On March 17, while the budget was being presented, thousands rallied outside the New Brunswick legislature demanding “No more cuts!” With the threat of a mass movement looming, Holt pivoted.

Many workers are furious at their union leaders and some are beginning to draw conclusions.

While higher gas prices hurt a lot now, more pain is coming.

Is it possible to repeat the events of Quebec 2012 in English Canada?

Military spending, far from boosting the real economy, is a massive drain, throwing billions away that could be spent in the real economy.

This example shows what is possible with leadership. There is nothing unique about students at McMaster, the same desire to fight the cuts exists everywhere. What made the difference was an organization actively engaging with students and pointing a way forward.

Houston’s retreat means that he is weak and it is time to press forward until the entire austerity budget is defeated!

Falardeau rails against the “profiteers who pass themselves off as philanthropists,” the “groveling journalists dressed up as servile editorialists,” the “senile senators” and other specimens of rapacious capitalists, “in New York, Paris, Mexico City.”

In simple words, their crime was to organise people to protest for their rights, and for this they have been charged with terrorism.

The RSP has surged to power, not on its own strengths, but on the weakness of everybody else. As it too becomes intertwined and associated with the rotten establishment, it can fall just as quickly as it has risen.