R.F., a union activist in Quebec, on the strengths and limits of recent strikes by that province’s public-sector workers – one of the largest surges of labour militancy in the history of the Canadian state. Translated by Nathan Rao.
Marcel Nelson on successful tenant organizing in a brutal rental market.
Brian McDougall on possibilities and pitfalls after the rank-and-file activist takeover of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees' elected leadership in December 2023.
David Camfield on how we should understand the working class today, and why that understanding matters for building solidarity and power.
James Hutt on organizing in Canada’s labour movement to advance the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Blair Attard-Frost on resistance to artificial intelligence, backlashes against the governance of AI systems, and possibilities for bottom-up AI governance led by communities and workers.
kate klein and griffin epstein on challenging the labour movement to take the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and disability justice seriously, and on alternative modes of labour organizing when traditional forms fall short.
Emma Bainbridge speaks with Norman Nawrocki about his new book Red Squared Montreal, a fictional chronicle of the 2012 student strike.
Brian McDougall on the contradictions and lessons of the 2023 PSAC general strike, the largest strike by a single union in Canadian history.
John Clarke on the need to move beyond the demobilizing compromise between capital and organized labour that developed in the post-war period, with its rules of engagement that no longer serve the working class.