News

Capitalism fanned the flames in Lahaina

Climate change and land use decisions created the castastrophe in Lahaina

Climate change threatening food supplies

Say NO to discharge of radioactive waste water at Fukushima

There is no safe way to release that much radioactive waste

Canada breaks wildfire record

Urgent action is needed to stop the superheating of the planet

Alberta Election: Far right holds on to its prairie stronghold

Disorganization and denial: UCP response to wildfire disaster

Trump arraignment a dangerous moment

Liberal budget baloney

Healthcare privatization: the feds are in on the con

John Tory - SuperMayor wants more cops

Canada refuses to condemn Nazism

Quebec police have Black drivers on their radar

Quebec: Cops and racism, CAQ style

The view from the Saskatchewan legislature

Saskatchewan turns back the clock – 60 million years

Scrap Bill 23

Saskatchewan Party fetes convicted murderer at throne speech

Hurricane Fiona is only the worst yet

More devastation to come unless we take radical action now

Convoy grifter convicted of libel, contempt

Bill for blood tests posted to twitter by cancer patient

Ontario healthcare - stealth privatization

Hamilton Wentworth District School Board defied Ford over masks

Strong Strike Mandate for Graduate Student-Workers (PSAC 901) at Queen’s University

Who knew there were fireplaces in St Barts

Ontario: big rat jumps DoFo ship ahead of election

BC forestry plan is lose-lose for Indigenous nations, forestry workers and the planet

BC forestry plan will rescue profits, not jobs or trees

Where did all the nurses go?

Moe's horrible handling stokes pandemic in Saskatchewan

Movie death no “accident”

Off-shore oil shows Liberals’ true climate plan

Liberal smokescreen calls oil subsidies a climate plan

People’s Party gains are bad news

Alberta COVID crisis: made by Kenney

Election Diary Episode 3: Greens en route to historic fail

Steelworkers solidarity picket for NRI workers shuts down Tomlinson Systems in Ancaster

Investigating genocide

Reconciliation cannot proceed without the truth

Extinction Rebellion activists are hungry to meet the Premier

Hunger strike in solidarity with Fairy Creek Blockade

The roots of the crisis in Ethiopia

Toronto mass rally supports Palestinian struggle

SOS Colombia

The people of Colombia demand justice!

Workers' actions forced safety measures at Canada Post

Rank and file workers have to protect themselves

COVID and homelessness: Toronto leaves the most vulnerable out in the cold

Kenney’s coal plan running into mountain of resistance

Kenney is facing broad opposition to destructive coal mining expansion

Doug Ford silences COVID critics

Doctors are being fired for challenging the premier

Pond Inlet protest in solidarity with hunters' blockade

Solidarity with Inuit blockade at Baffinland Iron Mine

"The transportation of iron ore has been halted."

Jason Kenney slides into oily frenzy

Kenney's oil gamble is a big loss for Alberta

Tories whitewash their white supremacy streak

Bill C-15: UNDRIP as cover for ongoing colonialism

Trudeau's bill is a smokescreen

Liberals' false Climate Plan

Far from a clean energy transition, plan locks us in to rmost carbon intensive fossil fuels on the planet

Liberals try to make the poor pay

Rich corporations got billions but working people are being forced to pay back much needed funds

Police attempt to intimidate anti-pipeline activists

Cops arrest and fine XR spokespeople

COVID and Capitalism: Vaccines and debt

Rich countries are buying up most of the vaccines and the debt crisis in Africa will make the sitation even harder.

COVID and capitalism: vaccines and magic bullets

Bosses and politicians want you to die for profits

They have decided that profits trump people

Union members join solidarity action at 1492 Land Back Lane

Labour and community show solidarity with 1492 Land Back Lane

Haudenosaunee Land Defenders fight threat to land rights

“Ride for Rights” demonstration in August 2020 highlighting the demands for justice for migrant workers, such as safe housing, open work permits, and pathways to permanent residency.

Dignity for Migrant Workers

Provincial and Federal governments endanger migrant workers

Shut Down Hate banner at Michael Garron hospital

Facing the far right in Canada

Murder of Mohamed-Aslim Zafis by a racist with ties to nazis shows urgency of organizing against the far-right

Blockade against TMX

Struggle against pipeline gains momentum

Nova Scotia to Alberta: Racism runs rampant

We neeed to fight racist attacks from the east coast to the west

Kenney admits “Safe Schools” are a fiction

Bill 195 and 32 | Tory attacks on labour rights from Ontario to Alberta

Tory premiers are using covid to suspend collective agreements but workers are fighting back

Surprise, the Conservatives elected a tool

Dr. Takaro is suspended 25 metres up to stop the TMX pipeline expansion

Who is Tim Takaro? Why is he in a tree?

SFU professor is supended 25 metres up in the trees to stop the TMX pipeline

Six Nations land defenders at 1492 Land Back Lane

Haudensaunee land defenders retake 1492 Land Back Lane

Police & Premier side with real estate developers against Six Nations land defenders

Black Lives Matter in the Beaches

A report on the east-end Toronto Black Lives Matter rally

Day of Rage Occupies Canada’s Busiest Intersection

Disability and Police Violence in Pandemic Times

Parliamentary Budget Officer exposes looters and thieves

100 families own $1 out of every $50 in Canada

Justice for Chantel Moore rally in Vancouver

Vancouver protests against police, for a better world

Solidarity rallies across Vancouver call for change

Stanley Edom addresses Black Lives Matter rally in New Westminster, BC

Black Lives Matter in New Westminster

New Westminster, BC joins global movement against racism

This protest in Calgary on June 3 would be illegal under the new law

Alberta Conservatives try to outlaw protest

Alberta passes law to prevent protest on private & public property, sidewalks, roads, & parking lots

Vancouver rallies against racism and police brutality

10,000 in Vancovuer join global movement against racism and police

Race, Poverty, Class and COVID-19 in Toronto

Covid map shows racism and poverty define the crisis in Toronto

Delivery workers deserve hazard pay!

