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Parkdale residents enter second month on rent strike, protest at building owner’s home

“we’re paying big rent. They’re making big money. Why can’t we live happy?”

NDP leader John Horgan and Greens leader Andrew Weaver

BC Liberals on the way out, but the fight isn't over

The BC Greens will support the NDP, but they will need pressure from the left

Delegates applaud election of GND as co-spokesperson of QS

Québec solidaire makes historic strides

QS has rejected alliance with the neo-liberal PQ

France: the election and the resistance

With voters rejecting the fascists but also the status quo, an alternative is desperately needed

Senator’s racism: Tories can’t help themselves

Lynn Beyah thinks the tragedy of the residential schools is negative reporting

Fighting hate in the GTA

Islamophobes are fighting the right to prayer space

Québec solidaire gains ground with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

The leader of the student strike has given a boost to Quebec's left alternative party

Liberal budget: privatization, austerity and climate chaos

Trudeau is continuing Harper's healthcare cuts and funding tar sands

Trudeau betrays First Nations children, again

The Liberals are ignoring the Human Rights Tribunal ruling that sided with First Nations children

Unite against Islamophobia rally, Toronto

Rally against Islamophobia shuts down bigots

Dozens of racists tried to rally at City Hall, but hundreds of anti-racists shut them down

Rally in Washington DC against travel ban. Photo by Ted Eytan

Trudeau refuses to take action against racist travel ban

Trump's racist travel ban's have been opposed on both sides of the border.

Court victory for First Nations “60s Scoop” survivors

Despite attempts by Harper and Trudeau to delay the ruling, First Nations won the case

Protect press freedom

Forcing journalists to release their personal information is a threat to the free press

Quebec City terrorism, Islamophobia and solidarity

Trumpism is terrorism

New West United for equality diversity and community

New West organizes against Nazi posters

New Westminster stands up to Nazis

On January 21 inaugurate the resistance

All out January 21!

Climate justice: Aroland and Ginoogaming First Nations call for support

There's no integrity in building pipelines on Indigenous land without consent

Trudeau chooses Kinder Morgan over Indigenous rights and green jobs

We need green jobs, not pipelines

Victory against Muskrat Falls dam

Weeks of occupations, demonstrations and solidarity pushed the government back, for now

Status quo wins debate

Clinton represents the status quo, while Trump pretends to be against it

Trudeau: widespread selfies and hidden imperialism

Trudeau is posing for photos while quietly sending troops to guard mining profits in Africa

Support postal workers

The postal workers need your support

What we wear: it's a woman's right to choose

The Burkini "debate" exposes sexism and Islamophobia

Justice for Abdirahman Abdi

Rallies across Canada call for justice for Abdirahman Abdi

Trudeau Liberals fail to defend civil liberties

Liberals continue Tory attack on civil liberties

ETEA local 11 instructors and supporters in New Westminster

Private college instructors battle corporate greed

Vancouver area instructors fight for a living wage

After Chilcot Report: let US Iraq war resisters stay

The Chilcot report vindicates the anti-war movement, but the Canadian government still refuses to support war resisters

Liberal gun runners

Trudeau has maintained Harper's arms deal, and added secrecy

Inquest says police murdered Jermaine Carby

The inquest acknowledged the racist killing but does not provide structural change

Trudeau: don't deport Mohamed Harkat to torture

The Liberals have signed a protocol against torture, now they need to make this commitment a reality

Québec solidaire local economy tour

Quebecs anti-austerity party is fighting for local economies and a $15 minimum wage

Toronto Library workers: strike threat and community support pushes concessions off the table

Building from their 2012 strike, library workers mobilized their members and supporters to resist austerity

Tell Trudeau: let war resisters stay

Canada should be a refuge from militarism

INAC occupations: solidarity with Attawapiskat

INAC occupations challenged the legacy of colonialism and built solidarity with Black Lives Matter

Solidarity with Attawapiskat

The suicide crisis in Attawapiskat and the inaction by government are both symptoms of ongoing colonialism

Panama papers, Canadian connections

Canada has created tax havens for the 1% while denying a haven for refugees

Mohamed Harkat: Let him stay

Tell the Trudeau government to stop Harper's policies of deporting people to torture

Justice for Berta Cáceres

Indigenous activists are being murdered in Honduras to gain access to their land

Aftermath of Quebec’s Common Front

The Common Front showed the potential of workers action, even if all the gains weren't realized

The real budget deficits

By refusing to tax corporations, Trudeau is using an artificial deficit to falsely claim he is spending lavishly on First Nations and the environment

Hunger strikers and supporters defending Treaty 8 Nation lands

Colonial courts kick Indigenous people off their land, while Trudeau does nothing

The BC Supreme Court issued an injunction to allow BC Hydro to remove protesters from the Site C construction site.

