Despite the fact that a majority of Americans have believed for decades that abortion should be legal in most cases, the “democratic” Texas state government has once again attacked the reproductive rights of a majority of the population. The latest in a string of anti-abortion laws in Texas bans the practice once a heartbeat is detectable, when the fetus […]

According to a CBC poll, 32 per cent of Canadians believe the environment is the most important issue in this election, higher than both the economy and COVID-19. It is not hard to understand why. From the wildfires that have raged across Canada and the world to the cataclysmic Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) […]

More than 450 people braved the rain and wind yesterday, September 6, for the anti-capitalist Labour Day demonstration in Montreal. This new tradition was started by La Riposte syndicale together with the STTIC-CSN last year, and we are proud to have been among the main organizers of this second edition. While about 20 organizations and […]

Last year, the STTIC-CSN and La Riposte syndicale launched the initiative of organizing an anti-capitalist union demonstration on Labour Day to revive the fighting traditions of the Quebec labour movement. More than 20 unions and organizations endorsed the event and participated. This year, some 30 organizations and unions will march on September 6! A year […]

Alberta Health Services (AHS) has informed the United Nurses of Alberta (UNA) that it is invoking the emergency measures clause in their collective agreement to address staffing shortages. These emergency measures allow the AHS to force nurses to work mandatory overtime, impose longer working days, cancel vacations, and direct nurses to other hospitals to cover […]

The death of former Ontario premier Bill Davis was announced on Aug. 8. His death was met with a round of gushing praise from the political establishment across the board. Even many in the labour movement took the occasion to salute Davis’s “contributions.” We should, however, not be fooled: Bill Davis was no friend of […]

Everywhere we look, we are confronted with the same picture: crisis, instability and chaos. Unmarked graves of Indigenous children, record heat waves caused by climate change, police brutalizing homeless encampments, cuts to health care in the middle of the pandemic, the piling up of unprecedented debts on government balance sheets, the growth of the far […]

As COVID spread across the world, many activists were forced to take the struggle against capitalism online. Traditional avenues of organizing in the real world were cut off, and it was necessary  to adapt. Social media discussions, Facebook groups, Zoom meetings, and Twitter threads replaced traditional face-to-face organizing methods. This was inevitable; online activism was […]

The past months have signified an important turning point for the Indigenous struggle in Canada. For the first time ever, public opinion lies firmly on the side of Indigenous people, and awareness of Indigenous issues have reached a record high. The constant discovery of new unmarked graves at former residential schools have prompted fury across […]

Through 2020, workers faced job cuts, pay cuts and the disastrous effects of decades of health and education cuts—all while business executive pay rose nearly 20 per cent at some of Canada’s largest companies. The executive ‘salary cuts’ that weren’t  A Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives study of 1,096 executives finds top businesses—making up nearly […]