Class & Climate: The COP Folly with Martin Empson
The UK-based climate activist and writer explains how the Conferences of Parties have bureaucratized climate organizing.
Empowering Workers
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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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The Power of Public Ownership with Angella MacEwen
CUPE’s Senior Economist explains how public ownership and public investment are necessary for a productive economy.
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Francis Marion Beynon: Feminist Firebrand
Francis Marion Beynon represented early Canadian feminism that fought for the right to vote for women, and laid the groundwork for elected political representation in Manitoba and across early 20th century Canada.
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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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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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Olivar Asselin: The Radical Journalist
Amidst working-class poverty and the upheaval around the First World War, Olivar Asselin emerged as one of Montreal’s most famous journalists who advocated for Quebec’s working poor.
