Submitted on Tue, 09/12/2017 - 5:44pm By Stephanie Basile - CounterPunch, September 6, 2017 As antifa has burst into the mainstream in recent weeks, suddenly the efficacy of confronting Nazis in the streets is being debated on the national stage....
Canada needs a postal bank. Thousands of rural towns and villages in our country do not have a bank, but many of them have a post office that could provide financial services. As well, nearly two million Canadians desperately need...
When talks resume in November, the Canadian government must push harder to fix the many problems with the North American Free Trade Agreement. This includes eliminating Chapter 11, NAFTA’s “investor-state dispute settlement” rules. Chapter 11 lets US and Mexican corporations sue...
Last week, the two biggest Palestinian political factions, announced that they signed an initial unity agreement. This deal was announced by both sides as ‘a declaration of the end to division and a return to national Palestinian unity’. While this...
Nobel Laureate leads historic march across India to keep children safe When Kailash Satyarthi commits there is no way of stopping him, which was evident as millions followed his call to end the sexual abuse and trafficking of children in...
Workers - many of them migrants from Poland and Lithuania - have been on strike since September 8 at the fish processing company Norse Production near Bergen on the west coast of Norway. Organized in the IUF-affiliated Norwegian Food and...
The training, which was supported by Swedish organization Union to Union, aimed to enhance trade unions’ skills in using strategic research to complement organizing and campaign work. The workshop trained a pool of corporate researchers that will network among each other...
Submitted on Tue, 09/12/2017 - 5:51pm By IWOC - It's Going Down, September 11, 2017 The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), part of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), organizes prisoners into unions and support organizing efforts of incarcerated...
This is an action alert list for those who care about postal banking and are willing to share online content promoting this idea.Let's reach out to all Canadians and put pressure on decision makers to do the right thing!Alerts will...
Bill C-27 has been front and centre in the media this week, due to the controversy around Liberal Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s personal assets. But lost in the fray is much information about what this dangerous legislation would actually do. Bill C-27...
The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) was formed in 1999 in Toronto-Canada and formally announced its formation in January 2000. In nearly two decades of continuous activism, we have played an impactful role in securing international support for Iranian workers’ struggles against the Islamic Republic of Iran, employers, and the inhumane conditions the capitalist order has imposed on working-class lives in Iran. During these years, our politics and the foundational basis guiding our activism have been predicated on working-class traditions with an uncompromising emphasis on working-class independence and autonomy.