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An illegal demonstration of 250,000 shakes Quebec society

Tuesday, May 22nd saw the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. Over 250,000 youth and workers came out into the streets and openly defied the emergency law that requires police approval of protest routes 8 hours in advance. A widely publicized “official route” was broken, as the crowd turned away, following an unannounced path.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:48

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Canada: Quebec’s youth in revolt: 73 days, 178,390 students on strike

This week has been a crucial one in Quebec’s historic student strike. In their struggle against the $1,625 tuition increase, the students have held strong since February 13th —  for 73 days straight. 178,390 students remain on unlimited strike despite the government’s gamble they could wait this movement out, that it would tire and collapse.

USA: Wall Street rocked by anti-capitalist protests – time to build a labor party!

Yesterday Wall Street was rocked by a mass demonstration of over 15,000 people protesting against “corporate greed.”

USA: The Labor Movement and Occupy

We all observed dramatic battles by organized labor in 2011. There were the broad militant struggles in Wisconsin by public workers responding to the vicious attacks from right-wing Republican Governor Walker. During the summer, CWA & IBEW members went on strike against Verizon.

Last Updated on Sunday, 05 February 2012 20:21

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9/11 and the relentless terror

It is ten years today since in 2001 an outrageous attack killed 3000 innocent people and maimed hundreds of others in New York. This anniversary will be commemorated at a grand ceremony in New York where the US elite will gather in an outpouring of more pseudo-patriotism and chauvinism to dupe the working classes of the mightiest empire in history which is now plagued with economic disaster and social decay.

At the same time the mullahs will be blaring on about the victory of piety and faith against evil and immorality from the pulpits to whip up a religious hysteria that has wreaked havoc in the entire region. In reality the attack on 9/11 was a grotesque act of the fundamentalist bigots in which most of the victims were American workers already oppressed and exploited by crisis ridden US capitalism.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:19

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