Canada
SEP presidential candidate Jerry White demands release of jailed Quebec students
May 25, 2012
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White denounces Wednesday's mass arrests of students in Quebec and calls for the building of a socialist movement to defend the social and democratic rights of all working people.
Quebec police mount mass arrests in bid to break student strike
By Keith Jones, May 25, 2012
Following this week’s mass protests backing Quebec’s striking students, the state has intensified its repression.
Quebec student strike:
Police begin to apply draconian Bill 78
By Keith Jones, May 24, 2012
Quebec authorities have begun to make use of the sweeping repressive powers contained in Bill 78—the emergency legislation the provincial Liberal government rushed through the National Assembly late last week to suppress the province-wide student strike
Canadian Pacific railway workers strike
By Carl Bronski, May 24, 2012
Within hours of the walkout by 4,800 railway workers, Conservative Labour Minister Lisa Raitt gave notice that she intended to table back-to-work legislation.
The criminalization of dissent in Chicago and Quebec
By Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president, May 24, 2012
In US and Canada, government intimidation and violence were employed against anti-NATO protesters and students fighting tuition increases.
Quebec: Huge protest supports striking students, denounces Bill 78
By Keith Jones, May 23, 2012
Tens of thousands took to Montreal streets yesterday to support the Quebec students’ strike.
Police state bill passed to suppress Quebec student strike
By Keith Jones, May 21, 2012
As in Quebec, capitalist governments the world over are responding to mounting resistance to their class-war program with state repression, trampling on democratic rights and criminalizing working-class opposition.
Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick endorses “murderer” Obama
By Carl Bronski, May 19, 2012
In a May 14 column in the Toronto Star, liberal writer Heather Mallick explains that given a choice between Republican contender Mitt Romney and drone strike “murderer” Barrack Obama, she would definitely choose the latter.
Quebec law criminalizing student strike threatens basic rights of all
By Keith Jones, May 19, 2012
Quebec’s Liberal government has rammed through emergency legislation that criminalizes the fourteen-week long Quebec student strike and places chilling restrictions on the right to demonstrate over any issue.
Quebec to adopt emergency law to break student strike
By Keith Jones, May 18, 2012
The Quebec Liberal government introduces emergency legislation aimed at breaking the 14-week student strike.
Canada’s banks received tens of billions in government support during 2008 crisis
By Carl Bronski, May 14, 2012
A recently published report has put the lie to Canadian government and media claims that the country’s big banks did not benefit from massive state support during the 2008-9 global financial crisis.
Air Canada pushes Aveos into bankruptcy, eliminating 2,600 jobs
By Laurent Lafrance, May 12, 2012
Having mounted only a token campaign against the closure of the airplane maintenance company Aveos, the machinists’ union is working alongside the Quebec Liberal government to find a buyer to relaunch the company at its members’ expense.
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