JANUARY 2013
January 14, 2013 - No. 1
2013 -- One Class, One
Program
• Develop the
Independent Politics of the Class
In the
Legislature
• Defend the
Pensions We Have and Fight for Pensions for All! - Rita
Soto
• Bill 10 Sets Stage
for Further Attacks on Defined Benefit Pensions
The Right to Health Care
• Ministerial
Directives in the Service of Private Interests
• Oppose Cuts to
Home Care - Peggy Morton
Letter
to the Editor
• Education Minister
Proposes Merit Pay
Governments Must Stop
Paying the Rich!
• How Can the Price
of a Barrel of Oil Decide Everything? - Dougal
MacDonald
• Further Evidence
That the Public Must Control Monitoring of Alberta's Oilsands -
George
Allen
January 16, 2013 - No. 2
New Employment Insurance
Regulations Come Into Force
• Growing Movement
Demands the Repeal of Anti-Social Changes to EI
• Anti-Social
Changes to EI
Interviews
• France Simard,
Autonomous Movement in Solidarity with the Unemployed (MASSE)
• Sylvain Bergeron,
Actions and Services Working in Unity with the Unemployed
(LASTUSE)
• Mario Guitard,
Local 113, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of
Canada (CEP)
• Michel Richard,
Organizer, Maritime Fishermen's Union; Spokesperson, Committee
Against the EI Changes in South Eastern New Brunswick
The Labour Market Is a Modern Slave
Trade
of
Employees
• Confronting
Unemployment and Insecurity of an Uncertain Livelihood Means
Confronting Monopoly Right (Excerpts) - K.C. Adams,
December 3, 2005
January 17, 2013 - No. 3
Stop Paying the Rich
• The Corruption of
Handing Public Money to Privately Owned and Controlled
Monopolies - K. C. Adams
Resource
Development
• Who Decides? Who
Benefits?
• Resource
Monopolies Demand Harper Demobilize Opposition -
Jim Nugent
For Your Information
• Series on Mining
in British Columbia -- Part 1 - Doug
Pittman
January 18, 2013 - No. 4
Affirm the Rights of First
Nations
• The Struggle to
Affirm Rights Is One Struggle
• Just Demands Put
Forward to Harper - Enver Villamizar
• Métis and
Non-Status Aboriginal People Win Historic Court Battle for Their
Rights - Philip Fernandez
• Actions
Continue Across Canada and Abroad to Affirm First Nations'
Rights
• Idle No More World
Day of Action, January 28
January 21, 2013 - No. 5
Time for a New Direction for the
Economy!
• No to Austerity!
Redford Government Prepares Anti-Social Budget - Peggy
Morton
• Sale of XL Foods
to Global Monopoly JBS S.A. - Rita Soto
• Government
Pay-the-Rich Schemes in the Beef Industry
Health Care Is a Right!
• Governments Must
Stop Intervening in Defence of Private Interests - Peggy
Askin
Letter to the Editor
• Home Care Must Be
Humanized
For Your Information
• Alberta Beef
Production
• Crisis in the Beef
Industry
January 23, 2013 - No. 6
Anti-Social Changes to
Employment
Insurance
• Harper Dictatorship
Attempts to Whitewash Abuse of Power - Pierre
Chénier
• Interviews
Attacks on Forestry
Workers Continue
• Resolute Forest
Products Invents More Ways to Skin Workers - Normand
Chouinard
Public Right Yes! Monopoly
Right No!
• Brookfield to
Supervise Privatization of Government Office Buildings -
Jim Nugent
• Consultation Fraud
on Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Funding -
Rob Woodhouse
January 24, 2013 - No. 7
Affirming First Nations
Rights
• Chief Spence Ends
Hunger Strike; Vows to Continue Struggle for First Nations'
Rights
• Steadfast Stand in
Defence of First Nations' Rights
• Alberta Cree
Leaders Speak About Filing for Judicial Review of Bills C-38 and
C-45
• K'omoks First
Nation Teach-In -- Building Unity in Defence of the Rights of
All
• Grand Council
Chief of Anishinabek Nation Refuses Queen's Medal
Interview and Conversation
• Grand Chief
Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• Two
Elders
January 25, 2013 - No. 8
Canada Post Continues to
Squander
Postal Assets
• Reckless Path to
Privatization - Louis Lang
• Closure of Windsor
Post Office
British Columbia
• Government
Continues Assault on Public Services and Public Sector
Workers
• Defending Public
Education in Cowichan
• North Island
Hospitals Project -- A Pay-the-Rich Scheme at the Expense of
Patients, Health Care Workers and the Economy
January 28, 2013 - No. 9
No Austerity
Agenda!
Stop Paying The Rich -- Increase Funding for Social Programs
• Alison Redford's
"Conversation" with Albertans - Peggy Morton
• Looking at the
Numbers -- Falsification Aimed at Creating a Crisis
• Oil Prices
2005-2012
• Growing Opposition
to Austerity Agenda
Affirm the Rights of
All!
• Solicitor-General
Tries to Criminalize First Nations' Protests - Dougal
MacDonald
• Alberta
Agricultural Workers Continue to Fight for Their Rights -
George Allen
January 30, 2013 - No. 10
Making Concessions to Auto
Monopolies
• The Necessity for a
Working Class Program
• $34 Million in
Public Funds Given to Toyota
Rio Tinto Alcan
• Workers Challenge
Arrogant Conduct of Rio Tinto - Interview, Hugues
Villeneuve, President, Syndicat des travailleurs de l'aluminium
d'Alma, USW Local 9490
Farmers Continue to Hold Government
to Account for Violation of Rule of Law
• Supreme Court
Denies Farmers' Appeal of Government's Destruction of Canadian
Wheat Board
• Have the Supremes
Taken Canadians Back to 1214? - Canadian Wheat Board
Alliance
Affirm the Rights of First Nations
• National Farmers'
Union in Solidarity with Idle No More - Press
Release
FEBRUARY 2013
February 1, 2013 - No. 11
41st Session of Parliament
Resumes
• Harper Government's
Abuse of Parliament to Continue in Current Session - Jim Nugent
• Idle No More Day
of Action
February 4, 2013 - No. 12
Discussion on the Alberta
Government's Austerity Agenda
• Who Decides: Control
of Public and First Nations' Lands - Peggy Morton
• The Need for a New
Direction for the Economy
• Whose Oil -- Our
Oil! Who Decides -- We Decide!
Health
Care Is a Right!
• No Cuts to
Seniors' Care! Fight for a Modern Definition of Seniors Care! -
Peggy
Askin
• Alberta Health
Services' Capital-Centred Outlook
• How the New
Long-Term Care Funding Formula Enriches Private Owners
For a Modern System of Taxation
• The Practice of
Taxing Individuals Is Obsolete - Dougal MacDonald
February 6, 2013 - No. 13
Defend the Korean People's Right
to Be
• Oppose U.S.-South
Korean Nuclear War Games!
Anti-DPRK UN
Security Council Resolution 2087
• DPRK Affirms Its
Right to Peaceful Use of Space, Sovereignty and Self-Defence
• U.S. Double
Standards over Satellite Launch Denounced
DPRK's Nation-Building Program in 2013
• Continuing the
Work to Strengthen the Socialist Economy, Boost National Defence
and Advance Reunification
Coming
Events
• Halifax Weekly
Pickets: Hands Off Syria! Hands Off Iran!
• Public Meeting:
Tales of Terror -- The U.S. War on Cuba
February 7, 2013 - No. 14
Opposition to Nation-Wrecking
• Motion Filed to Stop
Latest Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act
• Save Our Post
Office Save Our Services Rally in Windsor - Catherine
Owen
• Layoffs in Another
Key Economic Sector in Waterloo Region
• Vertis Printing
Plant Workers in Fort Erie Protest Closure and Denial of
Severance
• Protest Demands
Immediate Shutdown of Uranium Processing Plant in Toronto
• Kingston Health
Care Workers Oppose Cuts and Privatization Disguised as
Reform - Rob Woodhouse
• Yet Another
Example of Monopoly Right Running Amok - Mistahi
Corkill
February 8, 2013 - No. 15
CCAA Bankruptcies Are a Fraud
• Supreme Court Ruling
Cuts in Half Defined Benefits of Indalex Retirees - K.C.
Adams
Opposition to Anti-Social Changes
to Employment Insurance
• Mass Actions
Continue in Quebec and New Brunswick
New
Immigration Measures in U.S.
• Assumption of
Unfettered Police Powers - Voice of Revolution
• Highlights of
Immigration Proposals from Obama and
Senators
February 11, 2013 - No. 16
No Austerity Agenda!
Stop Paying The Rich -- Increase Funding for Social
Programs
• Economic Summit Held in Calgary
• Discussion on
Developing Resistance to Austerity Agenda of the Rich -
Peggy Morton
• The $6 Billion
Claim -- "Creative Accounting" at Work to Justify an Austerity
Budget
• Public Control of
Natural Resources Is a Pro-Social Solution
February 12, 2013 - No. 17
Winter Session of Quebec
National
Assembly Opens
• Where Is Quebec
Headed?
• A Balancing Act
Which Is Bound to Derail - Normand Fournier
For Your Information
• 150 Days of the
Marois Government -- Status of Bills in the National Assembly
February 14, 2013 - No. 18
Hands Off Pensions and
Benefits
• Supreme Court
Legalizes Government Expropriation Without Compensation of
Federal Public Service Pension Funds
• Ontario Government
Unilaterally Freezes Contributions to Teachers' Pension
Plan
Air Canada Found Guilty of
Misconduct in Aveos Case
• Quebec Superior
Court Judge Rules Air Canada Violates Law - New
Horizons
Opposition to Canada Post's
Nation-Wrecking
• Windsor Rally
Opposes Closure of Local Post Office
February 15, 2013 - No. 19
All Out to Rescind Anti-Social
Changes to Employment Insurance
• More Rallies in
Quebec
Opposition to Quebec Government's
Anti-Social Offensive
• Government
Scientists and Researchers Strongly Oppose Cuts
Health Care Is a Right!
• Capital-Centred
View of Private-for-Profit Health Care Delivery to Pay the
Rich
Latin America
• Elections in
Ecuador
• Progress in
Colombian Peace Talks
February 18, 2013 - No. 20
Defend the Pensions We Have!
Fight
for Pensions for All!