Delivery workers are on the front line but many are working in dangerous conditions without hazard pay or protective equipment

Liberals, NDP, exclude international students from emergency fund

After contributing billions in fees, international students excluded from emergency fund

Kenney attacks Alberta's rural health care

Support laid off transit workers in BC

Workers get layoffs while executives get bonuses

The working class shows the way

Workers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis with a new militancy

Viral racism: Being Black is not a pre-existing condition

Liberal cuts made this crisis worse

It was the liberal party that gutted healthcare and employment insurance

Ford's LTC emergency measures: fixing the bosses mess

Alberta attacks public service

"The fastest way to stop the spread is to send people home," construction worker says

Failure to enforce regulations allows disease to spread

No evictions during coronavirus outbreak!

Vancouver Tenants Union calls on province and city to halt evictions

Covid-19: capitalism is sick

Jason Kenney’s war on workers

Canada abets war criminals

The climate movement and the end of Teck

The organizing against climate chaos is winning

Mr. Rule-of-Law and his racist pal, Max Bernier

Jason Kenney: rule of lawbreaker

Blockades, protests, occupations and solidarity with Wet'suwet'en struggle

Partial victory of Land Defenders: now's the time to keep up the solidarity

NB Tories back down on health care cuts - for now

It can’t happen here? Green Party sabotages ecosocialist challenge

Neo-Nazis flock to gun rights rally

No Pipelines: Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en nation

Solidarity is needed to stop the RCMP invasion of Wet’suwet’en land

Don’t let this tragedy be used to justify war.

Mourn for the victims and fight against any further killing

COP out in Madrid as Climate Talks Collapse

The COP 25 meetings have shown that world leaders hve no interest in challeniging the climate crisis

Ontario Tories crash public transit

Tories undermine public transit in Hamilton and Toronto

Afghanistan papers: The anti-war movement was right…. again

The documents show a systematic and consistent misinformation campaign to try and convince the world that the war in Afghanistan was being won.

Singh and Trudeau NATO fallout

Trudeau is "two faced" about a great many things

Vigil against the CAQ’s law against Muslim women

Vigils held across Quebec against the CAQ religious symbols law

Climate Justice Marches November 29th A Great Success

World Revolt: Uprisings are driven by common trends

What's behind the uprisings around the world

U N Report: Indigenous housing conditions "abhorrent"

“Potentially making large areas of Earth uninhabitable " 

11,000 scientists declare a climate emergency after 40 years of climate agreements have failed. 

Dumping Trump: Impeachment watch

Heeeeeee's Back: Ford comes out of hiding

Doug Ford is back after 5 months in hiding

Climate emergency: California’s Dark

Kenney’s austerity budget slams most vulnerable

Fridays for the Future rally in Vancouver

"Selling our future for their comfort and profit"

Thousands rally for their future.

Why the Bloc Quebecois?

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh supports striking hotel workers

"You are fighting for all workers"

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh joined hotel workers picket line in Vancouver

No to war! No to Turkish state’s military operation in Northern Syria (Rojava)!

Peace in Turkey, peace in Northern Syria, peace in Kurdistan!

500,000 march in Montreal: Quebec and Climate Justice

Why is Quebec ahead on climate change?

Vancouver climate strike: photo by Michael Tseng

A million climate justice protesters can't be wrong: system change now!

Racism and the New Brunswick NDP defections

Protests across Britain against Johnson’s suspension of parliament

Huge demonstrations demanding a general election in the UK

Jakarta is sinking: casualty of climate change

Climate change threatens cities around the world. Jakarta is the first to be abandoned.

Kenney & Ford: Tories on the take

Racism. Screenshot of on-line store Fireforce, run by Canadian Forces personnel.

Canadian Forces and the far-right

A brief history for far-right organizing in Canada's military

Tory plan to cash in on climate chaos

A veteran Tory exposes the system: climate chaos is a golden opportunity to make profit

Artists in! Billionaires out!

Property developers are destroying our city.

‘The movement is at a critical point’—voice from Hong Kong

Mass strikes sustain the struggle for freedom in Hong Kong

Trump’s racism inspires El Paso mass shooting in Texas

Stop the killing of social leaders in Colombia

Global day of action calls for peace and environmental justice

Puerto Ricans show us how to win. Strikes and protests force out Roselló

Analysis and interviews from Puerto Rico's uprising

British Royal Marines board an Iranian oil tanker last month (Pic: Ministry of Defence)

Say no to war against Iran

The US and its allies have a long history of meddling in Iran

Solidarity with Vancouver hospitality workers

ATU solidarity for striking Rainforest Café workers

Cross-union solidarity boosts picket line against bad boss

The CAQ’s racist laws: the struggle continues

The CAQ is pushing for more division but solidarity is growing against racist laws

Liberal hypocrisy on climate emergency

All out to stop the TMX pipeline

Toronto Steelworkers join solidarity action in Trois-Rivières

Solidarity march with locked-out Quebec workers

Thousands gathered to support workers locked out by ABI, a smelter owned by ALCOA.

Rally for reproductive justice at Queen's Park May 2019

The fight for reproductive justice is a fight for us all

Attacks on public health will cut funding to sexual health clinics that provide both birth control and abortion referrals in Ontario

Canada’s Genocide

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls finds Canada committing systemic genocide

Elizabeth May photo by Mark Kortum CC BY 2.0

A grayer shade of Green

Elizabeth May's environmental policies align with Scheer, and even oil industry shill Ezra “Ethical Oil” Levant

Austrian neo-Nazi Strache self-destructs as resistance to far-right builds in Europe

The stakes are high in the elections to European parliament May 23-26

“Gig economy same old crap, exploitation in an app!”

Support the Foodora couriers fight for better wages!

Green supporters, photo by Nanaimo—Ladysmith Green Party

Greens profit from climate movement in by-election

The climate movement is much bolder than the Green Party.

Demonstratio against Quebec's Bill 21 banning religious symbols

English Canada, racism and Quebec

Anti-racists across the Canadian state need to shut down hate and show solidarity wherever we are.

