Oil workers extract fossil fuels that are the life-blood of the system. But this work extracts a health toll from workers and surrounding communities, and contaminates the environment. When oil workers have moved into action to challenge these contradictions, they have helped topple regimes, win health and environmental regulations, and imagine a world beyond capitalism and oil.
Low-wage workers have been hit hardest by the pandemic, they were the first to lose their jobs and most likely to get COVID. A new…
By empowering workers we can create a world where the exploitation of people and the environment is not the backbone of our social or economic system.
The Liberal government’s climate plan, released this March, shows the failure of the status quo and the urgency of mass change. As Atiya Jaffar from…
A People’s Green New Deal by Max Ajl (Pluto Press, 2021) Climate change is no longer a niche subject that climate scientists argue about in…
“We cannot simply build isolated utopias while the rest of the world burns, nor can we wait for the slow process of reformist reform to…
The 2021 federal election has spurred a sense of optimism among supporters of the New Democratic Party hoping for electoral gains when votes are tallied…
In the past few months, approximately 600 water protectors have been arrested during direct action to stop the construction of Line 3 on 1855 treaty…
The victory of a deferral speaks volumes to the political and social power this movement has. It has also sparked a renewed call for the government to listen to other nation’s deferrals, and adds to the broader movement for land back and decolonization.
Regarding the battle against climate change, there is a common liberal argument that says we simply need an improvement in technology, or to push market…
Climate change and systemic racism are two heads of the same colonial coin that is the Canadian state. To tackle climate change, we must also address the racism that our structures are built from.
While the new Biden administration in the US has announced plans to cancel the Keystone XL, a pipeline project owned by TC Energy and the…