• Alberta Public
Sector Pensions Under Attack - Peggy Askin
• Send a Message --
Hands Off Our Pensions!
• Alberta Government
Dictates that Public Sector Pension Plans Must Submit to
Anti-Social Austerity Agenda - Peggy Morton
Stop Paying the Rich
• Outrageous Demand
by Energy Monopolies to Be Paid Once Again - George
Allen
Organize for a New Direction for
the Economy
• The Gap Between
Rich and Poor in Alberta - Dougal MacDonald
Affirm The Rights of All
• Memorial Marches
for the Murdered and Missing Women Held in Alberta
• Edmonton Coalition
Against War and Racism Holds Monthly Picket and Discussion
February 20, 2013 - No. 21
Speech from the Throne to
British
Columbia Legislature
• Pay the Rich
Politics Poses Grave Danger to BC Polity
Whose Economy? Our Economy! Who
Decides? We
Decide!
• The Fight against
HD Mining Company Is a Just Struggle for the Rights of All
• The Tumbler Ridge
Boondoggle of the 1980s and Today's Situation - Charles
Boylan
Stop Paying the Rich -- Increase
Funding for Social Programs!
• Defend the Rights
of BC Seniors
• Translink's
"Catching Fare Evaders": Pretext to Hand Public Funds to Private
Interests - Brian Sproule and K.C.
Adams
February 21, 2013 - No. 22
Stand Up for Your Right to
Be!
• Down with Harper's
EI Changes! Organize and Fight for a New Direction for the
Economy!
Canada Post's Outrageous
Claims
• Postal Workers Are
Not Fooled! - Louis Lang
Xstrata Nickel, Sudbury
• Mine Mill Workers
Ratify New Contract and Fend Off Concessions - Richard
Paquin, President, Mine Mill Local 598, Canadian Auto
Workers
Ecuador
• Movimiento Alianza
PAIS Wins Presidency and Majority in National Assembly
February 22, 2013 - No. 23
Affirm First Nations'
Hereditary,
Treaty and Constitutional Rights
• Urgent
Action Filed at UN Committee on Elimination of Racial
Discrimination - Press Release
Manufacturing Yes! Nation-Wrecking No!
• Steadfast
Resistance of Acier Leroux Workers in Boucherville, Quebec Brings
End to Lockout - Interview, Lucien Dallaire, President,
Syndicat des travailleurs d'Acier Leroux
• Boom and Bust in
Iron Mining Sector - Jim Nugent
Commentary on DPRK Nuclear Test
• Ending Nuclear
Weapons Begins with Opposing Imperialists' Nuclear Blackmail -
Philip Fernandez
February 25, 2013 - No. 24
The Fight in Alberta for the
Right
to Education
• Stand with Teachers
Fighting for the Right to Public Education - Kevan
Hunter
• Teachers Oppose
Neo-Liberal Reforms of Education and Anti-Social Direction of the
Economy
• Teachers'
Unsustainable Workload Must Be Addressed
• Why Teachers
Oppose Merit Pay
No to Alberta
Government's Austerity Agenda!
• Discussion on
Austerity Agenda and Upcoming Budget - Peggy
Morton
February 26, 2013 - No. 25
Day of Action Demands Justice
for
the Unemployed
• Thousands of Workers
Give Resounding NO! to Anti-Social Changes to Employment
Insurance
• What the Workers
Had to Say
• Number of Workers
Receiving EI Falls
• Public Service
Alliance of Canada Calls on Government to Suspend House Calls to
EI Recipients
February 28, 2013 - No. 26
Harper
Government's
Anti-Social Agenda
• Scientists Resist Program to
Silence Them - Philip Fernandez
British Columbia's
Pay-the-Rich Schemes
• Increased Fees for Medical
Services Plan
- Charles Boylan
• Private Medical Premiums and
Other User Fees
for Health Care
• Growing Opposition to Expansion
of Kinder
Morgan Pipeline
MARCH 2013
March 1, 2013 - No. 27
Without Dignity of Labour There Can Be
No Dignity for Canada
Oppose the State Organized Attacks on Labour
Without Dignity of Labour There
Can Be No Dignity for Canada
• Opposition to Harper
Government's Anti-Worker Legislation in the Senate
• Dangerous State
Organized Attacks on Labour - Peggy Morton
• Saskatchewan
Government Conducts Sweeping Rewrite of Labour Laws
Affirm the Rights of First Nations!
• How DeBeers
Contributed to the Housing Crisis in Attawapiskat -
Philip Fernandez
The Human Right to
Conscience
• Harper's New
Office of Official Intolerance Opposes the Right to
Conscience - Dougal MacDonald
March 4, 2013 - No. 28
The Fight in Alberta for the
Right to Education
• Alberta Teachers Reject
Government's "Offer" - Kevan Hunter
• Alberta Government
Attacks Teachers' Organization
• Letter to the Editor:
Privacy Commissioner Investigates Department of Education
• Redford Regime Preparing
New Attacks on the Right to Post-Secondary Education -
Dougal MacDonald
Health Care Is a Right
• Health Care Workers Rally
and Speak Out for Health Care
Women Fight for Dignity and
Rights
• Protecting Our Women from
Violence: Reclaiming Our Safety
Coming Events
• Celebrate International
Women's Day
March 6, 2013 -
No.
29
Untimely Death of
President Hugo Chávez
• Viva President Hugo
Chávez! Long Live the Bolivarian Revolution!
• Condemn Prime Minister Harper's
Deplorable Uncouth Statement!
• Venezuela Rejects Statement of
Prime Minister of Canada
Fight for the Dignity
of Labour
• U.S. Steel Must Make Stelco's
Pension Plans
Whole - Local 1005 USW
• Montreal Postal Workers
Demonstrate Against
Untenable Working Conditions
• Opposition to Employment
Insurance Reform
Continues to Build
Crisis of
Anti-Consciousness
• Business Development Bank of
Canada Researches Disappearance of Mid-Sized Companies
Coming Events
• International Women's Day 2013
• Ottawa, March 14: Celebration of
Rideau Canal Workers Designation
March 7, 2013 - No. 30
International Women's Day
2013
• Women's Dignity and
Future Lie in the Fight for the Rights of All! Take Up the
Independent Politics of the Working Class
Interviews
• Mélanie
Tremblay, Recording-Secretary, Aluminium Workers' Union of
Alma
• France Simard,
Spokesperson, Mouvement Action Chômage, Lac-Saint-Jean
• Ivy Shaw, Retired
Postal Worker, Halifax
• Magali Giroux,
Postal Worker, Montreal
• Marie Jeanne
Vandoorne, Agriculture Workers Alliance, Coordinator for
Saint-Rémi Support Centre for Migrant Farm Workers
• Sharon DeSousa,
Ontario Regional Executive Vice-President, Public Service
Alliance of Canada
SUPPLEMENT
• Venezuelan People
Show Their Mettle: Bolivarian Sea of Support for President Hugo
Chávez
March 8, 2013 - No. 31
International Women's Day
2013
• Victory to the
Struggle of Women for Their Emancipation! - Statement of the
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Women at the
Forefront of Changes for a New Direction for Quebec! -
Statement of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec
Governments Must Take Up Their
Responsibility
to
End Violence Against Women
• Harper
Government's Hypocrisy - Christine Nugent
Keep Alive the Demand for Justice for
First
Nations Women and Girls!
• Hold Harper and
the Canadian State to Account! Stop Police Abuse of First
Nations' Women and Girls!
• BC Inquiry into
Violence Against Women Found Lacking
• Memorial Vigils
and Marches Keep Alive the Demand for Justice!
• Open Letter to the
Prime Minister: A National Inquiry Is Needed! - Native Women's
Association of Canada
Women and
Precarious Work
• Precarious Work --
A Problem for Society to Take Up for Solution - Sylvia Etts
• Canadian Media
Guild Opposes Attempts to Blame Unions for Precarious Work
For Your Information
• Some Facts on
Women in the Workplace
• Statistics
Related to Violence Against Women
• Missing and
Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls
March 11, 2013 - No. 32
Stop Paying the Rich -- Increase
Funding for Social Programs
• No to Redford's
Austerity Budget - Peggy Morton
• Public Sector
Unions Stand United Against Austerity Budget
• Oppose the New
Government Attacks on Post-Secondary Education - George
Allen
• Oilsands
Monopolies Making Big Profits from the "Bitumen Bubble"
- Dougal MacDonald
• Deficit Hysteria
to Justify Paying the Rich
• Alberta Budget
Revenue Sources by Amount and Percentage
Affirm the Rights of All
• International
Women's Day in Photos
March 12, 2013 - No. 33
Chávez Lives, the
Struggle
Continues!
• Outpouring of Social
Love at State Funeral for Hugo Chávez
• Nicolás
Maduro Sworn In as President
• Presidential
Election Announced for April 14
• We Have Lost Our
Best Friend - Fidel Castro
• The Legacy of
President Hugo Chávez
March 13, 2013 - No. 34
50th Anniversary of the Founding
of The Internationalists
• Hail the Legacy of The
Internationalists and Carry It Forward! - Communist Party of
Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
The Significance of the Founding of The
Internationalists
• In the Words of Hardial Bains
Fifty Years of Action with
Analysis
• 1963 Founding of
The Internationalists: History in the Making
- Charles Boylan
March 18, 2013 - No. 35
In Memoriam
• Dacajeweiah, Splitting the Sky
Canada's Protection of Brutal
Mining Practices
• Harper's Foreign
Investment Protection Agreements and the Modern-Day Scramble for
Africa - Jim Nugent
• A Different Truth
About Canadian Mining Companies - Normand Fournier
• Cliffs Resources
to Close Iron Ore Pellet Plant in Quebec
• Blackmail by
Mining Companies in Quebec
Canada
Jeopardizes Food Security
• UN Report
Criticizes Harper Government's Dereliction of Duty
• Note to
Readers
March 19, 2013 - No. 36
Increase Investments in
Education!
Education Is a Right!
• Alberta Students and
Faculty Take a Stand for Public Education
• Organized
Resistance Builds Against Government Attacks on Post-Secondary
Education - Dougal MacDonald
• Students,
Educators and Their Allies Rally Against Cuts to Education
• High School
Students Affirm Their Rights and Demand a Say
• Alberta Teachers
Discuss Tentative Agreement - Kevan Hunter
• Government
Declares Post-Secondary Education Is the Servant of the
Monopolies - George Allen
Affirm the Rights of All!