International Workers Day in Hamilton

Rage against Ford fuels May Day

PSOE Socialist Party supporters celebrated on Sunday night (Photo: @PSOE on Twitter)

Spain: the mainstream right shattered, but the far right rises

Celebrate the victory of PSOE, but build the anti-capitalist left.

Members of the VTU celebrate and organize. Photo by Michael Tseng

Vancouver Tenants Union turns two!

Tenants are organzing themselves to take on landlords.

PEI Green supporters. Photo Green Party of PEI Facebook

Plan of Green fables

PEI Greens’ success shows voters’ concern for climate, but we need more

A blustery wind from Alberta

The real opposition to Kenney will be in the streets

Janitors at Fight for $15 and Fairness rally

Justice for Janitors movement wins big in Toronto

Janitors win pensions, health benefits, and surpass $15/hr

Delegates to the founding meeting of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party, photo @OfficialSRWP on Facebook

Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party launches in South Africa

A new workers’ party in South Africa is committed to revolution

Students take protest to SFU Board of Governors

SFU students push for fee freeze

No student a cash cow, tuition freeze now!

Delegates at Quebec solidaire National Council meeting vote overwhelmingly to fight the ban on religious symbols

Quebec solidaire votes to fight ban on religious symbols

Party also launches ultimatum to CAQ government on climate change

Justice for Grassy Narrows

Activists target Trudeau on Grassy Narrows inaction

Anti-racist protesters surrounded and shut down the bigots in Toronto

"No hate, no fear, Muslims are welcome here!"

Another victory in Toronto against Islamophobic hate group.

International Women's Day in Toronto. Photo by Judy Vashti Persad

We Are Fearless – International Women's Day march in Toronto

This year's IWD projected an anti-racist, class perspective.

Students from Ontario and Québec converge on Parliament to fight for their future

Students strike for the climate!

Students in 123 countries joined the climate strike

Statement from Love Aotearoa Hate Racism

Love Aotearoa Hate Racism calls for organization against the racist right.

White supremacists forced to cancel their event

Fascists shut down again in Vancouver

Community organizing in Vancouver shut down the “Free Speech” club and their white supremacist speakers, twice.

AFEA general assembly, photo by Éloi Halloran

Québec students vote for unlimited general strike

More than 30,000 students in 6 regions of Québec have voted to strike later this month

Haitians protest the coup that toppled Jean Bertrand Aristide

Imperialism and resistance in Haiti

Burn the Palaces brought together students and workers from several campuses

Tuition Freeze Now, cross campus solidarity, and keeping the fight alive

The Tuition Freeze Now movement is building a stronger student movement

Community members protest hate in Toronto

Activists shut down bigots in Toronto

Two far-right rallies fizzle in face of anti-racist mobilization

Kashmiri students in Dehradun protest after hostel managers forced some of them from their lodgings just as far right mobs hunted them

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan close to war over Kashmir

The governments of India and Pakistan have no genuine interest in the lives of ordinary people in their countries, and neither do their backers in Beijing and Washington.

Counter-protest calls for just transition and respect for Indigenous sovereignty. Photo: Council of Canadians

Yellow vests, brown shirts: convoy runs out of fuel

Racists drowned out by counter-protest

PowerShift activists debate a Green New Deal for the Canadian state

Proposal can challenge the logic of capitalist system

SNC Lavalin corruption roots run deep

Trudeau has made it easier to be a corporate crook in Canada

Manon Massé speaks at Powershift conference

"They can’t pollute our spirits the way they pollute our rivers”

Powershift panel looks at cross-movement solidarities, from the frontlines to the streets

Racist "yellow vests" outnumbered at Vancouver City Hall

Racist "yellow vests" outnumbered again

Racist "yellow vests" were outnumbered at Vancouver City Hall by two to one.

Solidarity with Vancouver Art Gallery workers!

Vancouver Art Gallery workers face greedy bosses and high rents. A victory for them is a victory for all of us.

A handful of far right supporters were outnumbered by counter-protesters

Far-right fail in Burnaby, BC

Far right fails to find support in Burnaby, BC.

Tuition Freeze Now! – the campaign against tuition hikes at Simon Fraser University

There is no good reason to raise tuition fees at SFU.

South African solidarity action against repression in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe eyewitness – ‘The government has declared war on its citizens’

Desperate regime unleashes judicial terrorism

Barricades are up at GM headquarters: Statement from the Durham Region Labour Council

The Durham Region Labour Council is calling for solidarity with barricades at the General Motors Canadian Headquarters.

“Our rights to these lands have never been extinguished… the jurisdiction of the provincial and federal governments is misleading and false”

The hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en nation have been clear, being forced to allow RCMP and Coastal Gaslink pipeline workers to enter their lands does not mean consent is given.

Resist, Persist!: Third Annual Women’s March On Vancouver

Hope and anger unite third annual women’s march on Vancouver

"We need to create the system that we want to see.”

For the third year in a row, the women's movement is in the streets.

"My gift today for you is a vision of having peace.”

Keep building solidarity for the Wet’suwet’en nation

All nations united with Wet'suwet'en

Around the world, thousands joined rallies to defend the Wet'suwet'en from the RCMP

Vision’s ghost haunts Vancouver’s 2019 budget

Budget gives whopping increase to police

Hands off Unist'ot'en! Respect Indigenous sovereignty

Emergency solidarity actions oppose Trans-Canada injunction

Solidarity action blockades South Central in Toronto

Solidarity actions continue to defend workers rights

T'karonto Rallies to Support Unist’ot’en Camp

“Can’t drink oil. Leave it in the soil.”

Mobilizing Wins a Victory for Renters in Vancouver!

Vancouver activists secure a victory over renovictions

Sound the Alarm: Urgence climatique, courage politique

Thousands march in Montreal as COP24 meets in Poland

‘Extinction Rebellion’ bridge occupation in Victoria

Solidarity with postal workers builds across the country

Cross-country day of action shows willingness to fight Liberals' back-to-work legislation

Corporate Canada wages war on workers - emergency response needed

Labour movement needs a new radical strategy to combat the employer offensive

Solidarity picket at Canada Post depot in Hamilton, Ontario

Defy Trudeau – Defend workers’ right to strike!

Solidarity pickets have sprung up across Canada and Quebec to defy Trudeau's back to work legislation

Confronting the Bolsonaro threat

Neoliberal, racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-democratic agenda represents a massive threat to democratic and social rights in Brazil

CUPW rejects new offer from Canada Post

As the postal workers strike hits 4 weeks, we speak to a picketer in Toronto

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"

Community rallied to stop the hate group Pegida from marching

Jean Swanson speaks to a rally to ban renovictions - photo: Nat Lowe

The Vancouver election is over, but the fight for the City We Need continues

The fight to end homlessness continues after the election

50,000 march in Montreal for urgent climate action

More protests planned in leadup to COP 24

Protesters oppose Steve Bannon in Toronto

Mass protest against Steve Bannon in Toronto

Toronto sent a clear message opposing white supremacist Steve Bannon

COPE will continue the fight for a rent freeze, mansion tax, and an end to homelessness

Radical electoralism: COPE victory in Vancouver

Jean Swanson and COPE's victory in winning a seat on Vancouver city council shows that radical politics can win.

Stephen Harper’s message: give me a fascist any day

Harper would rather Trump--and his far right associates like Bannon--than Corbyn or Sanders

The CAQ: Back to the future

Opposition is growing to the new Quebec government's divide and conquer policies

Breakthrough for Quebec Solidaire

Left party triples seat count and gets ready to fight the right

Rally against the rent hikes organized by the Vancouver Tenants Union

Partial victory for renters, more to come

Organizing in Vancouver reduces rent hikes

Québec solidaire campaigns for a “transition énergétique”

QS supports movements against austerity and for climate justice

Bernier’s goal: drag the country to the right

He might disunite the right, but he will give more confidence to racists

Packed courtroom during sentencing of Water protectors

Water Protectors jailed for defying Kinder Morgan injunction

BC judge sentences activists to jail for opposing disastrous pipeline project

Courts side with Kinder Morgan and sentence "sinister" seniors

Jailing water protectors won't stop mass civil disobedience

New York socialist scores stunning victory

Join Jean Swanson in fighting for the city we need

Swanson's campaign is about building a movement for the 99%

Joel Harden supporting Justice for Janitors

Victory for socialist Joel Harden in Ottawa

Ontario Liberals show their true colours

Wynne's appeal for "neither left nor right" only benefits Ford

Ontario election debate exposes depth of Tory bankruptcy

Ford tried to use his folksy populism to distract from his policies of privatization and austerity

Ontario Tories raise bogus anti-Semitism charges against NDP

The Tories have launched a smear campaign while ignoring their own ties with the far right

BC NDP retreats from opposing Kinder Morgan

With the NDP scaling back its election promise, it's up to the climate justice movement to stop the pipeline

Climate justice movement exposes Liberal complicity with Kinder Morgan

If the Liberals have $10 billion to support Kinder Morgan, why not spend it on climate jobs?

Workers and students deliver petitions demanding justice for janitors.

Justice for Janitors on our campuses

Day of action by workers and students demands respect and fair wages

Dehors Barrette: Quebec health workers fight austerity

Petitions and protests, encouraged by left party Quebec solidaire, are challenging healthcare austerity

Justice for Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine

Trudeau offers platitudes while denying Indigenous sovereignty

International left movements meet to spark bold change in Canada

Over 500 people gather at Courage to Leap forum to tackle the question of how the left can win with bold demands

Don't buy Notley's whine

Notley wine boycott will not help workers, but neither will buying wine

Stop Trudeau's pipeline

The BC NDP has slowed down the hated Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. We need to keep up the pressure.

Parkdale strikes against Nuspor Investments

Dozens of activists and community members turned out in support of the rent strike against Nuspor Investments in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood.

National Day of Action brings mass support to Tim Hortons workers

From coast to coast people are saying "Roll up the Min to Win"

Solidarity rally at Tim Hortons in Cobourg

Province-wide actions support Tim Hortons workers against abusive bosses

Ontario college faculty: organize/strike/win

The arbitration ruling reaffirms the victory of the strike, despite the Liberals undermining it

BC NDP government will build Site C dam in order to defend Liberal tax cuts

Indigenous rights and the environment to be bulldozed under by Site C approval

$15 and Fairness celebrates historic victory and prepares for struggles ahead

The same mass organizing that won $15 and fairness needs to grow to defend and extend the gains

Victory: Ontario Food Terminal workers strike and win workplace fairness

Tibetan refugees went on strike against precarious work and built solidarity to win

Trudeau supports Trump’s nuclear threat

Trudeau applauds Hiroshima survivors but ignores their call for nuclear-free world

Jean Swanson presenting a new tax assessment to Chip Wilson outside the lululemon founder’s $75 million compound in Pt. Grey.

An insurgent left can achieve electoral success — even in Canada

Jean Swanson's vibrant left wing election campaign shows what is possible

Journalistic Sources Protection Act passes in Parliament

Parliament has strengthened press freedom, but Trudeau's support for Bill C-51 is still a barrier

students join picket line in support of faculty

Why students should support faculty

Tories undermine Status of Women Committee with anti-choice appointee

The Tories under Sheer are continuing Harper's tradition of attacking choice, appointing bigot Rachael Harder

Senator Beyak and government racism

Beyak epitomizes Tory racism, but Trudeau is better only in rhetoric

Teamsters local 419 fight for $15 an hour

Teamsters Local 419: On strike for AT LEAST $15 and Fairness

Toronto airport workers need solidarity to defeat diabolical employer

Join the Toronto Disability Pride March

All out for the Toronto Disability Pride March on Saturday September 23

Victory in Vancouver against the Nazis

Thousands rally to stop anti-muslim, anti-immigrant groups in Vancouver

Thousands of Egyptian textile workers on strike

The Mahalla workers, who helped spark the Egyptian revolution, are on strike again

Disabled people leading the resistance

Inspired by the disability activists in the US? Join Toronto Disability Pride March

BC NDP wavers on Kinder Morgan pipeline

With the NDP wavering, we need to build the September 9 rally to stop Kinder Morgan

Chippewas of the Thames: “This will keep us fighting!”