Support Black Lives Matter-Toronto tent city

The tent city continues to challenge police killings and the city's cutting of Afrofest

Liberal sleight of hand

Trudeau uses progressive rhetoric to continue conservative policies

No consent, no pipelines

Trudeau can't keep his promise to respect First Nations and control global warming while promoting tar sands and Bill C-51

Beyoncé and Kendrick: Radical in non-Radical places

Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar put Black liberation centre stage at the Super Bowl and Grammy's

Feel the Bern!

Sanders has created an audience for socialist politics that needs to continue beyond the primaries

Troop trainers are combat troops: stop Trudeau’s escalating war

More Western intervention is the problem, not the solution

Save Quebec daycare

The Quebec Liberals are trying to cut thousands of daycare jobs

Trudeau: stop Harper's war on Iraq and Syria

Three months after promising "real change", the Liberals are continuing Harper's war

Unite with Quebec against pipelines

Calls for "national unity" are used to bash Quebec and support pipelines, but real unity comes through the climate justice movement

Quebec against austerity: what’s next after the Common Front?

Workers are challenging the deal at the ballot box and mobilizing in the streets

Victory for First Nations children: what will Trudeau do?

The Liberals need to respect the Tribunal decision and ensure a range of adequate services

Tell Trudeau: cancel Harper’s Saudi arms deal

Demand Trudeau cancel the arms deal and invest in good green jobs instead of bloody counter-revolution

Labour against climate change

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy is building a movement for a just transition to stop climate change

Credit: David Sassoon/InsideClimate News

After Paris: climate change or system change?

The climate accord is not historic, but the growing climate justice movement is

Quebec general strike: “The most important strike since 1972”

On December 9 half a million workers across Quebec went on strike against austerity

Quebec Common Front: province-wide strike December 9

December 9 will be a mass strike against austerity

Saskatchewan: refugees in, Brad Wall out

People in Saskatchewan rallied against Brad Wall's racist attack on refugees

Quebec’s fight against austerity in education

Students, parents and teachers are uniting against austerity

Quebec students join public sector workers on strike and in the streets

Following mass workers demonstrations last month, tens of thousands of students took to the streets

Prescription for profits: the TPP and pharmaceuticals

The Trans-Pacific Partnership extends corporate control over medicine

Liberals and Indigenous rights: what next?

Mobilizations will be key to maintaining Liberal promises and fighting Liberal pipelines

Leap!

The Leap Manifesto demands are modest, but their implementation requires radical action

Human chain of parents and kids protect Quebec schools

Building teacher/parent/student solidarity is the key to challenging cuts to education

Rallies across the country say “Refugees welcome!”

Rallies from coast to coast reject Harper's scapegoating, and support refugees

Stop the war, open the borders

Harper has blood on his hands, from his imperialism wars abroad and racist attacks on refugees at home

Justice for Andrew Loku! Justice for Jermaine Carby!

After another police murder, join the rally tomorrow to say Black Lives Matter!

Bombing Iraq breeds ISIS

The Iraq War is arming and recruiting for ISIS

Chippewas of the Thames call for solidarity against Line 9

Supports Chippewas of the Thames in defending their land and water from Big Oil

Truth and Reconciliation: what next for real progress?

We need to push the government to implement the TRTC recommendations and build solidarity with Indigenous struggles

First Nation rejects $1 billion offer for LNG port

The Lax Kw’alaams band have prioritized environment and culture

Bombardier: we need mass transit not mass layoffs

Bombardier is laying off workers that could provide climate solutions

Violence against Indigenous women: Tories blame the community

Instead of an inquiry the Tories offer statistics warped by racism

20 years in prison for failed pregnancy

So-called "feticide"laws punish women and pay lip service to children

Harper and Oliver deliver Bay Street’s budget

The Tory "balanced budget" is neither balanced nor an actual budget

Reliance on fossil fuels leads to yet another spill

Oil spill in Burrard inlet shows folly of continued reliance on fossil fuels

Victory for Heiltsuk Nation, support indigenous fisheries

Through blockades and solidarity the Heiltsuk defended their territory

Site C dam: “this project and its impacts far outweigh any benefits.”

The planned Site C dam ignores First Nations' rights to their land and isn't a clean enrgy source.

