Archives: Popular Struggles
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May Day’s Meaning Today
May Day came to Canada in 1906 when about a thousand Montreal workers paraded and heard speakers in English, French, Russian, and Italian in rented halls.
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A Setback for Auto Workers’ Solidarity
UAW leadership sold the membership on the need to find concessions that limited the pain.
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Garment Workers Share What It’s Really Like to Make Your Clothes
It always feels special when our clothing is labeled “handmade,” whether we make it ourselves or it’s packaged that way.
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Beyond “elbows up” — Election post-mortem
A closer look, though, shows that a quiet earthquake took place in Canadian politics on April 28.
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No Israeli Flag Raising in Our City Hall!
The City of Ottawa is, once again, planning to raise the Israeli flag this May.
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The Dialectic Lurking Behind the Brutality
Ieva Jusionyte digs into Greg Grandin’s: America, América: A New History of the New World.
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What Carney’s win means for environment and climate issues in Canada
Making several references to deteriorating Canada-US relations, the freshly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney said: we are going to build — build, baby, build.
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Can the Green Transition Work for Workers?
Robert Pollin presents a compelling case for a global Green New Deal that fights climate change without sacrificing jobs.
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Even if Pierre Poilievre loses the election, he will have jolted Canada rightward
This fake firebrand was on the verge of victory. If Mark Carney wins, he will govern in Poilievre’s shadow.
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Will Canada’s next prime minister support Indigenous Rights and conservation projects?
Here’s what the federal election could mean for conservation, resource projects and costly legal battles over the duty to consult.
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Justice for Garvin Yapp
Garvin Yapp was a Jamaican migrant worker who worked in Canadian fields for 34 years. He was tragically killed in a workplace accident on August 14, 2022.
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To the Vatican with Red Flags
In 2014, Pope Francis met representatives of the European Left, along with Franz Kronreif of the Christian Focolare movement.