On November 15, 55,000 postal workers walked off the job. After a year of failed negotiations with Canada Post, the two sides are still far apart. Key Demands The higher cost of living has had a real impact on postal workers, who haven’t seen an increase in several years. One worker, Bryan, said that being […]
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Trump (And Trumpism) Can Be Defeated Kelly Bellin For many of us, horror at the coming Trump administration is only matched with horror that more than 74 million Americans voted for him. Going into public since November 6th poses the constant question: who around me just voted for an extremely high-profile rapist? How many of […]
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Solidarity with Longshore The Federal Labour Minister, MacKinnon, has imposed compulsory arbitration on the disputes that have closed the ports along BC’s coast and in Montréal. The ports were closed after the employers locked out the workforce. Canada’s three busiest cargo ports, Vancouver, Montréal and Prince Rupert, were shut. With MacKinnon’s action on November 12, […]
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The war in Ukraine has not received as much attention in the capitalist media in the West as it did previously. In one sense, this is understandable given developments in the Middle East. This includes the horrific genocidal war unleashed by the Israeli state in Gaza and the escalating conflict in the region, with Israeli […]
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Mass Protests & Working-Class Action Can The US election results confirm that a smile, nice words and middle-of-the-road policies are no answer to anger and alienation. Between 2020 and 2022, the controlled the Presidency, the House and the Senate but did little with this. If they had enacted: a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for all […]
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Nine days after the polls closed on Saturday, October 19, the outcome of BC’s election is becoming clearer. The BC Conservatives, which only four years ago got less than two percent of the vote and elected no one, with many candidates who had outlandish and bizarre views, nearly won. They were running against the NDP […]
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Last April 1st, the Alberta-based Western Standard ran a story with the headline: “Federal budget commits funding to convert one lane of Trans-Canada Highway for bicycles.” The story continued to relate how the Liberal budget had set aside $100 billion to build bike lanes along the entire length of the Trans-Canada. Hard to believe, eh? […]
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Over a year of incessant mass atrocities and the Government of Death of Netanyahu and the far-right is galloping, full of hubris, into the regional military escalation it initiated. Domestically, it does so under the guise of “security” demagoguery designed to disguise the political purpose of deploying the Israeli war machine. Along with the continuation […]
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A wave of youth-led protests has been sweeping Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, ushering in a new era of political struggle. We’re seeing a new generation organize protests, many for the first time in their lives, and draw in people of all ages alongside them. Young people also led demonstrations earlier this year and last in […]
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