• No to the Broad
Attacks on Seniors in the Alberta Government's Austerity
Budget! - Peggy Morton
• Keep Michener
Centre Open - Peggy Askin
March 21, 2013 - No. 37
Anti-Social Agenda of the Harper
Government
• Muzzling Dissent by
Civil Service Professionals - Jim Nugent
• Doctors Speak Out
Against For-Profit Blood Clinics
• Continued
Opposition to Employment Insurance Reform - Serge
Lachapelle
British Columbia
• "Ethnic Vote"
Scandal Highlights Necessity for Democratic Renewal -
Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell and Charles Boylan
Canada Suffers a Significant Loss
• Stompin' Tom
Connors, Poet of the People - Dougal MacDonald
March 22, 2013 - No. 38
Disinformation on Cuba
• Condemn Media
Campaign Against Revolutionary Cuba - Tony Seed
• Toronto Star Makes
Up Facts in Exposé - Andrew Brett
• Cuba Third Most
Popular Caribbean Tourist Destination
• Cuban Adjustment
Act Exposed - Manuel E. Yepe
Threat of U.S. War on Korean Peninsula
• Democratic
People's Republic of Korea Confirms Nullification of Armistice
Agreement
• Facts vs.
Disinformation on Scrapping of Armistice Agreement
• Sanctions Doomed
to Failure - Rodong Sinmun
Commentary
March 25, 2013 - No. 39
Sovereignty Yes! Annexation
No!
• No to the Keystone
XL Pipeline! - Peggy Morton
Public Right Not Monopoly Right!
• Alberta Government
Approves Untested Plan for Massive Disposal of Toxic Oilsands
Waste - George Allen
The People
Must Decide! The People Must Benefit!
• Interview with
Andre Vachon, Pipeline Worker in Alberta
• Governments Must
Defend the Public Interest, Not Act as Salespeople for the Oil
Monopolies - Rita Soto
• Protection of
Mother Earth Requires Public and First Nations' Control
March 26, 2013 - No. 40
Affirmative Action
• Cree Youth Walk from
Hudson Bay to Ottawa to Affirm Their Right to Be
British Columbia
• Government's Aim
of a Balanced Budget to Pay the Rich
• Neo-Liberal Action
Plans and Balanced Budgets Mean Real Cuts to Seniors' Care -
Barbara Biley
Alberta
• Advancing the
Struggle for the Right to Education - Dougal
MacDonald
• Students, Staff,
and Allies Continue Fight Against Post-Secondary
Education Cuts
March 27, 2013 - No. 41
Affirm First Nations Rights and
the Rights of All
• Demand a
Human-Centred Development of Ring of Fire
• Profile of Ring of
Fire First Nations Communities
News from
the Front Lines
• International Day
for Elimination of Racism Commemorated in Ottawa Under Idle No
More Banner
• Call to Action
from Idle No More and Defenders of the Land
• Statement of Innu
Woman from Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam, on Hunger Strike Since January
1
• Idle No More
Support for Declaration by Mi'kmaq Grassroots
People
• Note to
Readers
APRIL 2013
April 2, 2013 - No. 42
Increase Investments in Education! Education Is a
Right!
• Alberta Government Demands
Post-Secondary Institutions Uphold Monopoly Right -
Dougal MacDonald
• School Boards Reject
Proposed Bargaining Framework - Kevan Hunter
Who
Speaks for Alberta?
• Tom Flanagan's Last
Stand - Peggy Morton
The Legacy of Ralph Klein
• Alberta as the Proving
Ground of the Anti-Social Offensive
April 4, 2013 - No. 43
Opposition to Harper
Government's Abusive Employment Insurance Reforms
• Mass Demonstration
Announced for Montreal
British
Columbia
• A Budget Worthy of
Contempt
• BC's Anti-People
Austerity Budget
Corrupt and
Scandal-Ridden Harper Government
• Penashue Case
Underscores Necessity for Political Renewal
• Former
Conservative Staffer Charged in Robocalls Scandal
April 5, 2013 - No. 44
Earth Day 2013
• April 21 Montreal
Walk for the Earth
Public Right Yes!
Monopoly Right No!
• Accelerating
Attacks on What's Left of U.S. Public Post Office - Louis
Lang
• Pitney Bowes Funds
Study Promoting Privatization of U.S. Postal Service
Venezuela
• Campaign for
Election of New President Underway - Claude
Brunelle
U.S. Troops Out of South
Korea Now! U.S. Sign a Permanent Peace Agreement Now!
• North-South
Relations Put on a War Footing
• Workers' Party of
Korea Takes New Strategic Decisions
• South Koreans
Protest Presence of U.S. Nuclear Submarines
• U.S. Flies Stealth
Bombers over Korea
April 8, 2013 - No. 45
Education Is a Right! Increase
Investments in Education!
• Opposition to
Education Budget Cuts Continues to Grow in Alberta -
Dougal MacDonald
Health Care Is a
Right!
• Workers at
Waterford of Summerlea Seniors' Residence Fight for Their
Rights
• Fight for Modern
Seniors' Care - Peggy Askin
• Health Services
Inquiry into "Queue-Jumping" Concludes - Rita Soto
Tom Flanagan's Last Stand, Part Two
• The Neo-Liberal
Calgary School - Peggy Morton
April 9, 2013 - No. 46
April 9, 1898
• 115th Anniversary of
the Birth of Paul Robeson
• "You Are the
Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves"
- Paul Robeson Appears Before House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC), June 12, 1956
April 11, 2013 - No. 47
State-Organized Attacks on
Private Property
• Finance Minister
Announces Plan to Seize Personal and Business Bank Accounts Like
EU's Attacks on Cyprus- K.C. Adams
• Government
Hypocrisy on Savings
April 12, 2013 - No. 48
New Democratic and Liberal Party
Conventions
• The Two
Conventions
• New Democratic
Party's Biennial Convention in Montreal
• Federal Liberals'
Leadership Race
April 15, 2013 - No. 49
Profound Concern Over Danger of
War on Korean Peninsula
• Demand the U.S. Sign
a Permanent Peace Treaty Now!
• Historic Jeju
People's Uprising Finds Expression Today in Opposition to U.S.
Military Occupation of South Korea - Philip
Fernandez
• U.S. Financial
Sanctions Against DPRK as the Godfather of Nuclear Tests
on Korean Peninsula - Ronda Hauben, Netizen
Journalism and the New News
101st
Anniversary of the Birth of Korean Leader Kim Il Sung
• Kim Il Sung Opens
Korea's Path to Peace and Prosperity
April 16, 2013 - No. 50
British Columbia Election Called
for May 14
• Defeat the
Anti-Social Agenda! Defeat the Anti-Social Clark Liberals!
• Party Standings
Prior to 40th BC Provincial Election
Discussion on the Need to Empower the Elector
• Fixed Date
Elections Still Pose the Need for Democratic Renewal -
Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell
In the Name of Carbon
Neutrality
• Pay-the-Rich
Corruption and Attacks on Social Programs - Charles
Boylan
All Out to Support the People of
Venezuela!
• Victory for
Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuelan Presidential
Election
April 17, 2013 - No. 51
Abolish the Temporary Foreign Workers Program
• Alberta Federation of
Labour Calls for Inquiry - Peggy Morton
Education
Is a Right! Increase Investments in Education!
• Organized Resistance to
Attacks on Post-Secondary Education Spreads Province-Wide
- Dougal MacDonald
Stop Paying the Rich! Increase
Investments in Social Programs
• Redford Keeps Promises to
Pay the Rich But Not Those to Invest in Social Programs -
George Allen
Health Care Is a Right!
• Monterey Place Health
Care Workers Accept Mediated Settlement After 280-Day Lockout
- Peggy Askin
Letter to the Editor
• Provincial Government
Welcomes Monopoly with Sinister Nazi Past
April 19, 2013 - No. 52
Anti-Social Offensive Becomes
Increasingly Brutal
• Harper's Wrecking
Ball Takes Out Health Council of Canada - Peggy
Morton
• Actions Continue
for Immediate Repeal of Changes to Employment Insurance
• Welfare Recipients
and Their Allies in Quebec Demand Withdrawal of Welfare Cuts
- Serge Lachapelle
Uphold First
Nations' Treaty, Hereditary and Constitutional Rights
• First Nations
Demonstration in Thunder Bay Rejects Harper Government's
Fraudulent Consultations Regarding First Nations Education
Act
Oppose Disinformation About Cuba
• CTV Network's "W5"
Joins Anti-Cuba Diatribe - Isaac Saney, National
Spokesperson, Canadian Network On Cuba
April 22, 2013 - No. 53
Education Is a Right! Increase Investments in
Education!
• Redford Regime Launches
Direct Attack on Rights of Post Secondary Education Workers
- Dougal MacDonald
• Edmonton and District
Labour Council Supports Right to Education
• To Fight or Not to Fight
Is Not the Question - Kevan Hunter
• Discussion on the
"Comfort Letter" to the Alberta Teachers Association from Alison
Redford
No to P3s!
• Campaign to Stop Transit
Privatization Launched in Edmonton
• Harper Dictatorship Uses
Blackmail to Serve Private Monopoly Interests
Coming Events
• April 28 -- Day of
Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured on the Job
April 26, 2013 - No. 54
April 28 National Day of
Mourning
• Condemn the
Workplace Massacre of Workers in Bangladesh
• Demand
Governments Guarantee the Right to Safe and Healthy Working
Conditions!
• Interviews
• Mass Workplace
Deaths in Bangladesh - Pritilata Waddedar
Stepped Up Attacks on Injured Workers
• Oppose Push to
Privatize Workers' Compensation - Christine Nugent
• Predatory
Practices of Private Insurance Companies
For Your Information
• Some History and
Facts
Coming Events
• Day of Mourning
Ceremonies Across Canada
April 29, 2013 - No. 55
Public Right Yes! Monopoly Right No!
