In the same week as 200,000 Quebec students marched against tuition and hundreds of Air Canada workers went on a wildcat strike across the country, the NDP elected ex-Liberal Thomas Mulcair as the new party leader. This marks a further rightward shift in the party, in a quest for power that is increasingly detaching itself from the movements upon which change is based.more
On March 26, 2,000 demonstrated against oil tankers threatening their communities, eco-systems, indigenous self-determination and right to personal health.more
In 1965 postal workers challenged their leadership, divisions between women/women and anglophone/Quebecois and formed the first public sector unions--providing lessons valuable for today.more
Reacting to Austerity and electoral fraud, hundreds of thousands of Russians are overcoming their fear of repression and protesting the regime of Vladimir Putinmore