Archives: Popular Struggles
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Leaders Serious About Tackling Low-Wage Work Should Embrace Unions
With little more than a month to go before the next federal election, party leaders have proposed a laundry list of measures to deal with Canada’s growing low-waged workforce.
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Capitalism Is Destroying the Planet
An international declaration of the Trotskyist Fraction-Fourth International on the Global Climate Strike taking place from September 20 to 27.
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Global Climate Strike
We need governments to ACT NOW to lower carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions.
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Would it be crazy to nationalize the Oshawa General Motors plant?
And use it to make electric vehicles for Canada Post?
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UAW Strike, and Green Repurposing
Sam Gindin is interviewed on the UAW’s strike against GM, and the possibilities for the green repurposing of a plant GM is abandoning.
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Striking GM Workers Aren’t Backing Down
Nearly 50,000 UAW members are on strike for the third day. For years, they’ve been hit with plant closings, pay cuts, and two-tier contracts – and they aren’t ready to make concessions.
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Jagmeet Singh Comments on Trudeau Brownface Costume Photo
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh comments on the publication of a photograph that depicts Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau wearing a brownface costume at an “Arabian Nights”-themed party in 2001.
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Green Jobs – Better for All
Ten years ago we bailed GM out, now GM is bailing on Oshawa. There is an alternative, public ownership.
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GM Auto Workers Strike for Power and to Protect Workers
Retired UAW Leader Frank Hammer talks about why the workers struck, what it means for the union movement, and what this battle means.
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New approaches essential to counter Jason Kenney’s planned war on labour
A very large war has been declared on September 3. The target is Alberta’s public-sector workers.
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Why Ottawa should buy the Oshawa General Motors plant, and do it now
Now, with a near 50,000 unionized GM workers in the United States off the job, a walkout that spreads across dozens of factories and parts warehouses, it’s time for another look.
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CUPE education workers ready to defend students’ education services
Canadian Union of Public Employees members have voted in record numbers to deliver a strike mandate of 93 percent in favor of job action, as part of the fight to protect services for students in Ontario schools.