Yemen: Western-backed war is killing civilians

'Decisive Storm' is decisively bloody

Bill C-51 targets First Nations activists

Bill C-51 further criminalizes indigenous dissent. I can't be amended but must be ended

CSIS, Harper’s hand-picked ambassador implicated in ISIS recruiting

CSIS is implicated in ISIS, which is used as an excuse to further empower CSIS

#RU486now

Despite being safe and effective, Health Canada is delaying the approval of the medical abortion pill RU-486

Halifax plot shows Harper's racist redefinition of terrorism

The Harper government has dismissed white racist terrorist as "misfits"

‘Anti-terrorism’ bill could target activists

The Tories and Liberals want to further erode civil liberties

Corporate puppet Wynne: OPSEU workers say enough

OPSEU workers have a strong strike mandate against Liberal austerity

NASA map of average temperatures in 2014

It’s getting hot in here: 2014 was the warmest year on record

2014 was the warmest year in 135 years of weather records.

Unity vs hypocrisy

The "unity march" was led by the butchers of the Arab Spring

CIA, torture and Canadian complicity

From transfering Afghan detainees to torture, to using solitary confinement as a weapon, Canada is complicit in torture

Convergence 2014 in Vancouver to stop Tar Sands pipelines

First Nations winning against tar sands pipelines

All this year, the First Nations in BC have led the fight to stop the pipelines.

Iraq War Resisters in peril

War resisters in! Harper out!

Victory celebrations on Burnaby mountain

Victory on Burnaby Mountain

Protests lead by Tsleil-waututh First Nation and Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) have won a major victory against the tar sands pipelines.

New Brunswick repeals anti-choice Regulation 84-20

The partial victory will encourage the reproductive justice movement to continue challenging barriers

Iraq: ‘Operation Impact’ targets Canadian opinion

Harper is using the Iraq war to rehabilitate militarism and pay lip service to veterans

Part-time faculty crisis at Seneca College

Join the info pickets and sign the petition to stop the union busting

The West’s ally threatens to behead a pro-democracy activist

Canada arms Saudi Arabia and is ignoring its plan to behead Sheikh Al Nemer

Harper's wars spread violence

We need peace, solidarity, civil liberties, and real support for troops: bring them home and help them heal

New Brunswick sends message to NDP's right-wing populism

By failing to strongly defend environmental and reproductive justice the NDP failed to win a seat

Disabled people take to the streets in Toronto October 4th

Disabled people and their allies are a powerful force that will not be silenced in the name of austerity

Quiz: who said this, Bush or Obama?

Can you tell which bomber of Iraq said the following quotes, Bush or Obama?

Main St in Winnipeg flooded on August 21

Capitalism is a climate disaster

Climate change has a daily impact

Canada's Premiers fiddle with their hats

Premiers fiddle with their hats while planet burns

The most dramatic decision the premiers made at the 55th Annual Premiers’ Conference was to pose holding top hats for the final group photo.

Ukraine, sanctions against Russia and Canadian oil

Canada is using the airline tragedy to impose sanctions on Russia and promote Canadian oil

Grassy Narrows: one First Nation, two big battles

The Supreme Court decisioin against Grassy Narrows is another example of treaty-breaking

Demand Climate Justice at the People's Climate March

From the People’s Social Forum to the People’s Climate March!

People from across North America are organizing for the People's Climate March in New York.

Mass protests turn tide against Israeli terror

Palestinian resistance and solidarity are challenging imperialism

Reproductive Justice: Equal Access Now!

A fundraising campaign and day of action and pushing back the attack on choice

There’s an election coming, let the transit games begin

The TTC is trying to balance the books on the backs of disabled people and workers

From motions to direct action, Line 9 opposition grows

The past week has seen two actions against Line 9, and a ban from Portand, Maine

Save Canada Post

A united campaign to save door-to-door mail could push back Harper's austerity agenda

Feds threaten to destroy Residential School abuse evidence

The Canadian government is trying to hide its genocide, but residential school survivors are speaking out

Victory for Tsilhqot’in and all First Nations

SCC decision gives First Nations “the exclusive right to decide how the land is used, and the right to benefit from those uses.”

Far-right party wins election in India, how will Harper respond?

