The dramatic actions of warfare this weekend — with over one thousand dead so far — in Israel and the Gaza Strip has shaken the world. This could be the beginning of further instability and expanded war. Here is a first translated statement from the Secretariat of Socialist Struggle (ISA in Israel-Palestine) published originally in […]
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Allie Pev, Métis Cree, Treaty 6, is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. Canada is stolen land. Canada continues to steal Indigenous lives. One of the most gruesome of Canada’s crimes against Indigenous peoples has been the theft of Indigenous children. Over 1,000 unmarked graves on residential school grounds have been recovered so far; this […]
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A typical Canada Day will see most of the country awash with red and white. This year it was more covered in a bright and distinct streak of Indigenous orange. While July 1 marks the independence from the British colonial master, for Indigenous people colonialism did not end – it was intensified after 1867. This […]
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Not even COVID stopped the determined actions of Indigenous land defenders. They carried out some of the biggest actions that Canada has ever seen in response to the further invasions of sovereign Indigenous territories by the Canadian state. Peaceful blockades and rallies took place on rail lines, parliament grounds, various cities’ intersections and at government […]
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The harrowing last minutes of Joyce Echaquan, which she livestreamed in the Joliette hospital in Québec, has again shone a cruel light on the institutional racism that the Canadian state is built on. The Premier of Québec, Legault, has again denied there is systemic racism in Québec, ignoring the crystal clear evidence. A year ago […]
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This past week, the head of the RCMP finally admitted that there was institutional racism in the force, just days after claiming “we don’t have systemic racism,” in spite of years of evidence to the contrary. The last few weeks alone have shown overwhelming proof of the RCMP’s systematic assault on Canadian racial minorities: the […]
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Around the world people have watched in horror at the unfolding violence perpetrated by the Israeli state against Palestinian protesters in Gaza. Sixty were killed on 14 May alone, during protests against the moving of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The following day, 15 May, marked the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) – the forcing […]
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Brett Forester is a status Anishinabe member of the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation. By Brett Forester is a status Anishinabe member of the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation living Ottawa. We thank him for allowing Socialist Alternative to publish this article, which first appeared on thebrassmonk.com. Across Canada people took to the […]
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