Labour News
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Written by Maarten Vanheuverswyn -- www.marxist.com
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Friday, 11 August 2006 11:23 |
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British airports were in a state of chaos yesterday after it was revealed that a terrorist plot had been foiled. Twenty-four people have been arrested on allegations of planning to blow up ten aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean using liquid explosives carried in soft-drink bottles, and detonators disguised as electronic equipment. The gutter press was keen to pick up on the British police's declaration that the explosions could have caused "mass murder on an unimaginable scale". |
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Written by Julian Benson
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Thursday, 03 August 2006 01:00 |
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Fightback's Julian Benson recently spoke with the CAW's Willie Lambert. Lambert is a rank-and-file transit worker from Oakville, Ontario. He is running against Buzz Hargrove for the leadership of the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada’s largest private sector union. In recent years, Buzz Hargrove’s leadership has become synonymous with the idea of “strategic voting” and “lesser evil politics”. Many CAW members feel that the direction that the Hargrove administration is taking the union is one that leads further down the road of defeatism and concessions to the bosses. |
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Written by Fightback
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 22:48 |
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The situation in Mexico is approaching a critical point. As hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets to protest the results of the recent election, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has now laid formal charges of electoral fraud against the Mexican state. While the bourgeois media, both in Mexico and internationally, tries to denounce the claims of fraud, the evidence against the State continues to pile up. |
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Written by Camilo Cahis
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Sunday, 09 July 2006 20:34 |
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In the past year we have seen the beginning of a mass mobilization of workers and youth against imperialist intervention in Venezuela, and now, Bolivia. In the United States, over 400 people gathered to create the Venezuela Solidarity Network and here in Canada, nearly a dozen labour councils and labour federations, including the Ontario Federation of Labour, have endorsed the Hands Off Venezuela campaign. Much of the mobilization has been with the US in mind, but we must be prepared for the real possibility of Canada playing a lead role in an intervention in Latin America. |
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Written by Cora James
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Friday, 07 July 2006 11:29 |
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On 31 May, high school students took to the streets in Chile to peacefully protest the public education system. 500,000 students marched through the streets of Santiago to demand safer and cleaner schools, free bus fare, an end to university entrance examination fees, and a new curriculum. Students were also upset about a law passed by Augusto Pinochet that put municipalities in charge of education and therefore led to a widening gap between the quality of education of rich and poor areas of Chile. |
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Written by Mike Palecek
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Thursday, 06 July 2006 11:11 |
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Stop Press! As we go to print the BC Teachers’ Federation has just reached a settlement with the government. The deal appears to be a compromise with the teachers receiving a 16% wage increase over five years. Such a lengthy contract may not be the best deal for teachers, but whether or not it is ratified by the membership remains to be seen. The vote is not until September, so BCTF members will have an entire summer to consider it. Despite the recent developments, we think it is appropriate to print the original article as the general perspectives remain the same. |
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Written by Yossi Schwartz -- www.marxist.com
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Monday, 05 June 2006 12:03 |
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Calls for boycotting Israeli academics and universities that do not disassociate themselves from the oppression of the Palestinian people have been growing in several unions internationally, including CUPE Ontario's decision to boycott Israeli goods. How does this connect with the class struggle in Israel? Yossi Schwartz in Israel comments. |
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 06:22 |
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In the early morning of 21st April, officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) attacked a housing development that had been taken over by Mohawk protestors, arresting at least 16. This is just the latest in a long series of attacks by the Canadian state against Native peoples who are tired of nearly five centuries of brutal oppression. |
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 06:12 |
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Throughout our school careers, young people are told repeatedly that we are not to expect the same job security, lifestyle, or even the same living conditions that our parents’ generation enjoyed – as if this constant reminder vindicates the last generation of all wrong doing and justifies worsening conditions. What lessons can Canadian students and youth take from the victory of the French student movement? |
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 06:06 |
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No longer afraid of "la migra" (the INS), and feeling the strength and solidarity of their numbers, the sleeping giant of the immigrants' rights movement has begun to stir on a grand scale. Over the course of the last few weeks, this has become the most important debate in the United States. |
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