Labour - Unions

The rally, organized by BCTF Divest Now and Van Climate Strike Coalition, was held outside of the BCTF’s offices in an effort to get the attention of the federation’s President Clint Johnston, says Jillian Maguire, co-founder of BCTF Divest Now.

Read the full article.

Category:

British Columbia

The AFL-CIO Can Be Reformed Locally and from the Bottom-Up!

23/02/24

Author:

Steve Early

Link:

Portside

Feb. 17, 2024

Changing the leadership, structure, or functioning of any U.S. labor organization is no easy task. Activists and experts have long argued about whether dysfunctional unions are best reformed from the top-down, bottom up, or some mix of the two approaches.

Read the full article.

Category:

Labour - Unions

Social

USA

Fascist Threat and What it Means for Working Class Politics

23/02/24

Author:

The Socialist Project

Link:

Left Streamed

Feb. 18, 2024

Watch here:

https://socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed-video/fascist-threat-what-it-me...

Read the full article.

Category:

Connecting BC: A 10-year vision for public transit throughout BC

22/02/24

Author:

Marc Lee

Link:

Policynote

Feb. 16, 2024

British Columbians deserve to be able to get to where they need to go quickly, conveniently and affordably, no matter where in the province they live. And meeting our climate goals demands modern, sustainable zero-carbon transit—with great service that can offer a compelling alternative to personal cars.

But after years of neglect and privatization, today’s transit system is plagued with overcrowding, delays and big gaps in service.

Read the full article.

Category:

'Alternative' energy and less energy

General Strike Defeats Anti-Worker Law in Argentina

11/02/24

Author:

Otto Fors and R. F. Landers , Left Voice.

Link:

Popular Resistance

Feb. 7, 2024

After A National Strike And Days Of Mobilizations, The Movement In The Streets Has Defeated Far-Right President Javier Milei’s Anti-Worker Omnibus Bill.

This week in Argentina, members of congress voted on the highly repressive Omnibus Bill proposed by far-right president Javier Milei. After a general strike and four days of massive mobilizations, the bill was withdrawn. It’s a huge victory for the working class and the movement in the streets.

Read the full article.

Category:

Heat to soar, pipelines to roar in 2024

05/02/24

Author:

Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

Link:

National Observer

The longer we fail to address climate change, the more urgent the problem becomes. Photo by Markus Spiske/Pexels

The year 2024 is shaping up to be the most important ever for climate action — just like 2023 before it and 2022 before that, and so on back through at least the 1980s.

It may be a tired refrain. But in this era of accelerating and compounding crises, the longer we fail to address climate change, the more urgent the problem becomes.

So what trends, events and opportunities should concerned citizens be paying attention to in 2024?

Read the full article.

Category:

Are the provinces trying to break Canada?

01/02/24

Author:

Max Fawcett

Link:

National Observer

Ontario Premier Doug Ford participates in a discussion with future Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at the 2019 Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Feb. 1, 2024

Of all Pierre Poilievre’s familiar slogans, there’s one that stands above the rest: Canada is broken. There’s no shortage of irony there, not least because what little we know of his proposed plans and policies revolve almost exclusively around breaking things, whether it’s the CBC or Canada’s climate change policies. But the most ironic thing of all is that while Poilievre pretends Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are breaking the country, its conservative premiers are busy doing exactly that.

Read the full article.

Category:

Organize, yes, but how?

31/01/24

Author:

David Camfield

Link:

Tempest

Dec. 29, 2023

A new book takes a broad look at the protest movements of the 2010s and asks why—despite being massive—most of these movements fell far short of their goals. In this review, David Camfield takes issue with the author’s prescription for building more successful struggles.

Read the full article.

Category: