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Western-backed sectarian groups are highjacking the Syrian revolution, and we need to stop further Western intervention

The revolutionary wave that had existed in Syria is now stuck between the brutal Syrian government and the equally brutal...more

February 14 is the 23rd annual memorial march to remember missing and murdered women

Since it was initiated in 1991 by women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Coast Salish Territories, the Women’s Memorial March has...more

Racism is the "secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power"

The recent release of British director Steve McQueen’s movie 12 Years a Slave , based on the true account of...more

Fracking ruins the local and the global environment

Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) is the process of extracting natural gas—also known as shale gas—by drilling into shale rock formations deep...more

The struggle of the 99% can challenge Obama and the rule of the 1%

Response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative, Seattle City Council Tuesday January 28, 2014...more

Tim Hudak wants to destroy unions and lower wages to benefit the 1%

You could drive a truck through the logic and holes in Ontario PC premier candidate Tim Hudak’s million jobs plan...more

BC's planned "clean" LNG industry will be worse than the tar sands

The climate footprint of Alberta’s tar sands is one of the worst of many environmental atrocities committed by Canada’s government...more

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

In December 2013 Kinder-Morgan ended months of speculation, finally submitting a 15,000 page, two metre high application to the National...more

"Secularism" is being used to scapegoat Muslims, ignore systemic sexism, and distract from austerity

The hypocrisy in English Canada about the debate within Quebec over “secularism” has been astounding. On the one hand, Harper’s...more

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

Quebec’s Bill 60, at first known as the “Charter of Values” and now as “A Charter affirming the values of...more