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Hush-hush at Hockey Canada

November 25, 2022Chris Fofonoff

Women must be safe in and around sports Women in hockey have made major strides forward in the past decade. Canada’s national women’s and girls’ teams continue to regularly win international trophies, the percentage of girls enrolling in youth hockey is increasing along with other sports, and women have broken through into the ranks of […]

A World Cup Built on Misery, Oppression and Exploitation

November 17, 2022Stéphane Delcros

Stéphane Delcros is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). FIFA and its allies are responsible — they must get out of our sport With horrible working conditions, wages and living conditions for migrant workers; but also a complete denial of rights for women, for LGBTQIA+ people — […]

Hockey and Big Business

April 23, 2021Chris Fofonoff

The Vancouver Canucks finally took to their home ice and notched a 3-2 overtime win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in an empty Rogers Arena on April 18. In spite of the win, the Canucks were mostly on the back foot and looked somewhat sluggish in their first National Hockey League game in 25 days. […]

“European Super League” — Stop the People’s Game Becoming the Princes’ Game

April 20, 2021Matt Waine

Matt Waine is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The news that 12 top European football clubs are on course to establish a new ‘European Super League’ has been met with rage by football fans across Europe. The so-called “Big Six” in the English Premier League (Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal, […]

BLM Takes the Court: Sports on Strike

September 4, 2020Bruce Castonguay

Bruce Castonguay is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. On August 26, exactly four years since Colin Kaepernick began his peaceful protests of systemic racism and injustice in the United States, the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks set in motion a political strike that will have an important impact on the movement for black lives […]

The Olympics, big business and dictatorship

August 5, 2016Vincent Kolo

Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. A short history of the Olympics: Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info A short history of the Olympics: Rather than the Olympic movement’s self-professed ideals of ‘internationalism’ and ‘fair play’, the Games are about two at first sight contradictory forces: nationalistic flag-waving and capitalist globalisation The Rio Olympics kicks off this week. […]