• Alberta Labour Board Orders
Striking Edmonton Remand Centre Workers Back to Work
• Rally to Keep Edmonton
Transit Public
• Stand With St. Albert
Teachers! - Kevan Hunter
• Secret Labour Law Reviews
to Serve the Construction Monopolies - Peggy
Askin
Energy Policy Must Serve the Public Interest
• Alberta Federation of
Labour Adopts Economic Blueprint
• Another Outrageous Scheme
to Pay the Energy Monopolies - Dougal
MacDonald
Letter to the Editor
• Wildrose Crusade to
Uncover Corruption in Health Care Is a Cover Up
May Day
2013
• All Out for International
Day of Working Class Unity and Struggle
MAY 2013
May 1, 2013 - No. 56
May Day 2013
• All Out to Empower
the Working Class and People! Workers and Oppressed Peoples of
All Countries, Unite! - Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist)
Hold Governments and Monopolies to
Account! Bring an End to Workplace Deaths!
• Worker Crushed at
Rio Tinto Plant in Alma, Quebec
• Responsibility for
Disaster in Bangladesh - Jim Nugent
• Petition for Just
Compensation for Bangladeshi Workers and Their Families
Photo Review
• May Day 2012 to
May Day 2013
May 3, 2013 - No. 57
National Mass Action in Montreal
Demands Repeal of Anti-Social Changes to Employment Insurance
• Protesters Pledge to
Block Cowardly Attack Against Workers and Their Regions
May 6, 2013 - No. 58
Defend the Rights of Workers! Uphold the Rights of
All!
• Alberta Government
Launches Assault on Union of Provincial Employees
• Mobilize the Opinion of
the Public! Oppose Governments that Act with Impunity! -
Peggy Morton
No Austerity Agenda!
• Keep Michener Centre
Open! - Peggy Askin
Education Is a Right! Increase Investments in Education!
• Tory Minister Declares
University Research Will Be Dictated by the Monopolies -
Dougal MacDonald
Stop Paying the Rich!
• Energy Monopoly Profits
Expose "Bitumen Bubble" Fraud Again - George Allen
May 8, 2013 - No. 59
Harper Government's Anti-Social Offensive
• Unacceptable
Assault on Crown Corporation Collective Bargaining
• Transformation of
National Research Council Short-Sighted, Misguided and
Unbalanced - Canadian Association of University
Teachers
Manufacturing Yes! Nation-Wrecking No!
• We Are Now at a
Crossroads at Rio Tinto - Interview, Hugues Villeneuve,
President, Syndicat des travailleurs de l'aluminium
d'Alma
• Caterpillar Closes
Another Ontario Heavy Production Machinery Plant
- Jim Nugent
Privatization of Canada Post
• 2012 Annual Report
Paves Way for Further Privatization - Louis Lang
• Note to Our
Readers
May 14, 2013 - No. 60
Step Up Nationwide Defence of First Nations' Rights
• Beaver Lake Cree Affirm
the Right to Decide and Challenge Monopoly Right
- Peggy Morton
• Beaver Lake Cree Nation's
Right to Tar Sands Trial Upheld by Alberta Court of Appeal-
Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs
(RAVEN)
Education Is a Right! Increase Investments in Education!
• New Government Research
Institute Is the Handservant of the Monopolies
- Dougal MacDonald
Stop Paying the Rich!
• Harper Also Pays the
Monopolies to Exploit the Oilsands - George Allen
Hold the Redford Government to Account
• Restore Funding to the
Persons with Developmental Disabilities Budget
- Peggy Askin
• Keep Michener Centre
Open!
• Quality Seniors' Care Is
a Right! - Rita Soto
Letter to the Editor
• Welcome Target to Alberta
by Organizing the Stores!
May 15, 2013 - No. 61
65th Anniversary of Al-Nakba
• All Out to Support
the Palestinian Resistance to Occupation! Affirm the Right of
Return!
• Indomitable Spirit
of Palestinian Resistance Marks Al-Nakba Commemorations
• Special
Statistical Bulletin on the 65th Anniversary of the Palestinian
Nakba - Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
• The Right of
Return
• Calendar of
Events
May 21, 2013 - No. 62
Alberta Government's Anti-Social Offensive
Oppose Attacks on the Right to Education and the Rights of First Nations!
Education Is a Right! Unite to Affirm the Rights of
All!
• Oppose Bill 26, the
Assurance for Students Act - Kevan Hunter
• Unions Take a Stand
Against Bill 26
• Discussion in the
Legislature on Bill 26
•
Provincial Government
Blackmails Post-Secondary Educational Institutions into Harmful
Cuts - Dougal MacDonald
Oppose Violation of First Nations'
Hereditary, Treaty and Constitutional Rights
• Bill 22, Aboriginal
Consultation Levy Act Imposed on First Nations - Peggy
Morton
• New Bill Assaults First
Nations' Sovereignty
• Statement of Confederacy
of Treaty Six First Nations
Stop Paying the Rich! Increase
Investments in Social Programs!
• Harper Pays Canadian
Natural Resources Limited to Increase Its Profits and Shine Its
Image - George Allen
May 24, 2013 - No. 63
Whose Resources? Our Resources!
Who Decides? We Decide!
• New Forestry
Regime Comes into Force in Quebec
• New Mining
Royalties and Mining Act Announced
• Mining Royalties,
Rent Tax, Mining Rights and Mining Fees - Normand
Fournier
• Quebec Mining
Industry 2011-2013
Workers' Movement
• Truck Drivers
Reject Nation-Wrecking and Concessions - Normand
Chouinard
• Working Conditions
of Quebec Truck Drivers
May 27, 2013 - No. 64
Alberta Progressive Conservative
Policy Convention
• No to Austerity!
Yes to Investments in Social Programs!
• What the People
Had to Say
Education Is a Right! Increase
Investments in Education!
• There Is an
Alternative to the Wrecking of Post-Secondary Education
- Dougal MacDonald Defend the Rights of Workers! Affirm the
Rights of All!
• Alberta Injured
Workers Launch Petition
• Hundreds Rally to
Uphold the Rights of People with Disabilities! - Peggy
Askin
Health Care Is a Right!
• Keep Public
Services Public!
• Extendicare
Workers Hold Rallies to Demand Good-Faith Bargaining -
Peggy Morton
May 28, 2013 - No. 65
• The Crown
in Parliament Generates More Disequilibrium in Canada
- K.C. Adams
Matane Fish Plant Workers
in Gaspésie Forced to Refund EI Benefits
• Harper Government
Eliminating Discretion of EI Staff to Consider Concrete
Employment Situation in Regions - Pierre
Chénier
• Communications
between Unions, Defence Organizations and Lawyers and EI
Officials No Longer Possible
• Number of Workers
Receiving EI Keeps Falling
May 31, 2013 - No. 66
Sovereignty Yes! Annexation No!
Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean Oppose U.S. Interference and
Affirm Their Right to Be!
Defending Cuba's Right to
Independence
• 6th Canadian Network
on Cuba Convention Reaffirms Solidarity and Friendship -
Communique
• Rallies to Free
the Cuban Five
• "5 Days for the
Cuban 5 in Washington DC" Begins
Puerto Rico
• 32nd Anniversary
of Arrest of Oscar Lopez Riviera
Venezuela
• Continued Defence
of Bolivarian Revolution Against Imperialists' Plans for Coup
Colombia
• Agreement Reached
on First Point of Discussion at Permanent Peace Negotiations in
Havana, Cuba
• Joint
Communique
Paraguay
• Important Advance
for Progressive Forces in Election Despite Colorado Party's
Return to Power
JUNE 2013
June 3, 2013 - No. 67
Stop Paying the Rich! Increase
Investments in Social Programs!
• The People of
Alberta Must Decide the Direction of Education - Dougal
MacDonald
Education Is a Right!
• Education Workers
in Hinton Hold Rally
Defend the Rights of All!
• Province Wide
Protests Demand Reversal of Funding Cuts to Persons with
Developmental Disabilities - Peggy Askin
• Seniors' Care Is a
Right, Not a Cost - Rita Soto
There Is an Alternative!
• Discussion on
Alternatives to the Austerity Agenda
- Peggy Morton and K.C. Adams
June 4, 2013 - No. 68
The Crown in Parliament Generates More Disequilibrium in Canada
Harper Parliamentary Secretary Attacks and Insults Public Sector Workers
In the Parliament
• The Crown in
Parliament Generates More Disequilibrium in Canada, Part Two
- K.C. Adams
• Omnibus Bills to
Be Passed Using Omnibus House of Commons - Enver Villamizar
Fighting for the Rights of All
• Atlantic Lobster
Fishermen Wage Mass Actions to Improve Their Conditions
• Global Day of
Action Against Monsanto
• Thousands
Militantly Demonstrate in Britain to Defend National Health
Care
- Workers' Weekly
June 6, 2013 - No. 69
Canada Needs an Anti-War
Government
• Halifax Activists
Mark One Year of Anti-War Pickets - No Harbour for
War
Fighting for the Rights of All
• Canada Post Must
Fulfill Its Obligations to the Pension Plan - Louis
Lang
• Demonstration at
Ontario Ministry of Labour in Defence of Public Sector Workers'
Rights - Christine Nugent
Whose Resources? Our Resources! Who
Decides? We Decide!
• Defeat of Bill 43
to Amend the Mining Act Underscores Need for Public Control over
Natural Resources - Philip Fernandez
June 7, 2013 - No. 70
Attacks on Construction Workers
Increase
• Quebec Construction
Workers Reject Demands for Concessions and Demand Improved
Working Conditions
• Remarks by Donald
Fortin, Spokesman for the Construction Trade Union Alliance
- Excerpts
• Construction
Activity Nation-Wide Reflects Uneven Economic Development
- Jim Nugent
June 10, 2013 - No. 71
Important By-Election in British
Columbia
• Christy Clark Can Be
Defeated in Westside-Kelowna - Charles
Boylan
Harper Government's Americas Strategy
• Merchant of Death
Secures Interests of Canadian Monopolies
• Neo-Liberal Hooks
Sink Deeper into Peru
• Harper in
Colombia
• Peddling
"Security" Equipment in Guatemala
Colombian Peace Negotiations
• Between Heaven and
Hell - Declaration of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia- People's Army (FARC-EP)
4th Anniversary of Coup in Honduras
• Call for
Coordinated Actions - Honduras Solidarity Network
• Parliamentary
Hearings on Human Rights Situation in Honduras - Rights
Action
June 11, 2013 - No. 72
Education Is a Right! Increase Investments in
Education!
• Edmonton High School Students Organize Resistance to Attacks on Education
- Dougal MacDonald
Defend the Rights of All
• Uphold the Right to
Seniors' Care -- No to Redford's Pay the Rich Schemes!
