist movement is strong in Quebec

Anti-racist actions across the country

Anti-racist mobilizations are driving the bigots off the street

Berlin counter-protesters stop Nazi march

Despite police efforts, anti-fascist protesters stopped the Nazis from marching

BC NDP’s crawl to $15

Rebuild the BC Fight for $15 campaign to get to $15/hour immediately!

Solidarity with Swissport Workers

Worker safety = flight safety

NDP leadership debate: movements are pushing candidates left

After Mulcair's failure in 2015, candidates are finally starting to respond to movements

Report: Injured Workers’ Day rally and march

Workers harmed at the workplace are fighting for compensation

Indigenous sovereignty from Standing Rock to Unist’ot’en

LaDonna Allard from Standing Rock and Freda Huson from Unist'ot'en shared their lessons

World against Trump

People marched against Trump and Trudeau's pipelines

Fight for $15 and Movement for Black Lives join forces to “fight racism, raise pay!”

A new coalition is linking the fight for economic and racial equality

Support Canadian Hearing Society workers on strike

While the CEO salary has skyrocketed, Canadian Hearing Society staff have been cut and salaries held down

Provincial strategy session maps out fight for $15 in 2017

After a victorious strike at York, the fight for $15 could make its way to the provincial election

Trudeau: We're Watching You

Trudeau is continuing Harper's attack on civil liberties

Support food service workers

York food service workers are fighting for $15/hr minimum wage and against anti-Black racism and Islamophobia

National day of action on electoral reform

Trudeau breaks another promise

United against Islamophobia

A thousand people demanded an end to refugee bans

The world against Trump

The protests were HUGE

Trump inauguration protest: eyewitness report

Despite police violence, thousands challenged Trump and joined anti-inaugurations events

Vancouver: three different rallies against Trump

Three separate events tested politics and tactics

Five-thousand against Trudeau's pipeline

No consent, no pipeline!

Fight for 15 $ in Outaouais, Quebec

The 5,10,15 coalition is demanding 5 days' notice of scheduling, 10 paid sick days and $15/hr

Outaouais, Québec : La Marche pour nos rivières

Resisting the "Sixties Scoop” theft of Indigenous children

Indigenous peoples are demanding justice for the theft of children in the 1960s

Solidarity grows at the World Social Forum

The World Social Forum built solidarity across Canada, Quebec and the world

Eyewitness to the DNC: spectacle and revolt

Dissent and marches at the DNC were not shown on TV.

Black Lives Matter: Abdirahman Abdi mattered

Hundreds joined the vigil for Abdirahman Abdi after the police executed him in the streets

15 plus: Quebec's fight for $15 an hour

A strike for the $15 minimum wage shut down Montreal's old port

Grassy Narrows mercury poisoning is an emergency! Wynne: clean the river now!

Rapid response to fake toxic sludge at Queen's park exposes decades of environmental racism

Migrant Workers rally in Toronto and across Canada

Rallies across the Canada challenged the exploitation of migrant workers

Fight for $15, from Chicago to Toronto

Working class struggle is building, from Chicago teachers to Toronto airport workers

Iron and Earth: oil sands workers demand climate jobs

Workers fired by tar sands corporations are asking for training in renewables

Black Lives Matter-Toronto confront Wynne and Tory

Activists hosted a vigil outside the Premier's home, and went to City Hall and the mayor's office

Rallies across the country tell Trudeau to stop the war

March 19 was an international day of action against war and racism

Contract faculty day of action

February 11 was a day of action to support contract faculty across Ontario

SFU Students Stand in Solidarity with TSSU

Their working conditions are our learning conditions

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.

Saskatoon unwelcomes Harper

On one days notice 200 people protested Harper's visit

Toronto Disability Pride calls for ‘ramps, not bombs!’

The fifth annual march challenged austerity and oppression

'We are UofT, we fight against misogyny'

A mass rally and march reclaimed UofT as a safe space and vowed to drive misogynists off campus

Toxic Tour exposes environmental racism and builds resistance

The biggest toxic tour yet exposed chemical colonialism and demanded climate justice

Toronto marches against Bill C-51

The Liberal/Tory support for Bill C-51 has not stopped the majority opposition to the draconian bill

Justice, jobs and climate rally launch

The press conference brought together indigenous, student, labour and migrant justice organizers

Altogether to fight racism

Black Lives Matter-Toronto protested racism on both sides of the border, while a Winnipeg conference discussed oppression

Quebec: the spark and the flame

The challenge is making the Front Commun real for rank and file workers catching up with the questions students are asking.

Québec solidaire: the ballot box and the street

The rise of QS reflects movements against austerity

May Day in Quebec: dress rehearsal for the fight against austerity?

May 1 saw more than 100 protests and strikes across Quebec, which built local struggles against austerity

Toronto rallies for $15 and fairness

April 15 was a global day of action, with strikes and protests to raise the minimum wage

Tens of thousands march for climate justice

Like the People's Climate March last September, Act on Climate mobilized the 99% for climate justice

Quebec Spring returns

Thousands joined the start of weekly anti-austerity protests, as tens of thousands of students are on strike

Solidarity grows for CUPE 3902

From letters of support, to student walkout and an upcoming joint rally with CUPE 3903, solidarity grows

Québec: 100 actions contre l'austérité/100 anti-austerity actions

Les manifestants on fait fuir notre premier ministre/Protesters chased away the Quebec Premier

CUPE 3902 strike: students and workers united

For the second day in a row, hundreds marched in support of CUPE 3902 on strike at UofT

Solidarity builds for CUPE 3902

Solidarity is growing for campus strikers, from a labour rally today, student rally tomorrow and possible rally at Queen's Park

Justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women: ten years on

On the 10th anniversary of cross-country vigils, Indigenous women and their allies are continuing the movement for justice

Striking home care workers suggest Wynne "chop from the top"

CCAC CEO's have given themselves massive pay hikes while home care workers are only asking for 1.4%

Fight for fifteen!

Activists in BC are fighting for a $15 an hour minimum wage

Justice for Phuong Na Du

Phuong Na Du survived imperialist war but was killed by police for being an immigrant with mental health issues

125,000 contre l’austerité

La manifestation fut une réussite et ce n'est que le début de notre lutte contre l'Austérité

Anti-war rallies across the country

Hundreds rallies across the country against Harper's latest war

Canada Post is about to impair disabled people

We need to save door-to-door delivery and stop Canada Post from sacrificing privacy and mobility for profits

Disability Pride: self-determination and solidarity

The fourth annual Toronto Disabilty Pride March exposed the Ontario Liberals and built unity in the struggle

CUPE Ontario prepares to take on Kathleen Wynne

An emergency meeting discussed the cuts, the elections, and the general strike

Reproductive justice day of action

September 20 was a pan-Canadian reproductive justice day of action

People's Climate March: a movement rises

400,000 marched on the UN climate summit, along with 2,600 actions around the world

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