Tenants living in Ocean Breeze Village are determined to fight for their homes, but they’re up against developers with deep pockets and clear political influence. They are also facing down Halifax’s long history of displacing lower income and racialized residents.
Permanent resident status for all means that migrant workers would have the same rights and protections that local workers have, which means that they would have more power to resist hyper-exploitation from their bosses. When there is no division in the working class, we can fight together for higher wages and better working conditions for all.
September 11, 2023 marks an ominous anniversary, fifty-years since a CIA-backed coup overthrew Chile’s democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende. In office for barely three…
This labour day, Unifor members will be marching in Labour Day parades across the country. Workers are building unity from below, it is high time labour leadership follows.
In late August, multiple corporate media outlets circulated pictures supplied to them by the RCMP of two women wanted by police for stealing food items…
On Jul 13, 2023, Nova Scotia Minister of Community Services Karla MacFarlane explained how the PC government considers rising homelessness in Halifax a natural occurrence….
Migrant leader and cancer survivor Kerian Burnett can finally take a breath after the federal government approved her application for health care coverage under the…
On the Friday afternoon of July 7, a gunfight took place at the intersection of Queen and Carlaw in Leslieville. Tragically, 44-year-old Karolina Huebner-Makurat was…
There was little cause for optimism in Canada in July 1933. Thirty percent of the labour force was out of work. One-fifth of the population…
Building coalitions between unionized and non-unionized workers has never been more important as the Ford government strips away rights and services that affect all working class people.
The legacy of the Social Contract is one of betrayal. The NDP sold out its union base to appease capital – pleasing no one in the process. If the NDP is ever elected again in Ontario, unions and social movements should learn that class war won’t diminish, it will intensify.
Clara Zetkin was a leading Marxist thinker and organizer in the late 19th and early 20th century. Her ideas and activism remain relevant to all those who want to take on the far-right and build a working class movement to challenge oppression and dismantle capitalism.