- Peggy Askin
• No to Monopoly Control of
Home Care! Home Care Must Be Publicly Funded and Delivered!
- Rita Soto
• Opposition Builds to Home
Care Cuts
Discussion of Alternatives to Austerity Agenda
• Manipulating the People
Through Fraud - Peggy Morton
June 13, 2013 - No. 73
Canadian Mining Firms' Destructive Practices in the
Americas
• No to Monopoly Right,
Exploitation and Impunity!
• Canadian Firm Fined for
Environmental Infractions in Chile
• Canadian Mining Company
Implicated in Violence in Guatemala - Mining Watch
• Canadian Diplomacy
Supported Deadly Blackfire Mining Project in Mexico
- Upsidedown World
• Anti-Worker Activities of
Canadian Mining Company in Colombia
• Canadian Mining Project
in Panama Changes Hands - Doug Pittman
• World Bank Organizes
Haiti's First Mining Conference
June 14, 2013 - No. 74
Opportunity to Defeat
Neo-Liberal Agenda in British Columbia
• Kelowna Elementary
School Teacher Steps Forward to Challenge Clark in
Westside-Kelowna By-Election - Charles Boylan
• Is Clark Leading
BC over a Liquefied Natural Gas Cliff?
• Nineteen BC
Cabinet Ministers Named - TML Correspondent
June 17, 2013 - No. 75
Education Is a Right! Increase
Investments in Education!
• Edmonton High School
Students Rally for Education - Dougal MacDonald
• What the Students
Had to Say
• Provincial
Underfunding Forces Edmonton Public School Board into Cuts
Defend the Rights of All!
• Demand to Reverse
Funding Cuts to Persons with Developmental Disabilities Gaining
Momentum - Peggy Askin
Takeover of Public Authority by Private
Interests
• What Is Behind the
Firing of the Alberta Health Services Board? - Rita
Soto
• Friends of
Medicare and Unions Speak Out on Firing of Alberta Health
Services Board
Public Right Not Monopoly Right
• Monopoly Right Is
the Cause of Damage to the Natural Environment - George
Allen
June 20, 2013 - No. 76
Fight for the Rights of All
• Quebec Construction
Workers Launch General Strike - Pierre
Chénier
• Workers Reject
Concessions and Defend Their Dignity - Interview, Yves
Ouellet, Spokesman, Construction Trade Union Alliance
• End Air Canada's
Pension Blackmail - New Horizons
• Second National
Day to Uphold Refugees' Right to Health Care
June 21, 2013 - No. 77
National Aboriginal Day
• Demand Governments
Recognize First Nations' Rights and
Nation-to-Nation Relations!
• First Nations
People Call for Escalation of Activities
• June 21 Mass
Gathering on Parliament Hill - Idle No More Ontario
• First Nations in
Action to Affirm Sovereignty and Rights
• High Rates of
Poverty for Aboriginal Children
No to Foreign Aggression in the Name of a Political
Solution!
• Hands off Syria!
Hands Off the Middle East! - Windsor Peace
Coalition
In the Parliament
• The Harper
Conservatives' Anti-Worker Spin About "Jobs Without Workers"
- Jim Nugent
• The Crown in
Parliament Generates More Disequilibrium in Canada, Part
Three
- K.C. Adams
June 24, 2013 - No. 78
BC Liberal Government's
Anti-Social "Ten-Year Peace" Plan
• Teachers Demand Continued
Negotiations Not Ministerial Dictate - Charles
Boylan
Work in By-Election to Defeat Liberals'
Anti-Social Agenda
• Clark Forced to Reverse
Her Rich Pay Hikes to Political Insiders
- TML Correspondent
• Important Opportunity for
BC Working People to Defend Their Interests - Interview,
Carole Gordon, Candidate in Westside-Kelowna By-Election
• Record of Votes in
Westside-Kelowna on May 14
TML Writers/Distributers
• Vancouver Construction
Workers Uplifted by News About Quebec Strike
Discussion
• BC Hydro's Site C Peace
River Project Legacy Agreement -- Let's Discuss
- Joseph Theriault
June 25, 2013 - No. 79
Devastating Southern Alberta Floods
• Salute the Workers and
People of Southern Alberta
Health Care Is a Right!
• Home Care Recipients
Force Redford Government to Take a Step Back
- Rita Soto
Education Is a Right! Increase Investments in Education!
• Post-Secondary
Maintenance Budget Cuts Threaten Layoffs, Privatization and
Contracting Out - Dougal MacDonald
• Provincial Underfunding
Sabotages Edmonton Public School Board Budget
- George Allen
Discussion
• Alternatives to the
Austerity Agenda, Part Two - Peggy Morton and K.C.
Adams
Defend Cuba's Right to Independence and Sovereignty!
• Successful First Visit of
Cuban Consul-General to Alberta
June 27, 2013 - No. 80
Strike of Quebec Construction
Workers
• Government Must Not Support
Monopoly Right Through Back-to-Work Legislation
• United Actions of Workers
from Five Construction Unions Say "No Means No!"
• What the Workers Had to
Say
Demonstrations Across Brazil
• Brazilians Affirm Their
Rights
• The Voice of the People
Must Be Heeded - Renato Rabelo,
Communist Party of Brazil (PcdoB)
• Open Letter to President
Dilma Rousseff from Brazil's Social Movements
• President Meets with
Governors and Mayors to Propose Political Reforms and Increased
Funding for Social Programs
June 28, 2013 - No. 81
Parliament Rises for the
Summer
• Unite in Action to Stop and
Defeat the Harper Government's Anti-Social Agenda
• Climate of Rumours and
Controversy
• Character of This Sitting
of the House
• Senate Rejection of
Anti-Union Private Member's Bill Deepens Crisis of Government
For Your Information
• Legislation Receiving
Royal Assent on June 19
• Note to Readers
JULY 2013
July 8, 2013 - No. 82
Discussion on the
Alberta Floods
• The Need for
Social Solidarity to Block Private Monopoly Interests
• Stand with
Siksika First Nation
• Craven Opportunities
for Private Monopoly Interests
Public Right Yes! Monopoly Right No!
• Call for a
Public Inquiry into Provincial Inaction on Flood Mitigation!
- Dougal MacDonald
• Canadian Pacific
Railway Crash Shows Need for Public Control - George Allen
• Causes of
the Alberta Floods
Uphold the Dignity of Labour
• Workers Lost in
the Shuffle in Flood Relief Efforts - Alberta Federation of
Labour
• Alberta
Federation of Labour Calls for Extended EI Benefits for Flood Victims
July 9, 2013 - No. 83
What It Means
to Be Political in BC By-Election
Movement to Defeat Christy Clark in Westside-Kelowna Gains Momentum
Westside-Kelowna By-Election
• What It Means to Be Political in
the By-Election
• Participate in Politics; Fight
for Renewal!
• Westside-Kelowna Residents Attend
Discussion Forum
• Movement to Defeat Christy Clark
in Westside-Kelowna Gains Momentum
- Charles Boylan
• Peculiarities Arising from
Clark's Dilemma in By-Election - TML Correspondent
• Issues Facing BC and
Westside-Kelowna
• Vote in the By-Election!
July 11, 2013 - No. 84
Lac-Mégantic
Tragedy
• Crime in Lac-Mégantic -
Marxist-Leninist Party of Quebec
• Some Facts
• The Issue of the Air Brakes and
Rail Safety - Interview, Brian Stevens,
National Representative, Canadian Auto Workers
• The Irving Oil Connection
- Nathan
J. Freeman
Letters
• Criminal Neglect Against
Railworkers and
People in Lac-Mégantic - Jack East
• Never Again Lac-Mégantic!
-
Normand Chouinard
July 15, 2013 - No. 85
Public
Right Yes! Monopoly Right No!
• Redford Government Assaults
Health Care Workers' Rights Again
• Home Care Workers and Recipients
Say No to Private Profiteers - Rita Soto
• The Contribution Home Care
Workers and
Patients Make - Peggy Morton
Defend the Rights of
Workers! Uphold the Rights of All!
• Correctional Officers Fired in a
Flagrant
Abuse of Governmental Power - Peggy Askin
Stop Paying the Rich!
• Energy Monopoly Profits in 2012
Second Only to Banks
July 16, 2013 - No. 86
Cabinet
Shuffle Underscores Need to Stop Harper
• Cynical Attempt to Overcome
Legitimacy Crisis with Fraudulent Reset
Consequences of Harper
Government's Cowardly Attacks on the Unemployed
• Regressive Changes Speak Volumes
About Harper Government's "Revitalization"
- Pierre Chénier
• Unemployed Workers' Firm
Conviction to Oppose
Anti-Social Changes - Inteview, France Simard, Coordinator,
Mouvement action chômage, Lac-St-Jean
• Forestry Workers Affirm the Need
for Acceptable Working Conditions - Interview, René
Martel, President, National
Forestry Union
• The Need for EI as a Means to
Maintain and
Increase Employment in the Regions
- Interview, Pierre Cantin, President, Association of
Matane Shrimp Fishers
July 18, 2013 - No. 87
BC By-Election
• By-Election Results Confirm Once
Again the
Need for People's Empowerment
• Results of the Westside-Kelowna
By-Election - TML Corrrespondent
• Organized Opposition to the
Neo-Liberal
Political Agenda Makes Headway
- Charles Boylan
Discussion
• Reflections on the BC Election
and the
Necessity for Democratic Renewal
- Edith Cohen
• The Value of Public Education
Cannot be
Overstated - Alice Rees, Remarks at July 6 Public Forum
July 19, 2013 - No. 88
The Fight
for Arrangements That Recognize Workers' Rights
Opposition
to the Phony U.S. Steel Lockout at Lake Erie
• U.S. Steal's Lying, Bullying and
Extortion Should be Declared Illegal - Local 1005 USW
Rio
Tinto
Alma
• Workers
Take Stock of the Situation
• Fight
Continues to Hold Company to Account - Interview, Hugues
Villeneuve, President, Syndicat
des travailleurs de l'aluminium d'Alma
• Rio
Tinto's Secret Deal and the Situation
Facing Its Electrical Workers - Interview, Pierre Simard,
President, Syndicat des employés d'énergie électrique Québec
July 22, 2013 - No. 89
Whose
Economy? Our Economy! Who Decides?
