Activists Make History: Stories that Change the World with Avi Lewis
Peggy Nash is bringing conversations from the campaign trail to Activists Make History, speaking with candidates running to be the next leader of the federal NDP.
Empowering Workers
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Labour and the NDP: Revisiting the Past, Looking to the Future
The NDP’s ability to credibly advance this alternative vision depends largely on whether the labour movement is itself willing and able to engage in such political and economic education.
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Newfoundland’s First Mass Party
There are many lessons for today’s labour organizers and social democrats to learn from the FPU as a mass party, such as its deep entrenchment within struggling working-class communities, and the alternative economic and financial institutions it built.
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Organizing Canada’s Building Trades with Ironworkers Bert Royer and Nigel Hare
Ontario’s Building and Construction Trades Council keeps workers protected and empowered from apprenticeship to retirement.
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Activists Make History: Women United — Toronto Book Launch
The new book by Peggy Nash & Julie White tells the untold stories of dozens of women leaders in the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Union.
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Public Sector Job Cuts Undermine the Federal Government’s Commitment to Canadians
There are easy solutions for the government to both raise revenue and rein in spending in a way that is fair and beneficial for Canadians, and that doesn’t compromise services.
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Les coupes dans la fonction publique mettent à mal les engagements du gouvernement fédéral
Il existe donc des solutions, mais le gouvernement revient à la charge avec une politique d’austérité dont l’échec est pourtant documenté depuis des décennies.
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Reinvest in Public Service Capacity — End Contracting Out
Ending the practice of contracting out at DND is in the interest of national security and public trust while respecting workers and taxpayers.
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Scapegoat Economics: Why Blaming Immigrants Won’t Fix the Youth Unemployment Crisis
There are proven solutions around the world that young Canadians can point to whenever policymakers and big business try to pit youth against immigrants.
