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By Harold Lavender
Resistance and opposition to events such as the 2010 Olympics doesn’t magically appear. It requires the work of organized movements and communities and dedicated individual activists.
In assessing the possibilities for resistance,...
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By Harold Lavender
Movements opposing the 2010 Winter Olympics appear to be gaining momentum with the much-hyped spectacle only a couple of weeks away. While a campaign of intimidation and harassment by security forces has made Vancouver the front line...
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This is the amended vision statement adopted by a majority at the Jan. 16, 2010
gathering of a new organization of the Left. The Assembly emerged from an earlier
gathering in October 2009. Members of Toronto New Socialists are among those
who have be...
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By Daniel Serge
Strategies of Resistance (2009) collects a series of essays on the Trotskyist movement, covering its history and the challenges facing today’s revolutionaries. Its author, Daniel Bensaid (1946-2010) was one of the chief theoreticians of...
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By Kyle Buott
January 6, 2010
Proroguement: an Affront to Democracy?
Across the country, activists from social movements, unions, and various opposition parties are moving quickly towards a day of action on January 23rd against the proroguement of th...
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By Tyler Shipley
December 4, 2009
On my way home from Tegucigalpa I met Edward Fox, an elections observer sent from Washington to participate in the project of legitimating the June 28th coup and paving the way to a comfortable re-entrenchment of the ...
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By Chris Rigaux
December 4, 2009
On December 2nd, Teamsters union officials ended the strike at CN Rail before the federal government passed the back-to-work legislation it had threatened to use. In typical fashion, the officials called an end to the ...
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Engler, Yves. The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy. Fernwood and RED. 2009.
Reviewed by Murray Cooke [mcooke@yorku.ca]
Multinational corporations pillaging the developing world, a trail of human rights and environmental abuses, repressive reg...
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By David Camfield In a June 13th Toronto Star article entitled "The Silence of the Left" columnist Thomas Walkom asks “Whatever happened to the left?” He goes on to point out that “Capitalism is facing its worst crisis in 70 years, yet the political...
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By Luke Unrah
So the NSNDP won the provincial election. It was landslide win really, over 45% of the vote and 31 out of 52 seats. Some of the districts won by the NDP shocked party members and supporters. Seats like Cumberland North, Colchester-Musquod...
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By Bruce Allen
For years I have been writing articles and talking at a meetings concerning developments in the auto industry in Canada. I have consistently presented a set of arguments built around a longstanding observation that I have made concerning...
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By Anonymous
On May 7, 2009 the Toronto and York Region Labour Council (TYRLC) held a “Stewards’ Assembly.” It was attended by some 1600 shop stewards, officials, staff and some rank and file members of both public and private sector unions. Prom...
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By Luke Unrau
The coming provincial election in Nova Scotia may very well go down in history. It could be the first time the New Democratic Party has formed government in Atlantic Canada. But the cost of forming government may be more than long-time pa...
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By Jim Naylor
The Winnipeg General Strike is a landmark in North America by any measure. From mid-May to late June 1919 – for six weeks – about 35,000 workers – the bulk of Winnipeg’s labour force – walked off the job and risked hunger, black...
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By Yen Chu
The financial crisis has prompted the nationalization of major banks in the United States and in several European countries. The move to nationalize has sent journalists proclaiming the arrival of socialism. “We Are All Socialists Now” w...
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By Gregor Gall
Introduction
The engineering construction workers’ strike has been the most significant instance of workers’ resistance to the recession and its effects so far. Its significance is not just to be found in that it was a strike taking...
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By Nathan RaoOctober 29, 2008In these difficult times, those of us on the radical Left have learned to be grateful for tender mercies. And so it goes with the results of the October 14th federal election. A few bits of good news immediately come into view...
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By Maurice Carr Every election, those of us on the radical left in Canada face the same challenge leftists face around the world. We, for the most part, identify and reject the limitations of what passes for democracy in this country. While a large part o...