We Decide!
• Joint Review Panel
Approves Jackpine Mine Expansion Project - Peggy Morton
• Athabasca Chipewyan First
Nation Responds to Approval of Shell's
Jackpine Mine
• Outrageous Claims by the
Harper Government - TML Correspondent
Defend the Rights of
Working People! Affirm the Rights of All!
• Alberta Government Using Claimed
Labour Shortage to Attack Workers
- Dougal MacDonald
Abuse of Power to
Serve Private Interests
• Government of Alberta
Demands Public Schools Facilitate Privatization
- Kevan Hunter
July 24, 2013 - No. 90
Council of the Federation Meeting in
Niagara-on-the-Lake
• Failed Attempts at Reform
Underscore Need for New Constitutional Arrangements
• Federal Dictate over Provincial
Relations Leads to Dogfights over Public Purse
• Ottawa Edges Away from Public
Medicare - Natalie Mehra, Ontario Health Coalition and
Michael McBane, Canadian Health Coalition
July 25, 2013 - No. 91
Fight
for the Dignity of Labour
• How Far Is the Harper
Dictatorship Prepared to Turn Back the Clock on Workers' Rights? -
Jim Nugent
Manufacturing
Yes! Nation-Wrecking No!
• Bombardier Workers Assess What
They Accomplished with the Strike
- Interview, Mario Lévesque, President, Syndicat des
employés de Bombardier Transport La Pocatière
Whose Resources? Our
Resources! Who Decides? We Decide!
• Cliffs Natural Resources Suspends
Work in Ring of Fire - Rob Woodhouse
Call for International
Anti-Imperialist Anti-Colonialist Summit of the Peoples,
Bolivia July 31-August 2, 2013
• In Defence of Human Rights and
Full
Enforcement of International Treaties and Conventions that Regulate
Coexistence Among States
July 26, 2013 - No. 92
60th
Anniversary of Attack on Moncada Barracks
• Long Live Revolutionary Cuba!
Glory to the Martyrs of the Cuban Revolution!
• Cuban People Celebrate Day of
National Rebellion by Taking Up the Revolutionary Tasks of Today
• Raúl Castro Leads Historic
Anniversary Celebration in Santiago de Cuba
• Heads of State Join Celebrations
Sixty Years of
Affirming Independence and the Cause of Peace and Justice
• History Has Rendered Its Verdict
- Isaac Saney, National Spokesperson,
Canadian Network
on Cuba
SUPPLEMENT
• Speech by Fidel Castro
on 50th Anniversary of Attack on Moncada Barracks and Photos from the
Relentless Struggle of the Cuban People
July 29, 2013 - No. 93
Health Care
Is a Right!
• Stop Alberta Government's
Reckless Cuts to Nursing Staff! Fight for Human-Centred Health Care! - Peggy
Morton
• Tell Health Minister Fred Horne
that Disappearing Nursing Jobs Is Simply Not Acceptable! -
United Nurses of Alberta
Education Is a
Right! Increase Investments in Education!
• Athabasca University Faculty and
Tutors Issue Statement Opposing Wholesale Conversion to Call Centre
Model - Dougal MacDonald
• Government of Alberta Releases
Initial Report on Teacher Workload - Kevan Hunter
Defend the Rights of
Workers! Uphold the Rights of All!
• Solidarity with the Fired
Correctional Workers - Peggy Askin
July 30, 2013 - No. 94
Opposition to
Harper Government's Nation-Wrecking
• Health Care Rally at Premier's
Meeting Demands Accountability
Workers Fight for an
Economy that Meets the People's Needs
• Forest Industry at an Impasse
- Interview, Patrick Bouchard, Truck Driver, Forestry
Industry, Lac-St-Jean
• Forestry Workers in Eastern
Quebec Fight for Their Rights - Interview, Georges Verreault, National
Representative, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union,
Bas-Saint-Laurent-Gaspésie
• The Fight for Regional Employment
in Eastern Quebec - Interview, Yannick Proulx, President, Regional
Council, Quebec Workers' Federation,
Bas-Saint-Laurent-Gaspésie-Iles-de-la-Madeleine
AUGUST 2013
August 1, 2013 - No. 95
No
to Superpower Hooliganism! Uphold the Principle of Sovereignty of All
Nations!
• Canada's Role in Organizing
Electoral Coups
in Middle East and North Africa
- Enver Villamizar
• Policy Debate Over Invasion of
Syria
• Kerry Uses Arabs to Bully
Palestinians
- Nicola Nasser, The Palestine Chronicle
United States
• Hunger Strikers Send Greetings to
Supporters
and All People of Conscience
• Challenging Punishment: What the
California
Prisoners' Hunger Strike Tells
Us About Mass Incarceration - Samuel K. Roberts, Associate
Professor of History
and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
• Note to Our Readers
SEPTEMBER 2013
September 3, 2013 - No. 96
Anti-Social
Agenda of Harper Dictatorship
• Parliament to Be Illegitimately
Prorogued
Once Again
• Fraudulent Attempt to "Refresh"
Anti-Social
Agenda
• Harper Government Finances
Plunder of
Canada's North by Mining Monopolies
• Harper to Attend G20 in Russia
For Your Information
• About Prorogation
September 4, 2013 - No. 97
Labour Day 2013
Organized Workers Affirm the Dignity of Labour
CPC(M-L)'s
Labour
Day
Statement
• Fight for the People's
Empowerment! Take a
Stand Against Neo-Liberal Wrecking and for a Pro-Social Direction for
the Economy!
Parades, Picnics and
BBQs
• Organized Workers Affirm the
Dignity of Labour
Oppose Privatization
of Public Services!
• C.D. Howe Institute Attacks
Postal Workers
and the Public Post Office - Louis Lang
September 6, 2013 - No. 98
Education
Is
a
Right!
Increase
Investments
in
Education!
• Continuing the Fight Against
Alberta
Government's
Attacks on Post-Secondary Education
• Why University of Alberta
Academic
Staff Should Not Reopen Their
Collective Agreement - Dougal MacDonald
• How to Increase Investments in
Education
• University of Alberta Support
Staff Say
No to Austerity Agenda - Interview, Rod Loyola, U of A
Non-Academic Staff Association
Alberta's Health Services
Preferential
Inquiry
• The Abuse of Public Authority to
Serve
Private Interests - Peggy Morton
• Who Controls the Helios Wellness
Centre?
• Queue Jumping in Alberta
-
Friends of Medicare, Letter to the Editor
September 10, 2013 - No. 99
12th
Anniversary
of
9/11
• No to U.S. State Terror Against
Syria!
• Russia Puts Forward Way Out for
U.S.
• Oppose Attempts to Hide U.S.
Imperialism's
Crimes Against the Peace
Broad
Opposition
in
U.S.
to an Attack on Syria
• Hands Off Syria!
Condemn
U.S. Justifications
for War! - Voice of Revolution
• No U.S. War On Syria! -
United
National Antiwar Coalition
• No U.S. Military Intervention in
Syria
- Veterans for Peace
• Statement Against Military Force
in Syria - Iraq Veterans Against the War
• Negotiation Is the Only Option
-
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• The Rush to Bomb Syria:
Undermining
International Law and Risking Wider War - Western States
Legal Foundation
• U.S. Military and Intelligence
Officials
Send
Message to
Obama
Canada
• Demonstrations Affirm "Hands
Off Syria!"
September 11, 2013 - No. 100
40th
Anniversary
of
Murderous
U.S.
Coup
d'Etat
in
Chile
• No to U.S. Dirty Wars and Regime
Changes!
Justice for Chile! Hands Off Syria!
• U.S. War President Argues Might
Makes Right
• U.S. Senate Postpones Vote on
Possible Attack
Against Syria
• Interview with Syrian President
Bashar
al-Assad
September 12, 2013 - No. 101
15th Anniversary of Unjust Imprisonment
of Anti-Terrorist Cuban Five
• No to U.S.-Backed Terrorism
Against Cuba!
Free the Cuban Five Now!
• Worldwide Events to Free the
Cuban Five --
Join In!
• Uncovering the Buried Story of
the Cuban 5
-- New Book by Canadian Journalist Stephen Kimber
• Homerun for the Cuban Five
- Juan
Morales Agüero, Juventud Rebelde
• What Else Can We Do for the Five?
(Excerpt) - Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, CubaDebate
In Memoriam
• Saul Landau's Unique Contribution
to the
Struggle to Free the Cuban 5
• Bernie Dwyer, Tireless Fighter
for the Cuban
5
September 16,
2013 - No. 102
The
Need
to
Stop Harper Grows
• Parliament Prorogued Even as
Democracy Week
Gets Underway
• Country-Wide Rallies Stand Up for
Science - Evidence for Democracy
Oppose
Threats to Use
Force to Sort Out Problems! Hands Off Syria!
• President Obama Issues More
Threats
as U.S.
and Russia Reach Deal
• Bishkek Declaration Opposes Use
of
Force
• President al-Assad's Interview
with
Rossiya
24 TV
For
Your
Information
• Convention on Chemical Weapons
September 17, 2013 - No. 103
Status
and
Rights
for
All
Workers!
• Oppose the Harper Government's
Attacks on
Workers!
• Unacceptable Practice of
Approving Temporary
Foreign
Workers at
Minimum Wage - Peggy Askin
Education Is a Right!
Increase Investments in Education!
• University of
Alberta
Staff Continue to Oppose Attacks on Their Wages
and Benefits - Dougal MacDonald
• University Presidents Join
Alberta Premier's
China Sales Team Serving Energy Monopolies - George
Allen
Affirm the Rights of
Seniors
• Seniors and Their Allies Rally
Against Cuts to Services - Peggy Morton
• Waterford Seniors' Home Workers
Win First
Collective Agreement
September 20, 2013 - No. 104
Nova
Scotia
Election
October 8
• Elections Called to Sort Out
Contradictions
in the Ranks of the Rich
• Irvings' New Halifax Shipyard and
the
Militarization of Life and the Economy
- Nathan J. Freeman
• Halifax Weekly Anti-War Pickets
September 24, 2013 - No. 105
Stand
Up
for
Science!
• Cross Canada Rallies Defend
Science Against
Harper Government's
Anti-Social Offensive
• The Canadian War on Science: A
Long,
Unexaggerated, Devasting Chronological Indictment - John
Dupuis, ScienceBlogs
September 25, 2013 - No. 106
Defend
the Right to Security in Retirement
• Defend the Pensions We Have!
