Archives: Popular Struggles
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Fighting Ford
He will try to frame his campaign along the populist line that Ford Nation has already carved out, namely looking out for the little guy, offering up tax cuts, “stopping the gravy train” in the public sector.
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Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment
The Declaration of Independence of 1776 symbolizes the beginning of the “Indian Wars” and “westward movement” that continued across the continent for another century.
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The History of IWD’s Socialist Roots
In 1909, immigrant women in their teens and 20s began an 11-week strike, or as many historians recall it, “the uprising of the 20,000.”
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How the socialist suffragette fought for working-class women, against empire
From militant suffragette to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after WW II, British Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice.
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Bread and Roses in West Virginia
West Virginia is the second poorest state in the country. West Virginia’s teachers have the 47th lowest salary in the 50 states.
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Kurdish Women call for a global women’s movement
Kurdish women call on women around the world to come together to build a radical movement for women’s liberation.
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14th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
IAW will take place in Toronto from March 7th to 15th. First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar.
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Indefinite strike begins at York University, Toronto
The union’s 3,600 members will now stay out until they negotiate a victory: ‘strike to win’.
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James Laxer on Canadian Social Democracy
In this interview (conducted in April 2014), James Laxer discusses his personal history and involvement in the NDP and the Waffle, the ideological trajectory of social democracy and the continuing relevance of a socialist vision.
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Time To Care Rally 2018
Bill 33, The Time to Care Act, would mandate a minimum average of 4-hours of nursing care and personal support.
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Rethinking anti-imperialism today
Recent developments from the election to Donald Trump to Brexit etc, have been presented as evidence for a broader crisis of ‘globalization’ and a turning point in modern imperialism.
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Climate Agreement calls for Better Transit, not Freeways
The City of Victoria recently sent a letter to Trudeau and Horgan requesting the complete implementation of the Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change promise.