India joins France in seeing a surge of support for the far-right in reaction to austerity

Iraq: no to ISIS, no to war

After killing a million people, the West is using ISIS crimes as an excuse for more intervention

Stop Harper, stop the pipeline

Despite the approval of Northern Gateway, indigenous-led resistance is growing

Quebec budget: new government brings same old austerity

The Liberals are continuing austerity, but resistance is emerging

Resisting a system in crisis

Come to a weekend-long conference of ideas to change the world

Kahnawake rally against the F.N.E.A. Photo: Katsenhakeron Chad Diabo

First Nations resist Tory 'education' bill

Indigenous resistance stopped the FNEA

Supreme injustice as court upholds secret trials

The Supreme Court has upheld secret trials, threatening Mohamed Harkat with deportation to torture

Saudi Arabia: two activists sentenced to death

The West arms and supports a regime that crucifies activists

Yinka Dene Alliance send formal notice to Harper: No oil pipeline on their land.

The Yinka Dene Alliance has presented its formal reasons to the Canadian government for refusing to allow the Enbridge oil pipeline on their lands.

Ontario Liberals back down from merging social assistance programs

The Liberals's austerity-driven merger of OW and ODSP has been stopped, for now

Wet'suwet'en vow to keep all pipelines off their land

The camp helps resist the proposed pipelines and re-stake their ancestral connection to the land

Powershift conference builds climate justice

This weekend's Powershift conference will bring together the movement for climate justice

Fossil fuel divestment campaigns growing

Fossil fuel divestment camapaigns are expanding the movement to shut down the fossil fuel industry.

Harper's "Fair Elections Act" undermines democracy

Harper's unpopular austerity agenda requires voter suppression

No more stolen sisters!

Harper doesn't want an inquiry to show that violence against First Nations women is rooted in systemic racism, sexism and poverty.

Bahrain: the third anniversary of the revolution

Despite Western-backed repression the Arab Spring in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia continues

Solidarity with Mi’kmaq warriors

Members of the Mi’kmaq Warriors Society are on tour, building the successful resistance and solidarity that stopped fracking in Elsipogtog

Harper's budget: a hazard to your health

"Deficit reduction" is an excuse to attack jobs and services, and a cover for tax cuts and military spending

Kinder-Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline twinning – what it is and why it is a bad idea

Another disasterous pipeline project has been submitted to the National Energy Board.

Quebec LGBTQ activists on the Quebec “secularism” Charter

Religious accommodation is not counterposed to liberation for women or for the queer community

Israel: African migrants face systematic discrimination

Israeli apartheid oppresses indigenous Palestinians and African migrants

Geneva talks: no real solution to the Syrian crisis

The West is ignoring the humanitarian crisis, arming groups and pushing for a "transition" that undermines self-determination

Young vs Harper

Join Neil Young in helping raise funds for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation's legal defense fund

Legal victory in Richtree fight, though struggle continues

Resistance and solidarity has won a partial victory, and must continue

Israel: Prawer Plan postponed

Mass protests have stopped, for now, Israel's plan to displace 40,000 Bedouins

Kim Rivera released from prison, but the struggle for US war resisters in Canada continues

Join Let Them Stay Week, January 12-19, to support war resisters

2014: The year we stop the pipelines!

Build anti-pipeline actions now and build the solidarity for them to win

Northern Gateway pipeline given the go ahead by three people, will be opposed by thousands.

The pipeline is undemocratic, colonial and dangerous, and it can be stopped

Feds lie, withhold proof of Residential School torture

The Canadian government is covering up genocide

Will the nuclear agreement change the West's relations with Iran?

The deal eases sanctions but does not stop Western militarism

More than a hundred communities rally to Defend Our Climate

The climate justice movement is growing

Defend our climate from capitalism

To stop devastating typhoons we need to stop tar sands and the system that produces them

Defend our climate, defend our communities

On November 16th, thousands will mobilize against pipelines, reckless tar sands expansion and runaway climate change

Women to Drive challenges the Western-backed Saudi authorities

As part of the Arab Spring, women are challenging repressive laws in Saudi Arabia

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change leaves no doubt on climate change

The latest report by the The International Panel on Climate Change shows conclusively that climate change is real and getting worse.

Solidarity with Elsipogtog against fracking

Help build solidarity for the indigenous-led resistance to fracking

Sudan: the silent storm

Another wave of anti-austerity protests is sweeping Sudan

Mass campaign frees Tarek and John

The release of Tarek and John is a victory for the causes they represent and the mass campaign that supported them

Tell Harper: demand the release of Tarek and John

Despite Harper's silent complicity, there's a growing campaing demanding the release of Tarek and John

Bahrain: fearless resistance

United protests contradict the common analysis by Western governments that the rebellion in Bahrain is "sectarian" in nature.

Labour leadership supports BC Premier's disastrous natural gas plan

We need to build a partnership between the labour and environmental movements, not the Liberals

Israel continues to demolish Bedouin homes

Israel wants to displace a further 30,000 Bedouins, demolishing their villages.

