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Back From The Grave? Secret TPP Talks Resume in Toronto

High level negotiators from 11 countries met at an undisclosed location behind closed doors in Toronto in an attempt to resuscitate the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Sisters Stalled In the Trades

Forty years ago, the percentage of women in the building trades was 3%. Today, the percentage of women is... 3%.

Canada’s Wealthy Tax-Dodgers Write Off Incomes

More and more upper-income earners in Canada are taking advantage of allowable deductions to avoid paying income taxes.

Greed Kills: The Westray Disaster

May 9 marked the 25th anniversary of the Westray disaster in Nova Scotia, where an underground methane explosion killed 26 coal miners in 1992.

Back Off Threats Against DPRK

Threats of war and aggression against sovereign states, including the DPRK, are completely outside the rules of international law.

Break From Status Quo, Urges Young Communist Candidate

An interview with Tyson Strandlund, Communist Party of BC candidate in the May 9 British Columbia election

Austerity, Fascism and Political Upheavals in France

Front National's nationalist deviation of the popular rejection of the EU, NATO and free trade; its xenophobic, Islamophobic and racist rhetoric, as well as social demagogy, constitute a dangerous poisonous mix.

Syriza Yields to EU Creditors Over Pension Cuts

Greece capitulated on May 2 to eurozone creditors’ demands for more cuts the day after cross-country May Day rallies organized by PAME.

The Spanish Civil War – Betrayal In Barcelona

Tom Sibley of Morning Star describes how the Spanish Popular Unity movement splintered culminating in the tragedy of the Barcelona May Day events

Russian Congress of Canada Calls for Investigation of Odessa Tragedy

This letter was sent to Canadian MPs on May 1 by the Russian Congress of Canada