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Over the past year, thousands of workers in factories across Mexico producing goods for multinational corporations from GM to 3M, have joined or formed independent unions, displacing the old pro-employer … Keep reading »

Benjamin Netanyahu returned to the Israeli prime minister’s office in November, backed by a coalition of religious and far-right ethno-nationalist parties. Since then, clashes between Israeli armed forces and Palestinians … Keep reading »

We are in the midst of a class war. That’s not unusual. There is always class war in capitalism – although sometimes it is hidden and sometimes there is the … Keep reading »

Ottawa faces a real risk of more cuts to bus service after a recently announced budget shortfall. This was, unfortunately, entirely self inflicted. The mayor left a $39-million hole in … Keep reading »

The IMF mission is currently in Pakistan on a 10-day visit to discuss the stalled ninth review of the country’s current funding programme. The loan talks were restarted after the … Keep reading »

Palestinian trade unions and professional syndicates issue a global call for solidarity with the Palestinian-led Anti-Apartheid Movement. Keep reading »

In 2007, youth and gun violence were hot topics in Toronto with the death of 15-year-old grade nine student Jordan Manners on May 23 at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, a … Keep reading »

Less than six months into their term in office Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC majority have made clear their vision for Vancouver: more police, less justice. More inequality, less … Keep reading »

There have now been four editions of From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023), the first dating back to 1985, and it … Keep reading »

On March 16, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced – during his visit to Niger – that the United States government will provide $150-million in aid to the … Keep reading »

In recent radio interviews, Wole Soyinka, the 88-year old Nobel literature prize recipient from Nigeria, spoke of a “world gone haywire,” about the human world completely transformed in the way … Keep reading »

After years of rapprochement, Germany’s climate and labour movement are jointly going on strike to demand socio-ecological public infrastructure. Keep reading »