People with disabilities rising up

In response to the austerity agenda that is ravaging their lives, people with disabilities are rising up.

Libya: oil workers' strikes

Protests continue against the Western-backed Libyan regime.

Idle No More day of action on October 7

Show your solidarity on October 7

Tunisia: ongoing revolution

The Tunisian revolution continues to demand social and economic equality

Hundreds of cities will flood

Rising global temperatures have already "locked-in" sea level changes that will flood hundreds of coastal cities.

Saudi-Russian meeting tries to control Syria's future

Saudi Arabia has offered oil and arms to Russia in exchange for control over Syria

More disasters to come

In the unending rush for profits, the train disaster in Lac-Mégantic will be the first of many.

Support Idle No More: defend Ron Plain

Support Ron Plain, Idle No More, and the right to resist

Without our brains and muscle not a single burger can flip!

Fast food workers strike for high wages and the right to form unions.

More than just dots on a page: the Disability Community and elections

From fake braille to refusing questions on disability issues, the Tories reveal their politics

Putin's homophobic Olympics

Russia, host of the winter Olympics, is launching homophobic attacks to distract from austerity and corruption

Apache Corporation waste water spill kills 42 hectares of boreal forest

Tar Sands flooding: an unreported environmental disaster

Unprecedented flooding in the Tar Sands region of Fort McMurray threatens to heighten an environmental disaster

anti-pipeline rally in Vancouver, photo by Neal Jennings

Kinder Morgan: more pipelines, more resistance

Opposition to Northern Gateway pipeline can spill over to Kinder Morgan

Walking to heal the fossil fuel sickness

No to intervention in Syria

We need to support self-determination for Syria by stopping imperial interference

NB Mi’kmaq and allies resist fracking

Solidarity against fracking

Canada’s intervention in Iran

Sanctions target ordinary people in Iran

Don't trust BC Liberal opposition to Northern Gateway pipeline

BC Liberals' opposition to the Enbridge pipeline is more window dressing than substance.

Iraq provides tragic lessons for Syria about “humanitarian intervention”

Growing sectarian violence in Iraq shows the impact of "humanitarian intervention"

Marriage equality comes under attack

Austerity breeds bigotry in France

Idle No More: sovereignty summer kicks off June 21

On June 21 join a day of peaceful protest and solidarity against Harper and the corporate agenda

QS convention says no to electoral pacts

Report from last month’s Québec solidaire (QS) congrès.

Support QuAIA, Pride and Palestine

Toronto City Council continues trying to ban QuAIA from participating in Pride.

Liberals join Tories in restricting civil liberties

Restricting civil liberties does not make us safe

Hunger strike challenges Guantanamo prison

The gulag of our time continues

Business as usual breaks a scary new climate record

The level of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches new high

Libya: unrest continues

The fight against former Gaddafi regime officials continues

First Nations Human Rights complaint exposes Tory racism

Harper Tories stonewall Human Rights Tribunal inquiry that government withheld funding from First Nations children.

Forced assimilation, abuse and death: residential schools

Tories insult First Nations residential school survivors yet again

Stephen Harper's government cynically sabotages the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Class struggle in Egypt swells after the Revolution

Stikes continue in Egypt as revolutionary demands go unmet

Peaceful protestors confront the Western-backed Saudi regime

Women have always been in the frontline of the revolutionary struggles in Saudi Arabia.

Quebec: la lutte continue

A year after the Quebec student strike, resistance continues against tuition hikes and EI cuts

Palestine: solidarity with Samer Issawi and political prisoners

April 17 was Palestinian Prisoners’ Day

Anti-choice motion defeated

The pro-choice majority outside Parliament exposed and defeated Motion 408 inside Parliament

Another pipeline, another spill: stop Line 9

"I came out and smelled it. Then I saw it coming down the street.”

Will NDP lack of clarity come home to roost in Québec?

By not supporting self-determination, the NDP's "Unity Act" undermines a united fightback in Quebec and English Canada

Cyprus protest (photo: Workers Democracy, www.wd-ist.org/node/158)

Cyprus: outrage against austerity

The bank heist in Cyprus shows the desperation and divisions in the 1%

Indigenous sovereignty and solidarity leads fight against Harper agenda

Indigenous resistance is leading the fight against the corporate assault on people and the planet

Rank-and-file solidarity wins strike at Homes First

A victory for the workers and for the clients they serve

Historic protest demands end of Keystone pipeline

February 17 was the largest single climate change protest in US history

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