La Presse and the Montreal Gazette each carried articles today about the three low-level actions carried out in Montreal’s working class Hochelaga Maisonneuve neighbourhood over the past week. Remember everyone: Play safe. Don’t talk to the cops. Don’t guess who is doing what. Don’t ask questions none of us need …
A comrade sent me the following article about the capture of some people trying to re-establish the Red Brigades in Italy. It’s from the Wall Street Journal, and so bound to be neither sympathetic nor necessarily even accurate, but nevertheless worth a quick read. For more on the historic Red …
Pauline Marois: white woman on a mission On October 18 Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois proposed a new piece of legislation, Bill 195, the “Quebec Identity Act.” This piece of legislation would create two classes of citizen within Quebec. You would have Canadian citizens, and then within this group you …
The first in a series of installments about the Red Army Faction, specifically their 1977 campaign which led to the “German Autumn”… Seven Years of Struggle Against the State The Red Army Faction had, by this time, engaged in a campaign of armed struggle for seven years, beginning with the …
The following is a good article by Justin Podur, posted on the Znet site yesterday, explaining the State’s campaign of persecution against Mohawk activist Shawn Brant: On August 30, about two weeks before Canada became one of only four countries to vote against a UN declaration on indigenous rights, Tyendinaga …
Juju Factory, 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 97 min, Dir. Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo – France – Belgium. Warning: There are spoilers in this movie review! A humourous and super-clever social commentary on… exile and migration? Belgian colonialism? racism in Europe? the psychology of the …
Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, recently announced the arrival of XXIst Century Socialism. This declaration, although greeted with great enthusiasm, left a residue of confusion. Since Chavez didn’t discuss XXIst Century Socialism during his recent Presidential campaign, and since there are virtually no public theoretical documents defining this new Socialist …
It’s been a while, and she’s obviously back home now, but here’s another dispatch from my comrade who recently went to Palestine:> i didn’t make it to lesbian and gay pride, ubiquitously known as “pride,” this year in toronto. that was the date of my return to town. i had …
Tomorrow is the National Aboriginal Day of Action, and it’s something you will not have read about on this blog so far. Which is just because there’s to much to say, and i’m likely not the person to say it, mainly because i’m not on top of it all! For …
Two laboratory assistants worked in the genetic research labat Tehran’s Royan Institute, a jewel of Iran’s science program. Not to give readers the wrong impression, but the Revolutionary Communist Party (usa) has a useful response to the International Socialists’ line on Islamophobia on their Revolution dot com website: U.S. Imperialism, …