Fight for
Pensions for All!
• Sweeping Changes Announced to
Alberta's
Public Service
Pensions
- TML Correspondent
• The Pension "Deficit" and the
Wrecking of
Public Services - Peggy Morton
• For Your Information: Facts about
Alberta's
Public Pension Plans
Health Care Is a Right!
• Restructuring of Alberta Health
Services to
Serve Private Interests - Rita Soto
• Appointment of New "Official
Administrator"
of Alberta Health Services and the Politicizing of Private Interests
Public Right Not
Monopoly Right!
• Alberta's 1993 Liquor Store
Privatization
Hinged on
Attacking Workers' Livelihoods
- George Allen
September 27, 2013 - No. 107
145th Anniversary of Grito de Lares
Uprising
• Puerto Ricans Celebrate Birth of
Independence Movement
• Order of Solidarity Delivered to
Political
Prisoner Oscar López Rivera
U.S.
Interferes with Right of Venezuelan
Presidential Aircraft to Fly Over Puerto Rico
• Oppose U.S. Imperialist
Hooliganism and
Violation of Laws and Norms Governing International Relations!
Worldwide Solidarity with the Cuban Five
• 15 Years of Injustice! 15 Years
of Valiant
Struggle! - Isaac Saney, Canadian Network on Cuba
• To the Conscience of the World
and the U.S.
People - Message from the Cuban Five
• Cuban Patriots Grateful for
Solidarity of
Cuba
and the World
Coming Events
• Toronto: When Africa Called, Cuba
Answered - International Symposium on Cuba and Southern
African
Liberation, September 27 & 28
• Halifax: Roundtable Discussion --
ALBA: Latin
America's New Dawn
• Montreal: Exhibition of Cartoons
by Gerardo
Hernández
• Vancouver: 95th Monthly Picket
to Free the
Five
• Ottawa: Public Meeting on the
Revolutions in
Latin America
• Holguín, Cuba: 9th International
Colloquium for Liberation of Cuban Five and
Against Terrorism
September 30, 2013 - No. 108
• Ontario
Labour Relations Board Reaches Unacceptable Decision on Firing of Vale
Inco Workers
- Steve Rutchinski
• Ontario Government Stonewalls
Miners' Just Demand for Safety Inquiry
• Ford Motor's Extortion Results in
Big Payoff
OCTOBER 2013
October 1, 2013 - No. 109
General Debate at 68th UN
General Assembly
• The Need to Reform
the UN and Security Council Has Never Been Greater
• Condemn Canada's
Warmongering and Attacks on Diplomacy at UN!
Who Said What
• Pressure to
Legitimize Use of Force in International Relations
• The Need to Uphold
the Sovereignty and Equality of Nations and Renew the UN
• How to Tackle
Syrian Situation
• Statement of
Syria
October 2, 2013 - No. 110
Public Right Yes, Monopoly Right
No!
• Alberta Municipal
Elections and the Defence of Public Right
Stop Paying the Rich! Fight for a Modern
Definition of Taxation!
• Oppose the New
Attempt to Float an Alberta Sales Tax - George Allen
Education Is a Right! Increase
Investments in Education!
• Athabasca
University Support Staff Fight Temporary Layoffs - Dougal
MacDonald
• Letter to the
Editor: University of Alberta's Subservience to the Energy
Monopolies Exposed Once Again - An Edmonton Educator
No to the Austerity Agenda!
• Friends of
Michener Centre in Red Deer Extend Their Fight Against Closure to
the Courts - Peggy Morton
October 7, 2013 - No. 111
Alberta's All-Out Privatization Drive
•
Governments Must Defend
Public Right, Not Monopoly Right
OurLRT Organizing to
Stop Privatization of Mass Transit
•
How Accounting Fraud Is
Used to Claim P3 Advantage
•
Redford Regime's New
Alberta Institute Will Privatize Research for the Monopolies
- Dougal MacDonald
•
Flood Devastation Used to
Pay the Rich - George Allen
•
Privatization of Edmonton
Hospital Labs -- Another Pay-the-Rich Scheme
- Rita Soto
Discussion
•
Privatization
Agenda to Pay the Rich - Peggy Morton
October 8, 2013 - No. 112
Workers' Struggles Develop the Opposition to the Anti-Social Offensive
• CN Workers'
Defence of Their Health and Safety also Defends Passenger and
Community Safety - Interview, Roland Hackl, General
Chairman, Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, Western Canada
• Government
Responsibility to Guarantee Safe Transport of Oil -
Interview, Roland Lefort, Unifor Local 707-A, Oil Sands Workers,
Fort McMurray, Alberta
• Canada Post
Accelerates Attacks on Public Post Office
and Postal Workers - Louis Lang
• Workers at Mercy
of Decision to Close Schneiders Plant in Kitchener - Dan
Cerri
October 10, 2013 - No. 113
Lift the U.S. Blockade of Cuba!
End U.S. Impunity!
• UN General Assembly
Prepares to Vote to End U.S. Blockade of Cuba
• Cuba Remembers
Victims of Terrorism on 37th Anniversary of Bombing of Cuban
Airliner over Barbados
• Federation of
Cuban Women Delegation Receives Warm Welcome in Toronto
SUPPLEMENT
• Necessity of Ending
the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade Imposed by the
United States of America Against Cuba - Report by Cuba on
UN General Assembly Resolution 67-4 July 2013
October 11, 2013 - No. 114
250th Anniversary of the Royal
Proclamation of 1763
• Idle No More
Reiterates Call for Nation-to-Nation Relations
• UN Special
Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples Visits Canada
End the Killings of Aboriginal Women and
Girls!Take Back the Night!
• Walking With Our
Sisters Exhibit Opens in Edmonton - Mary Joyce
• October 18
National Day of Action to End Violence Against Aboriginal Women
and Girls in Canada
• Sisters in Spirit
Vigils Held
• Take Back the
Night 2013
• Note to
Readers
October 15, 2013 - No. 115
Growing Opposition to the Harper Anti-Social
Offensive
•
Say No! to the Harper
Dictatorship
•
Conservatives' Convention
Resolutions Declare Continued War on Workers and Their
Organizations - Peggy Morton
•
Oppose Harper
Dictatorship's Anti-Science Offensive - Dougal MacDonald
•
Construction Workers
Demand Job Security and Upholding of Wage and Safety
Standards - Peggy Askin
•
Letter to the Editor
Education Is a Right!
•
What's at Stake in
Alberta's School Trustee Elections - Kevan Hunter
•
Alberta Government's Further Concentration of Power in Education to Serve Private Interests
Coming Events
•
Actions and Events at
Conservative Party National Policy Convention
October 17, 2013 - No. 116
British Columbia
• Town Hall Meeting in
Courtenay Defends Right to Health Care for All
• Health Care for
All Is a Right! - Presentation by Barbara Biley
• Neo-Liberal
Government Is Wrecking K-12 Public Education - 2012 Brief of
the B.C. Teachers' Federation to Select Standing Committee
Coming Events
• Actions and Events
at Conservative Party National Policy Convention
October 18, 2013 - No. 117
Political Economy
• Readers'
Forum
• The Law of
Added-Value - K.C. Adams
October 21, 2013 - No. 118
• All Out to
Support the Just Demands of the Elsipogtog First Nation! - Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Elsipogtog
First Nation's Defence of Rights Met with State Violence
• Widespread
Emergency Actions Denounce State Violence and Monopoly Right
• UN Special
Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples Says
Canada Faces Crisis Situation
October 22, 2013 - No. 119
Harper Government's Second
Speech from the Throne
• Exercise in Smoke
and Mirrors
• Harper Government
Shows Indifference to the Economic Insecurity
of Working People - Workers' Forum
Concession Bargaining and Attacks
on
Public Sector Pensions Denounced
• 26th National
Convention of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Opens in
Quebec City - Louis Lang
For Your Information
• Details from the
Harper Throne Speech
October 23, 2013 - No. 120
U.S. President Prepares for
Executive Takeover
• Obama Says Congress
"Encouraged Our Enemies" - Voice of Revolution
• Funding Law
Resolves Nothing - Buffalo Forum
For Your Information
• U.S. Federal
Government Debt
The Need to Humanize the Social and
Natural Environment
• Massive Spill of
Fracked Oil Covered Up by Government Shutdown
October 25, 2013 - No. 121
Oppose Harper Dictatorship's Anti-Social
Offensive
•
Say No! to the Harper
Dictatorship at the National Policy Convention
•The People and Not the
Monopolies Must Control Rail Transportation
- George Allen
Fight for Public Control Over Health Care and
Education
•
Opposition
Grows to Privatization
of Lab Services in Edmonton
•
Workers at Athabasca
University Continue to Fight Back - Dougal MacDonald
• Fraudulent Argument About
Lack of Money for Education - Letter to the Editor
Clear Need to Outlaw Politicized Project Reviews
• Alberta Government
Found in Contempt of Its Own Laws in Oil Sands
Project Review - Peggy Morton
October 29, 2013 - No. 122
Conservative Party National
Policy Convention
• Join the Work to
Defeat the Harper Dictatorship!
• Defeat Harper in
His Own Backyard
Public Right not Monopoly Right!
• Canada-Europe Free
Trade Agreement Attacks Alberta Dairy Producers
- Dougal MacDonald
Rights and Status for All Workers!
• Harper Government
Seeks to Reinstate Fast-Track System for
Temporary Foreign Workers - Peggy Askin
Stand Up for Science!
• Edmonton
Scientists and Allies Oppose Harper Attacks on Science
October 30, 2013 - No. 123
Step up the Work to Oppose the Anti-Social Offensive
• Harper Throne Speech
a Sop to the Resource Monopolies and Wrong Direction for the
Country - K.C. Adams
• More Monopoly
Blackmail by Cliffs Natural Resources - Jim Nugent
• Continuing Court
Action Against Saskatchewan Government Anti-Union Laws
• Vigorous
Demonstration in Support of Quebec City Municipal Workers
• Determined
Opposition to the Decision to Repatriate Dominicans of
Haitian Descent - Christine Dandenault
• Stop Worker Deaths
in Bangladesh - Pritilata Waddedar
October 31, 2013 - No. 124
UN Votes Against U.S.
