“Take our struggle and make it your own”: Quebec student strike solidarity...
On May 29, over a thousand people rallied in Ottawa in support of the Quebec student strike. People marched through the streets of centre town and downtown with people on street corners and in...
View ArticleGreece’s young communists speak: “Transform society and transform ourselves.”
by Eric Ribellarsi (Winter Has Its End) The following is an interview I was able to conduct with a group of about ten students who are members of the Communist Organization of Greece (KOE). We...
View ArticleWhat is a Student Strike?
On July 12th, student organizers of the Quebec student strike were in Ottawa as part of the Quebec-Ontario student solidarity tour. The video below is an excerpt from Gabriel Nadeau Dubois’ talk that...
View ArticleHow to organize a national student strike
On July 12th, student organizers of the Quebec student strike were in Ottawa as part of the Quebec-Ontario student solidarity tour. Below are a series of short videos of Gabriel Nadeau Dubois, the...
View ArticleBRAP: Flip Dot and the Dialectics of Conceit
by Ysh Cabana The parking lane along Progress Ave. was quite wide enough to congregate local Hip-Hop artists of Filipino descent from different parts of Toronto. Dance crews walked it out with beats...
View ArticleQuebec student movement blocks tuition hike
By Louisa Worrell The student movement in Quebec has won a major victory: we have forced the incoming government to promise to stop the tuition fee hike and to nullify the anti-constitutional Law 12, a...
View ArticleYouth Refuse to be the Scapegoat! M1M Statement to the Walk for Youth march
From the May 1st Movement 20 years ago, a justified rage spilled out into downtown streets. Shortly after the outrageous injustice of the acquittal of the Los Angeles Police officers who were...
View ArticleQuebec Student Leader Charged for Role in Movement / Líder Estudiantil de...
Quebec student leader charged for role in student movement Faces heavy fine, jail time Editor – Revista Encuentro QUEBEC, QC – Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, a spokesperson for the student group CLASSE that...
View ArticleOrganizations from Across Canada Meet to Build ‘United Front against...
by Hassan Reyes TORONTO, ON – Activist and community from across Canada met in Toronto on November 9-10 in the 2nd General Assembly of the Canada chapter of the International League of Peoples...
View ArticleDon’t Believe the Hype: Misreporting the Teachers’ Struggle
by Jordy Cummings Across Ontario, teachers have been mounting resistance to the newly enacted provincial bill 115, which effectively removes the right of collective bargaining and the right to strike...
View ArticleYouth deeply worried about their future / Juventud profundamente preocupada...
By Hassan Reyes. A report released this week by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) shows that an alarming number of students suffer from feelings of insecurity and stress, particularly about...
View ArticleThe University of Toronto’s Racist Assault on the Transitional Year Program
By Soledad Superville On Feb 13th a town hall meeting was held by students of U of T’s Transitional Year Program (TYP) to talk about the latest threat to the 43 year old program’s existence. The...
View ArticleNepal’s Unfinished Revolution
A communist flag flutters at the open session of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist, held on January 9, 2013 in Kathmandu. (Noaman G. Ali) by Noaman G. Ali “I just...
View ArticleTransitional Year Program Alumnus Speaks Out
“TYP is under attack” by Shahzali Samah Transitional Year Program building at U of T (photo credit: Abdi Ahmed) The Transitional Year Program (TYP) at the University of Toronto (U of T) St.George...
View ArticleKitchener-Waterloo Activists Release People’s Report on Policing
November 2012 in Toronto there was an OIPRD conference on police complaints that put forward the Provincial Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (PAVIS), the new model of policing. In response to this,...
View Article‘Made You Die’ Can Make Us Live Again
by El Machetero Political music, at its absolute best, does more than just posture and appropriate militant imagery and rhetoric: it offers a revolutionary program and guides and directs the investment...
View Article5 Years Later, No Justice for Villanueva
by M. Cooke “Despite the pain Lilian Villanueva lives through each day, she has not quit… She is still here. She is still standing up for truth and justice in the case of her son’s death.” As Margess...
View ArticleSIU ruling in Sammy Yatim case doesn’t guarantee justice
Editorial Toronto Police constable James Forcillo (left) was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 18-years old Sammy Yatim (right). This Monday morning, the Special Investigations...
View ArticlePaved with Good Intentions – Book Review
by Noaman G. Ali Paved with Good Intentions: Canada’s Development NGOs from Idealism to Imperialism Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay 303 pages (262 pages excluding notes and index). Fernwood...
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