Evo Morales’ message of global solidarity
Subscribe to our free e-newsletter HERE. This piece was originally published on Richard Fidler’s blog, Life on the Left. The Summit of the Group of 77 plus China, marking the…
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Climate change a central issue at upcoming Peoples’ Social Forum
A version of this article was first published on Fidler’s blog, Life on the Left. An important meeting of environmental activists is to be held in Montréal on June 6…
Quebec election: a seismic shift within the independence movement?
A version of this article was first published on Fidler’s blog, Life on the Left. The defeat of the Parti Québécois and the election of a federalist Liberal party government…
Eight challenges facing Latin American integration and a new role for Asia
A debate is opening up in Latin America over the future of the movement for continental political and economic integration. It is spurred in part by the growing number of…
Eight challenges facing Latin American integration and a new role for Asia
A debate is opening up in Latin America over the future of the movement for continental political and economic integration. It is spurred in part by the growing number of…
Québec Solidaire congress reaffirms the party’s independence from the neoliberal parties
I had to balance my agenda this past weekend (May 3-5) between two events: the congress of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, held here in Ottawa;…
Québec Solidaire congress reaffirms the party’s independence from the neoliberal parties
I had to balance my agenda this past weekend (May 3-5) between two events: the congress of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, held here in Ottawa;…
Paul Rose’s tortuous path in search of Quebec liberation
Paul Rose, Quebec sovereigntist and socialist, died March 14 in Montréal, following a stroke. He was 69. Notorious for his participation in the 1970 kidnapping and death of a Quebec…
The NDP, poised for power but to what effect?
Fifty years after its founding, the New Democratic Party swept to Official Opposition status in Ottawa on May 2, 2011, propelled by the “Orange wave” in Québec where it captured…
‘Quebec education summit – a public relations operation’
Following a meeting with Quebec premier Pauline Marois, the ASSÉ, the militant wing of the Quebec student movement, announced February 13 that it will boycott the Summit on post-secondary education…
Whither the Quebec left and student movement after the ‘Maple Spring’?
The 2013 edition of the annual Socialist Register, a valuable publication, is devoted to “The Question of Strategy.” It contains 19 articles by more than 20 authors on the Occupy…
Pipeline politics
Petroleum giant Enbridge Inc. has taken huge strides in recent weeks to complete its plan to transport tar sands oil to eastern Canada and from there to foreign markets. Already…
Quebec student leader convicted in outrageous political trial
Quebec student leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois was convicted November 1 of contempt of court for publicly criticizing a court injunction issued during last spring’s student strike. The injunction ordered the strikers…
Quebec nationalist leader critiques PQ’s anti-immigrant ‘charter of exclusion’
As I mentioned in my report on the Quebec election, among the issues championed by the Parti québécois was that of strengthening Quebecois identity, focused around the PQ demand for…
Major victory for Quebec students, environmental activists
Their demonstrations have shaken Quebec in recent months, and yesterday students and environmentalists won major victories. At her first news conference as premier, Pauline Marois announced that her Parti Québécois…
Quebec’s election – an initial balance sheet
The results of the September 4 general election in Quebec produce mixed reactions among supporters of all the major parties. The pro-sovereignty Parti Québécois becomes the government, and PQ leader…
Why the silence on Ottawa’s role in the Quebec student strike?
The following article draws attention to an important issue that has been largely overlooked in the Quebec student strike. The author, Pierre Graveline, is a well-known journalist, editor and publisher,…
Charest declares war on Quebec’s students
“It’s a declaration of war on the student movement,” said Martine Desjardins, leader of the FEUQ. “They’ve just told the young people that everything they have done, everything they have…
Defiant Quebec students reject shabby government offer
Quebec college and university students are now in the 13th week of their militant province-wide strike while voting by overwhelming majorities to reject a government offer that met none of…
Government ends negotiations with Quebec’s striking students
On Wednesday, April 25, Education minister Line Beauchamp abruptly ended the negotiations with the student leaders to which she had reluctantly agreed two days earlier — before they had even…