Blockade
of Cuba
• Massive
International Condemnation of Blockade for 22nd Consecutive
Year
Cuba’s Experience in Affirming the
Rights of All
• An Evening with
Mariela Castro Espin - Christine Dandenault
Peoples of Latin America Oppose
Neo-Liberal Offensive
• Mexican People
Step Up Fight Against Neo-Liberal Policies of
President Peña Nieto Government and Allies -
Claude Brunelle
• Argentine People
Win Another Victory in Mid-Term Elections
Free the Cuban Five
• International
Figures Call for Freedom for Five Cubans Imprisoned
in U.S. for 15 Years - Voices for the Five
• Coming Events -- Cuba and the
Cuban Five
NOVEMBER 2013
November 1, 2013 - No. 125
Manufacturing Yes! Nation-Wrecking No!
• Time for a New
Direction for the Economy
• Are We a Country
or Not!? - Rolf Gerstenberger
National Convention of Canadian Union of Public Employees
• The Need for New
Arrangements - Louis Lang
Housing Crisis in Nunavik
• Hold the Harper
Government Accountable!
Britain
• Racist Immigration
Bill Passes Second Reading - Workers' Weekly
November 4, 2013 - No. 126
Conservative National Policy Convention
Calgary Actions Say No! to Harper Dictatorship
October 31
• Picket
and Rally Express Many Reasons to Defeat Harper
November 1
• Idle
No More March and Rally -- The Canada We Want
November 2
• Public Service Alliance Holds Spirited Rally
November 7, 2013 - No. 127
The End of Canadian Steelmaking
• Government
Intervention in the Economy
The Rights of Quebec City Municipal
Workers
• Mayor's Coup
Against Municipal Employees - Pierre Chénier
• Municipal Workers
Demand Proper Negotiations - Interview, Daniel Simard,
Acting President, Quebec City Blue Collar Union
November 8, 2013 - No. 128
Public Right, Not Monopoly
Right!
• Oppose the Harper
Dictatorship's Sell-Out CETA Agreement
• Biggest Scandal
Yet: Harper Concludes Sell-Out of Canada in the
Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement - National
Farmers Union
Whose Resources? Our Resources!
• Alberta and BC
Premiers Deliver for the Energy Oligarchs - Peggy
Morton
• BC and Alberta
Release Terms of Reference for Energy Working Group
Education Is a Right! Increase
Investments in Education!
• Alberta's
Education Workers are Not a Cost - Dougal MacDonald
November 11, 2013 - No. 129
Governments Must Uphold Public
Right, Not Monopoly Right
• Blackmail by Alcoa
and Other Aluminum Monopolies -- A Challenge for Quebec
• Questionable Data
Provided by Alcoa - Normand Fournier
• Hydroelectricity
Surplus in Quebec
Colombian Peace Talks
• Second Agreement
Signed Between Revolutionary Armed Forces and Government
Paraguayans Reject Neo-Liberal Reforms
• Organized
Resistance to All-Out Privatization of Public Services
Coming Event
• Outaouais: Cuba
and the Defence of Its Sovereignty
November 12, 2013 - No. 130
Preparations for Imperialist
Aggression and War
• NATO Exercises
Target Russia
• NATO-US-Turkey War
Games Off the Syrian Coastline - Michel Chossudovsky
• Protesters
Block NATO Supplies in Pakistan
• NATO Student
Conference in Belgrade Condemned
U.S. Double Standard on Terrorism
• Call Tian'anmen
Attack What It Was: Terrorism - Xinhua Commentary
90th Anniversary of Turkish Republic
• Mass Celebrations
Affirm Sovereignty
Greek People Reiterate "No Means No
• General Strike
Against Austerity Measures
November 13, 2013 - No. 131
Twitter's First Day of Trading
• The Necessity for an
Alternative
• Class Privilege
Destroys the Socialized Economy
November 15, 2013 - No. 132
Fight for the Dignity of Labour!
U.S. Steel's Decision to
Shutdown Steel-Making Operations in Canada
• Abuse of Power
- Rolf Gerstenberger, President, Local 1005 USW
• Voices Raised Over
U.S. Steel's Attack Against Hamilton- Local 100 USW
• Hamilton City
Council Calls for U.S. Steel to Meet with City
• USW Leaders
Express Concern for Canadian Steel Production
Forestry
• Situation of
Workers in Baie-Comeau - Interview, Bernard Plante,
President, Unifor Local 22, Resolute Forest Products Outardes
Sawmill
Pensions Are a Right
• Public Sector
"Pension Crisis" and Security in Old Age - Interview with
a Health Care Worker
Consequences of Anti-Social Offensive
• Food Bank Use
Reaches Near Record Levels - Serge Lachapelle
Coming Events
• Outaouais: Cuba
and the Defence of Its Sovereignty
November 18, 2013 - No. 133
Fall Session of Alberta Legislature
• Neo-Liberal Wrecking
Underscores Need for Democratic Renewal
• Bills Before the
Legislature
• Protecting Alberta's
Environment Act Protects Private Interests - Peggy
Morton
• Nothing Modern About the
Modernizing Regional Governance Act - Rita Soto
Health Care Is a Right!
• Alberta Nurses Stand Up
For Their Rights and Dignity - Peggy Askin
Education Is a Right! Increase Investments in Education!
• The Fight for
Post-Secondary Education Will Not Be Diverted by the Alberta
Government's Deceptive Manoeuvres - Dougal
MacDonald
November 19, 2013 - No. 134
Devastation in Philippines from Typhoon Haiyan
• The Philippines Needs Help
-- Not Aircraft Carriers, Marines or Weapons!
• People Need Food, Meds,
Not U.S. War Arsenal - Kilusang Mayo Uno
• Oppose the Militarization
of Aid in the Name of the Canadian People!
• Harper Government Hopes
to Profit from Human Misery
• An Appeal for Immediate
Assistance and Support - Migrante Canada
November 20, 2013 - No. 135
Demand Immediate Withdrawal of
Regressive Employment Insurance Changes
• Negative Effects of
Employment Insurance Reform Continue to Take a Toll
- Pierre Chénier
Venezuela
• President Maduro
Goes on the "Offensive" with Package of Economic Reforms
- Ryan Mallett-Outtrim, Venezuela Analysis-
• Document Evidences
Destabilization Plan Against Venezuela - Eva Golinger,
Postcards from the Revolution
November 22, 2013 - No. 136
Uphold Cuba's Right to Be! Free the Cuban Five!
• Ninth
International Colloquium to Free Cuban Patriots Unjustly
Imprisoned in U.S.
• Solidarity Meeting
in the Outaouais: Cuba and the Defence of Its Sovereignty
• Celebrities Speak
with One Voice to Ask Obama to Liberate the Five
• Strategic Military
Exercise Bastión 2013 Underway Throughout Cuba
• Official Note on
Economic and Social Policy Guideline No. 55
• Cuba Re-Elected to
UN Human Rights Council
• Coming Event: 97th
Monthly Protest Action to Free the Five in Vancouver
November 25, 2013 - No. 137
Urgent Need to Stop Paying the Rich and Uphold
Workers' Rights
• GM Bailout Proves U.S. and
Canadian States Serve Narrow Private Interests
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Representatives of 132
Countries Walk Out in Disgust
• Canada Leads the Way to
Climate Disaster at COP19 (Excerpt) - Stephen Leahy,
DeSmog Canada
November 26, 2013 - No. 138
Monopoly Right No! Public Right
Yes!
• Supreme Court
Strikes Down Alberta's Privacy Law
• Red Deer Rallies
to Keep Michener Centre Open: "Don't Evict Our Most
Vulnerable!" - Peggy Askin
• Edmonton Rally
Says Keep Our Labs Public!
• Alberta
Universities Act as Handservants of Private Foreign
Monopolies
- Dougal MacDonald
November 28, 2013 - No. 139
Political Affairs
• Federal By-Election
Results
Fight for the Dignity of Labour
• Important Events
in Workers' Lives
Halifax War Conference
• Haligonians
Denounce NATO War Conference
Coming Events
• Halifax: Syria,
Iran and the Pivot of War
• Rally for Aviation
Safety at Transport Minister's Office
• Toronto: Panel
Discussion on Reviving Public Science in Canada
• Halifax:
Fundraiser for Elsipogtog First Nation
• Demonstration
Against Harper's Toronto Visit for Zionist Fundraiser
DECEMBER 2013
December 2, 2013 - No. 140
Oppose Alberta's Anti-Worker Legislation!
• Affirm the Right to Say No!
to Unacceptable Wages and Working Conditions!
• Bill 45: Public Sector
Services Slave Labour Act
• Workers Rally at Legislature to
Kill the Bills
• Government Refusal to
Recognize Rights - Peggy Morton
• Defending the Public
Interest - Peggy Askin
• Teachers Uphold Public
Education, Not Redford's Wrecking of Public Services
- Kevan Hunter
December 3, 2013 - No. 141
Urgent Need to Hold Harper Government to Account
• Canadian Involvement in
the GM Bailout
• Airline Workers Present
Conservatives with Petition
• Stephen Harper to
Undertake First Official Visit to Israel - Nathan J.
Freeman
Quebec's Crisis-Ridden New Forestry Regime
• Forestry Workers
Protest Degradation of Working Conditions
• The Government Chose
Not to Improve the Law - Interview, Ubald Desgagné,
President, Unifor Local 3000-Q
Coming Event
• Toronto: Injured
Workers 22nd Annual Christmas Demonstration at Ministry of
Labour - Ontario Network of Injured Workers' Groups
December 5, 2013 - No. 142
Legislative Endorsement of
State-Organized Force and
Violence Against Public Sector Workers
• The Alberta
Legislature Is Committing a Crime
• Rallies Across
Alberta Say No! to Bills 45 and 46
• Redford Government
in Contempt of Constitutional Cornerstone of Responsible
Government - Peggy Morton
December 6, 2013 - No. 143
In Memoriam
• Former President of South
Africa Nelson Mandela Passes Away
33rd Anniversary of Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
• Montreal Event
Celebrates Work to Build a Bright Future in El Salvador - Fernand Deschamps
Honduras
• Another Crass U.S.
Electoral Coup - Claude Brunelle
Holguín, Cuba, November 17, 2013
• Declaration of Ninth
International Colloquium for the Cuban Five
December 9-27, 2013 - Nos. 144-145
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