Canada
Canadian Communists warn of Conservative election victory
September 10, 2021“The working class didn’t create this crisis and mustn’t pay for it. This is a capitalist crisis created by the insatiable drive to increase corporate profits,” says party leader Elizabeth Rowley.
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Activists push issues of peace to forefront in Canadian election
September 2, 2021While most political parties do backflips to avoid discussing peace and militarism, there is a strengthening peace movement which is working to bring these issues into Canada's election debate.
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Organizing is a necessity: A political history of the Hamilton Unemployed Union
August 24, 2021In the summer of 1981, Canada’s economy was in a recession, with unemployment hitting 11%. It didn't seem like the best time to try and organizer workers.
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Thousands of Indigenous children perished in ‘genocide boarding schools’
August 12, 2021Hunger. Starvation. Beatings. Ill-clothed in winter. Forbidden to speak their Native tongues. Sexual predators roaming the dormitory halls. Such was the lot of thousands of Indigenous children in the Indian boarding school era.
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Steelworker official: Jury still out on U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact
August 9, 2021Part of the problem is the enormity of the task of freeing Mexican workers from the control of corporate-dominated unions.
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