The Supreme Court sided with oil corporations, but that won't stop the Chippewas and their supporters

Climate justice: join Aamjiwnaang’s fight against Chemical Valley

Join the movement against chemical colonialism

No money for the war machine

We need money for care, not warfare

Hands off Omar Khadr

Bigots are defending the torture of a child soldier, burying the history of Harper's regime and spewing Islamophobia

Parkdale residents enter second month on rent strike, protest at building owner’s home

“we’re paying big rent. They’re making big money. Why can’t we live happy?”

NDP leader John Horgan and Greens leader Andrew Weaver

BC Liberals on the way out, but the fight isn't over

The BC Greens will support the NDP, but they will need pressure from the left

Delegates applaud election of GND as co-spokesperson of QS

Québec solidaire makes historic strides

QS has rejected alliance with the neo-liberal PQ

France: the election and the resistance

With voters rejecting the fascists but also the status quo, an alternative is desperately needed

Senator’s racism: Tories can’t help themselves

Lynn Beyah thinks the tragedy of the residential schools is negative reporting

Fighting hate in the GTA

Islamophobes are fighting the right to prayer space

Québec solidaire gains ground with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

The leader of the student strike has given a boost to Quebec's left alternative party

Liberal budget: privatization, austerity and climate chaos

Trudeau is continuing Harper's healthcare cuts and funding tar sands

Trudeau betrays First Nations children, again

The Liberals are ignoring the Human Rights Tribunal ruling that sided with First Nations children

Unite against Islamophobia rally, Toronto

Rally against Islamophobia shuts down bigots

Dozens of racists tried to rally at City Hall, but hundreds of anti-racists shut them down

Rally in Washington DC against travel ban. Photo by Ted Eytan

Trudeau refuses to take action against racist travel ban

Trump's racist travel ban's have been opposed on both sides of the border.

Court victory for First Nations “60s Scoop” survivors

Despite attempts by Harper and Trudeau to delay the ruling, First Nations won the case

Protect press freedom

Forcing journalists to release their personal information is a threat to the free press

Quebec City terrorism, Islamophobia and solidarity

Trumpism is terrorism

New West United for equality diversity and community

New West organizes against Nazi posters

New Westminster stands up to Nazis

On January 21 inaugurate the resistance

All out January 21!

Climate justice: Aroland and Ginoogaming First Nations call for support

There's no integrity in building pipelines on Indigenous land without consent

Trudeau chooses Kinder Morgan over Indigenous rights and green jobs

We need green jobs, not pipelines

Victory against Muskrat Falls dam

Weeks of occupations, demonstrations and solidarity pushed the government back, for now

Status quo wins debate

Clinton represents the status quo, while Trump pretends to be against it

Trudeau: widespread selfies and hidden imperialism

Trudeau is posing for photos while quietly sending troops to guard mining profits in Africa

Support postal workers

The postal workers need your support

What we wear: it's a woman's right to choose

The Burkini "debate" exposes sexism and Islamophobia

Justice for Abdirahman Abdi

Rallies across Canada call for justice for Abdirahman Abdi

Trudeau Liberals fail to defend civil liberties

Liberals continue Tory attack on civil liberties

ETEA local 11 instructors and supporters in New Westminster

Private college instructors battle corporate greed

Vancouver area instructors fight for a living wage

After Chilcot Report: let US Iraq war resisters stay

The Chilcot report vindicates the anti-war movement, but the Canadian government still refuses to support war resisters

Liberal gun runners

Trudeau has maintained Harper's arms deal, and added secrecy

Inquest says police murdered Jermaine Carby

The inquest acknowledged the racist killing but does not provide structural change

Trudeau: don't deport Mohamed Harkat to torture

The Liberals have signed a protocol against torture, now they need to make this commitment a reality

Québec solidaire local economy tour

Quebecs anti-austerity party is fighting for local economies and a $15 minimum wage

Toronto Library workers: strike threat and community support pushes concessions off the table

Building from their 2012 strike, library workers mobilized their members and supporters to resist austerity

Tell Trudeau: let war resisters stay

Canada should be a refuge from militarism

INAC occupations: solidarity with Attawapiskat

INAC occupations challenged the legacy of colonialism and built solidarity with Black Lives Matter

Solidarity with Attawapiskat

The suicide crisis in Attawapiskat and the inaction by government are both symptoms of ongoing colonialism

Panama papers, Canadian connections

Canada has created tax havens for the 1% while denying a haven for refugees

Mohamed Harkat: Let him stay

Tell the Trudeau government to stop Harper's policies of deporting people to torture

Justice for Berta Cáceres

Indigenous activists are being murdered in Honduras to gain access to their land

Aftermath of Quebec’s Common Front

The Common Front showed the potential of workers action, even if all the gains weren't realized

The real budget deficits

By refusing to tax corporations, Trudeau is using an artificial deficit to falsely claim he is spending lavishly on First Nations and the environment

Hunger strikers and supporters defending Treaty 8 Nation lands

Colonial courts kick Indigenous people off their land, while Trudeau does nothing

The BC Supreme Court issued an injunction to allow BC Hydro to remove protesters from the Site C construction site.

Support Black Lives Matter-Toronto tent city

The tent city continues to challenge police killings and the city's cutting of Afrofest

Liberal sleight of hand

Trudeau uses progressive rhetoric to continue conservative policies

No consent, no pipelines

Trudeau can't keep his promise to respect First Nations and control global warming while promoting tar sands and Bill C-51

Beyoncé and Kendrick: Radical in non-Radical places

Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar put Black liberation centre stage at the Super Bowl and Grammy's

Feel the Bern!

