Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations that India was involved in the murder of a Canadian citizen complicates efforts by Canada and its allies to woo India to counter-balance Chinese might.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation that the Indian government was involved in the (...)
February 24, 2022 marked the opening of a new phase in the developing reconfiguration of global capitalist and popular forces. Russia’s massive invasion of Ukraine, the prompt mobilization of resistance by Ukrainians, and the quick shift toward public support for NATO in much of Europe, (...)
Hong Kong diaspora organizing has never been about ’single issues’
On the night of June 26th, Olivia Chow was elected mayor of Toronto, the first non-white mayor to ever win that office in 189 years. Her win was significant in many ways. It signaled a much needed pivot from years of (...)
“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea.” — Leon Trotsky
“LET’S RENT A TRAIN !” is an unprecedented historical film about the rise and fall of a militant revolutionary group that profoundly (...)
Thousands of marchers braved frigid temperatures and took to the streets of Montréal, Quebec on Saturday, December 10, 2022 in an Indigenous-led march outside the COP 15 Conference on Biodiversity.
They came to demand strong agreements to protect land, water and all who depend on them for (...)
We do not live in a world without war, far from it. Intense in Ukraine, Burma, Yemen, just yesterday in Ethiopia, the “most deadly of the 21st century” with its 600,000 dead according to Amnesty International, they are latent and endless in Palestine, Syria, Kurdistan, South Sudan that only (...)
The socialist movement lost a long-time organizer and master builder with the death on December 26, 2022, of George Bryant at the age of 91. George and his life partner Beatrice Bryant were influential figures in the Ontario socialist movement from the 1950s. Bea Bryant died in 2016 (see A (...)
On January 11, I forwarded to the Socialist Project discussion list an interview with a Polish socialist Zofia Malisz: “Razem: Building a left alternative in Poland.” She explained that when Russia invaded Ukraine her movement, Razem, had “absolutely no doubts that this invasion represented an (...)
Atlantic Canada has been left reeling from the impacts of one of the largest and most dangerous ocean storms to ever hit the region. Hurricane Fiona made landfall as a powerful post-tropical storm on Saturday along the eastern shore of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and (...)
The Quebec election on October 3 will be bathed in a situation of inflation (and the threat of recession), which will affect food and housing as much as transport and energy, against a heat wave background hitting all continents of the northern hemisphere almost simultaneously. To put it in (...)
Apologizing for people versus the establishment that upheld not only the Indian Residential Schools system but protected – and continues to protect — the people who committed the crimes is horrifying.
Pope Francis came this week to Maskwasic in central Alberta — where many Indigenous people, (...)
It appears all but certain that the present Tory leadership race will result in a victory for the party’s hard right in the person of Pierre Poilievre. In the spirit of not laughing or weeping but understanding, it’s crucial to assess the highly unfortunate implications of so deplorable a (...)
Remarks in Alberta omitted Catholic Church’s complicity and cover-up of the sexual abuse of thousands of Indigenous children and its role in genocide.
The apology we heard from Pope Francis in Maskwacis this week was indeed historic, but predictably lacking in substance.
In what sounded (...)
In their electoral platform for the fall election, Québec solidaire, which has 10 MPs out of 125 in Quebec’s parliament, is proposing to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs) of 55 to 65% by 2030. But as the awareness of the climate catastrophe is becoming widespread, so is the (...)
It is now 40 years since the Trudeau Sr. government “patriated” Canada’s constitution, ending Britain’s vestigial control over changes in the country’s founding document, the British North America Act.
Much of the critical analysis at the time focused on how the 1982 Constitution Act (...)
Pierre Beaudet, who died a week ago, left a rich legacy of published works, both books and articles, that will remain a valuable resource for present and future generations of socialists in Quebec, Canada and internationally. I cannot inventory all of them, but I do wish to draw attention to (...)
Although I was long acquainted with his work I did not meet Pierre Beaudet until the World Social Forum in Caracas in 2006. We soon became good friends. Soon afterwards, Pierre found employment at the University of Ottawa, where he was instrumental in establishing the School of International (...)
“Pierre was a great leader, an extraordinary thinker and had a big heart. The world will miss Pierre greatly.”
Just when we needed him most to explain how the global political reality will change with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pierre Beaudet, one of Canada’s most brilliant (...)
Canada was the first NATO country to approve the enlargement of the alliance in 1998
Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has been condemned around the world. The suffering of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers is shocking, and the worst is yet to come as Russian forces push deeper into (...)
Ostensibly, the anti-vax movement is anti-tyranny and anti-fascist, and they sometimes portray the promoters of vaccine mandates as fascists. In reality there are far right and even fascist elements in the movement. But many of those participating are confused and do not have well formed (...)
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