A historic teachers’ strike has begun in Alberta. With 51,000 teachers on strike, this is the largest teachers’ strike in the history of the province, and the first since 2002.

If the teachers succeed in winning, this can set the tone for all future struggles.

There are effectively two distinct Western alienations – that of the ruling class and that of the working class.

The solidarity pact between the AFL, AUPE, Unifor, the UNA, and CUPE is a big step forward. Now it’s time to make the pact concrete.

Premier Danielle Smith has been caught red-handed using contracts with private health care providers to give payouts to her friends

CUPE workers were welcomed to the Alberta Union of Public Employees rally that as heroes.

The lie Smith repeats about how privatization will lead to superior service is only a front for her attack on the Albertan working class.

On Saturday, at a peaceful rally for Palestine held in Tomkins Park, Calgary police officers arrested three people, including lead organizer Wesam Khaled, charged with obstruction and “assaulting” a police officer. We demand that these ridiculous fines be annulled and the charges dropped against Wesam and his comrades!

A few days after the town was ravaged by wildfire, Conservative Premier Danielle Smith held a press conference where she waxed lyrical about the “magic of Jasper” in between suppressed sobs. But she has no right to cry over a tragedy, when she defends the system that caused it.

Nenshi’s victory is the latest shift in the direction of transforming the NDP towards an openly bourgeois party.