Articles
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Rock the Boat for Change
Forcing Climate Action
As long as you play by capital’s rules, you’re always going to lose. It’s a lesson that the climate movement learned long ago and one that trade unionists need to remember if we want to rebuild the labour movement — and secure a liveable future. Keep reading…
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The Last Ship
Rise Up Singing
The Last Ship, a stirring musical about collective solidarity, celebrates workers who take over a shipbuilding factory threatened with closure. Keep reading…
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After the U.S. Midterms
The racism and sexism women experience online and in real life, during elections and after. Keep reading…
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Hope is not a Plan
Confronting Violence in the Canadian Classroom
“I’ve been a teacher for over 25 years in intermediate, elementary, and special needs,” says Joy Lachica, president of the Elementary Teachers of Toronto (ETT), “and I have seen the violence escalating.” However, putting the blame for violence on individual students, parents, or teachers only obfuscates the reality: inadequate school funding contributes to classrooms becoming unsafe workplaces. Keep reading…
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Together We Sing
BC Work-Songs Contest
In the end it was Lyndsay Wills’ song “9:30 at the Factory” that caught the judges’ attention and won her first place in the We Do The Work Song Contest for B.C. songwriters. Keep reading…
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The Power of the Union
Postal workers like me, and labour activists across the country, are outraged that, once again, our rights as workers have been removed through back-to-work legislation. Keep reading…
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Hack the Boss and Other Good News
Some good news from New Zealand: soon some workers will be bossless. The wiggy news is that they will be taking direction, instead, from a chunk of software, presenting all kinds of interesting options for future workplace resistance. Keep reading…
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Digital Dreams (Part 1)
Beyond Corporate-Controlled Platforms
Digital “conversations” are brittle and transient, when what the world needs — and what our organizations and movements need — are places where we can have open conversations and connection grounded in solidarity. Keep reading…
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Randcuffed?
The Canadian labour movement’s growing vulnerability to attacks on its legal framework may well present an opportunity for labour to reconstitute itself as a force to be reckoned with. Keep reading…
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As The Weather Turns
It’s clear: going into Tory-held ridings is the only way to build capacity to take out the Ford government in the next election. We need to talk to people who disagree with us, and we need to work in solidarity with those who are already on our side. Keep reading…
