June 2007: New York, NY Rank-and-file teachers are aghast to see the United Federation of Teachers supporting a charter school company. Backroom deals earn an F when it comes to standing up for union members’ rights and quality education for all. July 2007: California Grocery workers improve healthcare and two-tier wage language in contract, but… Read more »
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Aboriginal title at risk in British Columbia
Almost all of British Columbia in Canada is unceded indigenous territory. Its land and resources have not been given up by treaty, but occupied and stolen. In recent decades, a growing sovereignty movement, especially among young people, has offered fierce resistance to the continued theft and corporate development that threatens Native peoples’ means of survival… Read more »
Hope for war resisters looking to Canada
Today, it’s common knowledge that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was all about profit and power. However, many Americans – including military recruits – were tricked into initially accepting the war with bait-and-switch sales rhetoric. As war resister and military recruit Ryan Johnson put it, “When I signed up … I was thinking there were… Read more »
Labor Weather Report: a glance at how some workers and their unions are faring in the class struggle
April 2008: Toronto transit strike Over a weekend, transit workers walk out to hold the line on contracting out and seniority issues. Labor-backed New Democratic Party joins Liberals to pass a law forcing them back to work by Monday’s commute. April 2008: Union foreign policy In South Africa, unionists refuse to unload a ship full… Read more »
Labor Weather Report: a glance at how some workers and their unions are faring in the class struggle
May 2008: Burger King whipped Another militant public pressure campaign by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers grills fast food titan and wins better pay and conditions for tomato pickers. Now the fight is to implement the deal over growers’ objections. June 2008: Blockading GM Canadian auto workers blockade GM’s headquarters for 12 days to protest… Read more »
Why did voters spurn Canada’s labor party?
For the past eight years, the right-wing, Bush-like Liberal Party has held power in the province of British Columbia. It is roundly disliked for its anti-labor practices and tight-fisted social policies. How is it possible that Canada’s labor party, the New Democratic Party (NDP), couldn’t defeat the Liberals and gain a majority in the May… Read more »
Quebec students ignite tuition battle
Over the past several months, Quebec has seen the rise of one of the largest protest movements in its history, with a mass student strike against a government-imposed tuition hike. This movement continues the global student revolt of the last half dozen years, when students from Chile to Montreal and California to Greece have stood… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial: Quebec student victory against the odds
A SUSTAINED AND MIGHTY student strike movement in Quebec has brought down a provincial government. Running on a law-and-order platform, the defeated Premier Jean Charest and his party specifically targeted the students’ militant campaign against massive tuition hikes. Not only did the right-of-center Liberal Party lose after nine years in power, Charest lost his seat… Read more »
Len Stephan, 1936-2014
A music and math aficionado, lover of nature and computers, and committed environmentalist, Len Stephan passed away in September, a few weeks shy of his 78th birthday, after a valiant battle with cancer. Born in Regina, Canada on October 12, 1936 to socialist parents, he moved to Vancouver, B.C. “as a tot” as his daughter… Read more »
“No more stolen sisters” — Canadian First Nations demand action on missing and murdered women
“Even though the grave has silenced my granddaughter’s voice, I will continue to speak for her,” vows Renee Hess of Helyna Rivera, a Mohawk woman who was murdered in the U.S.-Canada border city of Buffalo, N.Y. on Aug. 10, 2011. Hess was one of many family and community members at the 2015 Strawberry Ceremony, an… Read more »
