People's Voice

Public sector workers in NB win victory over austerity

Unions set higher bar as Higgs’ back to work order fails to break unity and solidarity PV Atlantic Bureau On November 13, the Government of New Brunswick (GNB) and the CUPE NB Centralized Bargaining Team came to an agreement for a wage offer and [...]

Why I am celebrating 78 years since the founding of Socialist Yugoslavia

By Ivan Stoiljkovic On November 29, 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, a beautiful, big and strong socialist Yugoslavia was established in the town of Jajce in central Bosnia. It was established by the Antifascist Council for the National [...]

Business gets $7 billion, workers get hosed

Editorial Emploiyment Insurance On October 21, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland confirmed what workers across Canada had feared – the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) was coming to an end on October 23. It wasn’t much of a surprise. For weeks [...]

OFL Convention: labour and the working class are at a crossroads

PV Labour Bureau As far back as the 16th century, people said “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” When it comes to the working class in Ontario, labour leadership has been led many times to the rivers of class struggle [...]

Solidarity with the Sudanese people against the military coup d’état

PV staff In the early morning of October 25, sections of the Sudanese military and remnants of the regime of deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir seized control of the country and dissolved the transitional government. Immediately, the Sudanese [...]

Metro Days of Action – 25 years on and still lessons to heed

By Dave McKee Friday, October 25, 1996. I got up very early – around 4 in the morning – and called a cab because Toronto’s transit system was down. As I made my way through the city’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose [...]

Maurice Bishop and the New Jewel Movement projected a North-South relationship outside the bonds of global neocolonialism

By Owen Schalk nearly ten years later look at me here analysing still distraught and debating sympathising synthesising regretting and remembering and time just passing “Nearly Ten Years Later (For Grenada)” by Merle [...]