Sanders has created an audience for socialist politics that needs to continue beyond the primaries

Troop trainers are combat troops: stop Trudeau’s escalating war

More Western intervention is the problem, not the solution

Save Quebec daycare

The Quebec Liberals are trying to cut thousands of daycare jobs

Trudeau: stop Harper's war on Iraq and Syria

Three months after promising "real change", the Liberals are continuing Harper's war

Unite with Quebec against pipelines

Calls for "national unity" are used to bash Quebec and support pipelines, but real unity comes through the climate justice movement

Quebec against austerity: what’s next after the Common Front?

Workers are challenging the deal at the ballot box and mobilizing in the streets

Victory for First Nations children: what will Trudeau do?

The Liberals need to respect the Tribunal decision and ensure a range of adequate services

Tell Trudeau: cancel Harper’s Saudi arms deal

Demand Trudeau cancel the arms deal and invest in good green jobs instead of bloody counter-revolution

Labour against climate change

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy is building a movement for a just transition to stop climate change

Credit: David Sassoon/InsideClimate News

After Paris: climate change or system change?

The climate accord is not historic, but the growing climate justice movement is

Quebec general strike: “The most important strike since 1972”

On December 9 half a million workers across Quebec went on strike against austerity

Quebec Common Front: province-wide strike December 9

December 9 will be a mass strike against austerity

Saskatchewan: refugees in, Brad Wall out

People in Saskatchewan rallied against Brad Wall's racist attack on refugees

Quebec’s fight against austerity in education

Students, parents and teachers are uniting against austerity

Quebec students join public sector workers on strike and in the streets

Following mass workers demonstrations last month, tens of thousands of students took to the streets

Prescription for profits: the TPP and pharmaceuticals

The Trans-Pacific Partnership extends corporate control over medicine

Liberals and Indigenous rights: what next?

Mobilizations will be key to maintaining Liberal promises and fighting Liberal pipelines

Leap!

The Leap Manifesto demands are modest, but their implementation requires radical action

Human chain of parents and kids protect Quebec schools

Building teacher/parent/student solidarity is the key to challenging cuts to education

Rallies across the country say “Refugees welcome!”

Rallies from coast to coast reject Harper's scapegoating, and support refugees

Stop the war, open the borders

Harper has blood on his hands, from his imperialism wars abroad and racist attacks on refugees at home

Justice for Andrew Loku! Justice for Jermaine Carby!

After another police murder, join the rally tomorrow to say Black Lives Matter!

Bombing Iraq breeds ISIS

The Iraq War is arming and recruiting for ISIS

Chippewas of the Thames call for solidarity against Line 9

Supports Chippewas of the Thames in defending their land and water from Big Oil

Truth and Reconciliation: what next for real progress?

We need to push the government to implement the TRTC recommendations and build solidarity with Indigenous struggles

First Nation rejects $1 billion offer for LNG port

The Lax Kw’alaams band have prioritized environment and culture

Bombardier: we need mass transit not mass layoffs

Bombardier is laying off workers that could provide climate solutions

Violence against Indigenous women: Tories blame the community

Instead of an inquiry the Tories offer statistics warped by racism

20 years in prison for failed pregnancy

So-called "feticide"laws punish women and pay lip service to children

Harper and Oliver deliver Bay Street’s budget

The Tory "balanced budget" is neither balanced nor an actual budget

Reliance on fossil fuels leads to yet another spill

Oil spill in Burrard inlet shows folly of continued reliance on fossil fuels

Victory for Heiltsuk Nation, support indigenous fisheries

Through blockades and solidarity the Heiltsuk defended their territory

Site C dam: “this project and its impacts far outweigh any benefits.”

The planned Site C dam ignores First Nations' rights to their land and isn't a clean enrgy source.

Yemen: Western-backed war is killing civilians

'Decisive Storm' is decisively bloody

Bill C-51 targets First Nations activists

Bill C-51 further criminalizes indigenous dissent. I can't be amended but must be ended

CSIS, Harper’s hand-picked ambassador implicated in ISIS recruiting

CSIS is implicated in ISIS, which is used as an excuse to further empower CSIS

#RU486now

Despite being safe and effective, Health Canada is delaying the approval of the medical abortion pill RU-486

Halifax plot shows Harper's racist redefinition of terrorism

The Harper government has dismissed white racist terrorist as "misfits"

‘Anti-terrorism’ bill could target activists

The Tories and Liberals want to further erode civil liberties

Corporate puppet Wynne: OPSEU workers say enough

OPSEU workers have a strong strike mandate against Liberal austerity

NASA map of average temperatures in 2014

It’s getting hot in here: 2014 was the warmest year on record

2014 was the warmest year in 135 years of weather records.

Unity vs hypocrisy

The "unity march" was led by the butchers of the Arab Spring

CIA, torture and Canadian complicity

From transfering Afghan detainees to torture, to using solitary confinement as a weapon, Canada is complicit in torture

Convergence 2014 in Vancouver to stop Tar Sands pipelines

First Nations winning against tar sands pipelines

All this year, the First Nations in BC have led the fight to stop the pipelines.

Iraq War Resisters in peril

War resisters in! Harper out!

Victory celebrations on Burnaby mountain

Victory on Burnaby Mountain

Protests lead by Tsleil-waututh First Nation and Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) have won a major victory against the tar sands pipelines.

The West’s ally threatens to behead a pro-democracy activist

Canada arms Saudi Arabia and is ignoring its plan to behead Sheikh Al Nemer

Harper's wars spread violence

We need peace, solidarity, civil liberties, and real support for troops: bring them home and help them heal

New Brunswick sends message to NDP's right-wing populism

By failing to strongly defend environmental and reproductive justice the NDP failed to win a seat

Disabled people take to the streets in Toronto October 4th

Disabled people and their allies are a powerful force that will not be silenced in the name of austerity

Quiz: who said this, Bush or Obama?

Can you tell which bomber of Iraq said the following quotes, Bush or Obama?

