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Unions sound alarm on Uber push to "reinvent app-based work"
“This U.S.-style campaign to take away workers’ rights must be rejected. Gig workers deserve the same rights and protections as all other...
Michael Laxer
Mar 16, 20214 min read


Niki Ashton turns the tables on Twitter
NDP MP Niki Ashton takes aim at the Broadbent Institute and her critics in a truly splendid Twitter "touché" moment. Image via You Tube...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20212 min read


"Bloody Sunday" in the Philippines leads to international outrage and condemnation
The horrific campaign of extrajudicial killings of leftists continues with impunity under president Rodrigo Duterte. Philippine president...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20213 min read


"Lula Libre, Innocent and Candidate in 2022"
All of the convictions against Lula da Silva, the former Workers' Party president of Brazil, have been annulled. This leaves him free,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20213 min read


Solidarity on IWD!
Solidarity on International Women's Day! International Women's Day brings with it the inevitable lip service being paid to women's...
Michael Laxer
Mar 8, 20211 min read


Portuguese Communist Party turns 100
"The developments in the international situation confirm the exploitative, oppressive, aggressive and predatory nature of capitalism and...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20215 min read


Niki Ashton events moving forward despite brouhaha
A Palestinian solidarity event March 7 and an event featuring Jeremy Corbyn March 20 -- both involving Niki Ashton -- are moving ahead in...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20213 min read


Amazon boycott in support of Alabama union drive starts March 7
An online boycott of the corporate giant Amazon is set to start Sunday, March 7. The boycott is meant to show solidarity with the workers...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20211 min read


Broadbent Institute Executive Director fires twitter broadside at Corbyn, Ashton and Robinson
Rick Smith, Jeremy Corbyn and Niki Ashton Broadbent Institute Executive Director Rick Smith took some time out from his schedule today to...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20212 min read


Nothing is impossible: Maduro addresses the UN Human Rights Council
"Let's change the predatory capitalist economic system that has generated so much pain, death, war and misery." Image via twitter Here we...
Michael Laxer
Feb 28, 20215 min read


Perhaps the most inane NIMBY quote of all time?
The parking lot that is "the hub" of the community. “This parking lot is the hub, it’s the heart of the community. It provides everybody...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read


A better world is possible: Cuba's powerful statement to the UN Human Rights Council
"Inequalities, hunger and discrimination are growing exponentially, in a world already burdened by an unjust and undemocratic...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20213 min read


Toronto targets tiny shelters as city ranked 5th most unaffordable housing market in world
Toronto's leaders have spectacularly failed to tackle the city's affordable housing crisis. Yet now, during the winter and a pandemic,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20214 min read


Toronto Molson Coors workers locked out
According to the CBC Molson Coors has locked out employees at its Toronto brewery after 17 weeks of negotiations. The website of the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20211 min read


50 workers' parties issue statement calling for greater public health measures, ending sanctions
As the global pandemic enters its second year 50 Communist and workers' parties have issued a joint statement calling for the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20212 min read


Canada deserves #PharmacareNow joint campaign launched
“Canada is the only country in the world with universal health care that does not provide universal pharmacare, leaving 7.5 million...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20212 min read


Ontario unions launch legal challenges to Ford government and Uber attacks
Unions in Ontario are fighting back against attacks on two fronts this week with legal challenges against the Ford government and the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 15, 20212 min read


Bell layoffs are the latest CEWS travesty
The massive telecommunications company not only paid out close to $3 billion in dividends after receiving $122.9 million in public CEWS...
Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20212 min read


Leftist People's Party registers in Colorado and California
People's Party activists register the party in Colorado. Image via People's Party The Movement for a People's Party that grew out of the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 5, 20211 min read


Courage statement shows, yet again, why fighting for a left agenda in the NDP is futile
Resolutionary socialism was a waste of time in 2013 and it still is now. Screenshot from the 2018 NDP convention In the least surprising...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20213 min read
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