Articles / Reviews
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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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Success From Grassroots Organizing
This encouraging book about grassroots organizing in a working-class city in the San Francisco Bay Area stands out as an account, relevant to all of us, of efforts to turn the tide. Keep reading…
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Goodwin’s Way
Labour organizer and martyr Ginger Goodwin was a persuasive speaker who practised by talking to tree stumps in the woods. In Neil Vokey’s film Goodwin’s Way, Goodwin’s legacy lives on in the streets of Cumberland, BC. Keep reading…
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Canada’s Brick Wall of Racism
February 11, 2016, marks the 47th anniversary of a day that was profoundly important to the struggle for civil rights and the anti-racism movement in Canada. But why does the Sir George Williams affair seem to be missing from our history? A ground-breaking new film aims to change that. Keep reading…
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Pain and Prejudice
Karen Messing has spent almost 40 years doing research to protect workers’ health. And she has done so by working directly with those affected: workers themselves. We have a lot to learn from her experiences. Keep reading…
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Solidarity on The Big Screen
Coming from different countries and cultural contexts, and representing two different moments in time, two films released this year — Pride, from England, and Cart, from South Korea — both show, in wonderful ways, the overwhelming power of solidarity. Keep reading…