Main St in Winnipeg flooded on August 21

Capitalism is a climate disaster

Climate change has a daily impact

Canada's Premiers fiddle with their hats

Premiers fiddle with their hats while planet burns

The most dramatic decision the premiers made at the 55th Annual Premiers’ Conference was to pose holding top hats for the final group photo.

Ukraine, sanctions against Russia and Canadian oil

Canada is using the airline tragedy to impose sanctions on Russia and promote Canadian oil

Grassy Narrows: one First Nation, two big battles

The Supreme Court decisioin against Grassy Narrows is another example of treaty-breaking

Demand Climate Justice at the People's Climate March

From the People’s Social Forum to the People’s Climate March!

People from across North America are organizing for the People's Climate March in New York.

Mass protests turn tide against Israeli terror

Palestinian resistance and solidarity are challenging imperialism

Reproductive Justice: Equal Access Now!

A fundraising campaign and day of action and pushing back the attack on choice

There’s an election coming, let the transit games begin

The TTC is trying to balance the books on the backs of disabled people and workers

From motions to direct action, Line 9 opposition grows

The past week has seen two actions against Line 9, and a ban from Portand, Maine

Save Canada Post

A united campaign to save door-to-door mail could push back Harper's austerity agenda

Feds threaten to destroy Residential School abuse evidence

The Canadian government is trying to hide its genocide, but residential school survivors are speaking out

Victory for Tsilhqot’in and all First Nations

SCC decision gives First Nations “the exclusive right to decide how the land is used, and the right to benefit from those uses.”

Far-right party wins election in India, how will Harper respond?

India joins France in seeing a surge of support for the far-right in reaction to austerity

Iraq: no to ISIS, no to war

After killing a million people, the West is using ISIS crimes as an excuse for more intervention

Stop Harper, stop the pipeline

Despite the approval of Northern Gateway, indigenous-led resistance is growing

Quebec budget: new government brings same old austerity

The Liberals are continuing austerity, but resistance is emerging

Resisting a system in crisis

Come to a weekend-long conference of ideas to change the world

Kahnawake rally against the F.N.E.A. Photo: Katsenhakeron Chad Diabo

First Nations resist Tory 'education' bill

Indigenous resistance stopped the FNEA

Supreme injustice as court upholds secret trials

The Supreme Court has upheld secret trials, threatening Mohamed Harkat with deportation to torture

Saudi Arabia: two activists sentenced to death

The West arms and supports a regime that crucifies activists

Yinka Dene Alliance send formal notice to Harper: No oil pipeline on their land.

The Yinka Dene Alliance has presented its formal reasons to the Canadian government for refusing to allow the Enbridge oil pipeline on their lands.

Ontario Liberals back down from merging social assistance programs

The Liberals's austerity-driven merger of OW and ODSP has been stopped, for now

Wet'suwet'en vow to keep all pipelines off their land

The camp helps resist the proposed pipelines and re-stake their ancestral connection to the land

Powershift conference builds climate justice

This weekend's Powershift conference will bring together the movement for climate justice

Fossil fuel divestment campaigns growing

Fossil fuel divestment camapaigns are expanding the movement to shut down the fossil fuel industry.

Harper's "Fair Elections Act" undermines democracy

Harper's unpopular austerity agenda requires voter suppression

No more stolen sisters!

Harper doesn't want an inquiry to show that violence against First Nations women is rooted in systemic racism, sexism and poverty.

Bahrain: the third anniversary of the revolution

Despite Western-backed repression the Arab Spring in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia continues

Solidarity with Mi’kmaq warriors

Members of the Mi’kmaq Warriors Society are on tour, building the successful resistance and solidarity that stopped fracking in Elsipogtog

Harper's budget: a hazard to your health

"Deficit reduction" is an excuse to attack jobs and services, and a cover for tax cuts and military spending

Kinder-Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline twinning – what it is and why it is a bad idea

Another disasterous pipeline project has been submitted to the National Energy Board.

Quebec LGBTQ activists on the Quebec “secularism” Charter

Religious accommodation is not counterposed to liberation for women or for the queer community

Israel: African migrants face systematic discrimination

Israeli apartheid oppresses indigenous Palestinians and African migrants

Geneva talks: no real solution to the Syrian crisis

The West is ignoring the humanitarian crisis, arming groups and pushing for a "transition" that undermines self-determination

Young vs Harper

Join Neil Young in helping raise funds for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation's legal defense fund

Legal victory in Richtree fight, though struggle continues

Resistance and solidarity has won a partial victory, and must continue

Israel: Prawer Plan postponed

Mass protests have stopped, for now, Israel's plan to displace 40,000 Bedouins

Kim Rivera released from prison, but the struggle for US war resisters in Canada continues

Join Let Them Stay Week, January 12-19, to support war resisters

2014: The year we stop the pipelines!

Build anti-pipeline actions now and build the solidarity for them to win

Northern Gateway pipeline given the go ahead by three people, will be opposed by thousands.

The pipeline is undemocratic, colonial and dangerous, and it can be stopped

Feds lie, withhold proof of Residential School torture

The Canadian government is covering up genocide

Will the nuclear agreement change the West's relations with Iran?

The deal eases sanctions but does not stop Western militarism

More than a hundred communities rally to Defend Our Climate

The climate justice movement is growing

Defend our climate from capitalism

To stop devastating typhoons we need to stop tar sands and the system that produces them

Defend our climate, defend our communities

On November 16th, thousands will mobilize against pipelines, reckless tar sands expansion and runaway climate change

Women to Drive challenges the Western-backed Saudi authorities

As part of the Arab Spring, women are challenging repressive laws in Saudi Arabia

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change leaves no doubt on climate change

The latest report by the The International Panel on Climate Change shows conclusively that climate change is real and getting worse.

Solidarity with Elsipogtog against fracking

Help build solidarity for the indigenous-led resistance to fracking

Sudan: the silent storm

Another wave of anti-austerity protests is sweeping Sudan

Mass campaign frees Tarek and John

The release of Tarek and John is a victory for the causes they represent and the mass campaign that supported them

Tell Harper: demand the release of Tarek and John

Despite Harper's silent complicity, there's a growing campaing demanding the release of Tarek and John

Bahrain: fearless resistance

United protests contradict the common analysis by Western governments that the rebellion in Bahrain is "sectarian" in nature.

