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Trumbo trivializes McCarthy terror
By choosing to focus on Trumbo, Hollywood minimizes the right-wing witch-hunts that destroyed thousands of lives
Revisiting the days of the McCarthy witch-hunt is relevant today. In the 1940s and 50s anti-communist hysteria fueled support for...more)
After Paris: climate change or system change?
The climate accord is not historic, but the growing climate justice movement is
“Years from now, today may very well be the day our children look back to as the beginning of an...more)
'Cowspiracy' isn't causing the climate crisis, capitalism is
Our food system isn't unsustainable because it includes animals, it's unsustainable because of capitalism
Cowspiracy shines a light on the carbon emissions of the animal agriculture industry, but its beam is so narrow that...more)
UberXploited: behind the Toronto taxi wars
It's not Taxis vs Uber, it's workers against corporations and a complicit mayor
On Wednesday taxi drivers in Toronto took their battle against Uber to the streets. The protest was just the latest...more)
Interview: inside Quebec’s struggle against austerity
Quebec activist Nora Loreto explains the growing resistance and lessons we can learn
You wouldn’t know it from the corporate media in English Canada, but Quebec is in the midst of a massive...more)
Quebec teachers’ union marches in Gatineau
Teachers marched on the School Board to defend education
A crowd of red toques—the colour of the Fédération autonome de l'enseignement (FAE), representing 34,000 teachers in 800 primary and...more)
Quebec general strike: “The most important strike since 1972”
On December 9 half a million workers across Quebec went on strike against austerity
On December 8, Jacques Letourneau, President of one of Quebec’s largest union federations, the CSN, said on Twitter: “Tomorrow’s general...more)
International statement: We fight dictatorships, imperialist aggression and Daesh. We reject the politics of “national security”, racism and austerity. It’s time to mobilise!
Oppose war, racism and counter-revolution
Over recent months, people across the Middle East have been hit by an intensification of conflict in Syria and Iraq...more)
Labour for climate justice
Video by labour activist Carolyn Egan on the fight for climate jobs
The past few months have seen tens of thousands march for climate justice from Quebec City, to Toronto, to Ottawa,...more)
Quebec Common Front: province-wide strike December 9
December 9 will be a mass strike against austerity
The Quebec Common Front—which represents all the major trade union federations in Quebec, including more than 400,000 provincial government workers...more)
Stop the repression of South Korean trade unionists
Add your name to the solidarity appeal
On 14 November 2015, about 100,000 people, most of them trade unionists, took to the streets of Seoul in response...more)
Greek general strike provokes political crisis
The second general strike in a month is challenging austerity and provoking political crisis
As Greece’s parliament debates its budget, workers held the second general strike in a month today, Thursday. Again it was...more)
CUPE 3903 Day of Solidarity with UNITE local 75
Solidarity is growing for hospitality workers on strike for 8 weeks
December 2, 2015 was CUPE 3903’s Day of Solidarity with UNITE local 75. Throughout the day, 50 or so York...more)
Real Change means an Accessible Canada for all
Share the #AccessibleCanada4All campaign with your networks
On December 3rd, let’s remind Trudeau what an #AccessibleCanada4All looks like. Canada has a new government, and with that new...more)
Peterborough: no to hate, yes to love
The whole community rallied against the recent attack on the local mosque
During the night of November 14, the only mosque in the city of Peterborough was attacked. Arsons broke in and...more)
UNITE HERE Local 75: their fight is our fight
Show your support by bringing your friends out to 30 Norfinch Drive, North York
As they head into the seventh week of their strike and the weather turns cold, workers of UNITE HERE local...more)
“the first Marxist steampunk”
Freedom & Necessity by Steven Brust & Emma Bull
Freedom and Necessity takes place in 1849, the year after the failed European revolutions and the subsequent backlash.
Review of Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust & Emma Bull This little bombshell has been variously described as the...more)
Saskatchewan: refugees in, Brad Wall out
People in Saskatchewan rallied against Brad Wall's racist attack on refugees
Last week was a particularly disgraceful and embarrassing one for Saskatchewan politicians and public figures, who used the Paris tragedy...more)
Tell Justin Trudeau: climate action now
Join the November 29 climate demonstrations!
Much of the opposition that challenged Harper was from the Indigenous-led climate justice movement. If the Liberals campaign slogan “real...more)
'Diversity' and the fight against racism
Fighting racism requires working class struggle, not corporate lip service to diversity
In her article in Salon.com , “Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word,” Ellen Berrey...more)
Keystone XL rejection: a victory for climate justice?
While Obama's rejection of Keystone was also motivated by US strategy, it was won through mobilization and adds pressure on Trudeau
Enormous praise should go out to the climate movement for putting pressure on the Obama administration to reject the Keystone...more)
Quebec’s fight against austerity in education
Students, parents and teachers are uniting against austerity
Those who oppose austerity internationally are once again watching Quebec, with a new strike and protest movement unfolding this fall...more)
Nipissing University Faculty strike
Students organized a sit-in to support their faculty
November 2, Nipissing university faculty in North Bay went on their first ever strike. The issues are fair compensation, meaningful...more)
After Paris: no to racism and imperialist wars that breed horror
Those who died in Paris are themselves further victims of Western-backed wars and the reaction against them.
The appalling killings in Paris are horrific. Our sympathy is with the victims and their families and friends. But we...more)
What will we strike for? Ontario Public Service ‘No’ campaign
Despite workers' resistance, trade union leaders settled for concessions,
After almost a year of bargaining, 34,000 OPSEU members who work directly for the government of Ontario ratified two contacts...more)

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