Labour leadership supports BC Premier's disastrous natural gas plan

We need to build a partnership between the labour and environmental movements, not the Liberals

Israel continues to demolish Bedouin homes

Israel wants to displace a further 30,000 Bedouins, demolishing their villages.

People with disabilities rising up

In response to the austerity agenda that is ravaging their lives, people with disabilities are rising up.

Libya: oil workers' strikes

Protests continue against the Western-backed Libyan regime.

Idle No More day of action on October 7

Show your solidarity on October 7

Tunisia: ongoing revolution

The Tunisian revolution continues to demand social and economic equality

Hundreds of cities will flood

Rising global temperatures have already "locked-in" sea level changes that will flood hundreds of coastal cities.

Saudi-Russian meeting tries to control Syria's future

Saudi Arabia has offered oil and arms to Russia in exchange for control over Syria

More disasters to come

In the unending rush for profits, the train disaster in Lac-Mégantic will be the first of many.

Support Idle No More: defend Ron Plain

Support Ron Plain, Idle No More, and the right to resist

Without our brains and muscle not a single burger can flip!

Fast food workers strike for high wages and the right to form unions.

More than just dots on a page: the Disability Community and elections

From fake braille to refusing questions on disability issues, the Tories reveal their politics

Putin's homophobic Olympics

Russia, host of the winter Olympics, is launching homophobic attacks to distract from austerity and corruption

Apache Corporation waste water spill kills 42 hectares of boreal forest

Tar Sands flooding: an unreported environmental disaster

Unprecedented flooding in the Tar Sands region of Fort McMurray threatens to heighten an environmental disaster

anti-pipeline rally in Vancouver, photo by Neal Jennings

Kinder Morgan: more pipelines, more resistance

Opposition to Northern Gateway pipeline can spill over to Kinder Morgan

Walking to heal the fossil fuel sickness

No to intervention in Syria

We need to support self-determination for Syria by stopping imperial interference

NB Mi’kmaq and allies resist fracking

Solidarity against fracking

Canada’s intervention in Iran

Sanctions target ordinary people in Iran

Don't trust BC Liberal opposition to Northern Gateway pipeline

BC Liberals' opposition to the Enbridge pipeline is more window dressing than substance.

Iraq provides tragic lessons for Syria about “humanitarian intervention”

Growing sectarian violence in Iraq shows the impact of "humanitarian intervention"

Marriage equality comes under attack

Austerity breeds bigotry in France

Idle No More: sovereignty summer kicks off June 21

On June 21 join a day of peaceful protest and solidarity against Harper and the corporate agenda

QS convention says no to electoral pacts

Report from last month’s Québec solidaire (QS) congrès.

Support QuAIA, Pride and Palestine

Toronto City Council continues trying to ban QuAIA from participating in Pride.

Liberals join Tories in restricting civil liberties

Restricting civil liberties does not make us safe

Hunger strike challenges Guantanamo prison

The gulag of our time continues

Business as usual breaks a scary new climate record

The level of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches new high

Libya: unrest continues

The fight against former Gaddafi regime officials continues

First Nations Human Rights complaint exposes Tory racism

Harper Tories stonewall Human Rights Tribunal inquiry that government withheld funding from First Nations children.

Forced assimilation, abuse and death: residential schools

Tories insult First Nations residential school survivors yet again

Stephen Harper's government cynically sabotages the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Class struggle in Egypt swells after the Revolution

Stikes continue in Egypt as revolutionary demands go unmet

Peaceful protestors confront the Western-backed Saudi regime

Women have always been in the frontline of the revolutionary struggles in Saudi Arabia.

Quebec: la lutte continue

A year after the Quebec student strike, resistance continues against tuition hikes and EI cuts

Palestine: solidarity with Samer Issawi and political prisoners

April 17 was Palestinian Prisoners’ Day

Anti-choice motion defeated

The pro-choice majority outside Parliament exposed and defeated Motion 408 inside Parliament

Another pipeline, another spill: stop Line 9

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

Will NDP lack of clarity come home to roost in Québec?

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

Cyprus protest (photo: Workers Democracy, www.wd-ist.org/node/158)

Cyprus: outrage against austerity

The bank heist in Cyprus shows the desperation and divisions in the 1%

Indigenous sovereignty and solidarity leads fight against Harper agenda

Indigenous resistance is leading the fight against the corporate assault on people and the planet

Rank-and-file solidarity wins strike at Homes First

A victory for the workers and for the clients they serve

Historic protest demands end of Keystone pipeline

February 17 was the largest single climate change protest in US history

Previous Pause Next

1 of 420

Region

You are here

News - Top Stories

News

Haudensaunee land defenders retake 1492 Land Back Lane

Black Lives Matter in the Beaches

Day of Rage Occupies Canada’s Busiest Intersection

Disability and Police Violence in Pandemic Times

Parliamentary Budget Officer exposes looters and thieves

Vancouver protests against police, for a better world

Black Lives Matter in New Westminster

Alberta Conservatives try to outlaw protest

Vancouver rallies against racism and police brutality

Race, Poverty, Class and COVID-19 in Toronto

Delivery workers deserve hazard pay!

Liberals, NDP, exclude international students from emergency fund

Kenney attacks Alberta's rural health care

Support laid off transit workers in BC

The working class shows the way

Viral racism: Being Black is not a pre-existing condition

Liberal cuts made this crisis worse

Ford's LTC emergency measures: fixing the bosses mess

Alberta attacks public service

"The fastest way to stop the spread is to send people home," construction worker says

Pages

Take Action

Featured Event

Events

Recent Videos

Twitter

Search form

Region

You are here

News

News - Top Stories

News

Pages

Take Action

Featured Event

Events

Recent Videos

Twitter