Recent confirmation of state surveillance of pro-Indigenous sovereignty mobilization by mainstream media have raised a lot of concerns among activists in Ottawa and elsewhere. What we have learned so far is that the federal police forces, the RCMP, were actively spying on the anti-colonial Reoccupation mobilization around Canada Day this year, both while it was […]
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May Day 2017 Roundup
Annual May Day mobilizations provide a number of opportunities for revolutionary communists. They’re an opportunity for us to put revolutionary politics front-and-centre in the minds of workers and oppressed people, to commemorate the history of revolutionary struggles which continue to present the best hope for the future, and to take stock of the state of […]
Jordan B Petersen and the Fascist foothold in Canadian Academia
Having thrown itself headlong into the struggle to confront, expose, and disarm fascism and misogyny, the MER-RSM in Ottawa and their comrades were successful in shutting down the screening of the MRA funded The Red Pill at Mayfair Theater. The anti-Muslim demonstration (organized by the Soldiers of Odin, an organization with documented Neo-Nazi ties) on […]
RSM-Sudbury Targeted by Police Repression, but Continues to Organize!
http://mer-rsm.ca/rsm-sudbury-targeted-by-police-repression/ (January 31st, 2017) Since the string of revolutionary street art began to appear around town on Monday of last week and the March Against School Closures on Tuesday January 24th, the police have intensified their attacks on the Sudbury chapter of the Revolutionary Student Movement (RSM-Sudbury). A small group of RSM supporters were chased […]
Labour Law fails to protect workers
A series of government “blitz” investigations found that the vast majority of employers in Ontario are violating the Employment Standards Act. In 78% of the 304 workplaces investigated in January, workers were forced to work illegally long hours, were denied overtime and holiday pay, and went without vacations or “pay in lieu”. All of these […]
Black Lives Matter demands removal of pigs from Pride events
On July 3, the annual Pride march in Toronto was the biggest yet. And there was something a bit different this year: Black Lives Matter injected politics in a real way to the march. While there are many who have tried to change in some ways the corporate and state influence over Pride, those who […]
Steel City Workers’ Defence Network
The Revolutionary Workers’ Movement of Hamilton has launched a new initiative which aims to defend the direct, day-to-day interests of Hamilton’s workers. The Steel City Workers’ Defence Network will use solidarity and direct action to fight issues like wage-theft, unjust firings, sexual harassment, stealing tips, unpaid training, and others. “The idea is this: there are […]
Immigration Detention in Canada
Today at Central East Correctional Centre 50 immigration detainees are hunger striking to protest worsening living conditions, abuses, and indefinite detention. This comes one year after the death of Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan who was in the custody of Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC). Hassan had spent 4 years […]
Occupy INAC in solidarity with Attawapiskat! A failed occupation
On April 14th in Ottawa a call was put out by a local indigenous activist to have a march and to occupy the Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada (INAC) offices lobby on 10 Wellington St., Gatineau, Québec. This occupation and march like the others that were planned in major cities in Canada like Montréal, […]
Let us unite and hold high the red banner on May Day 2016 in Toronto!
We are calling on all comrades and other like-minded anti-capitalists to join our red contingent for this year’s May Day march. May Day was born out of militant working-class struggle. While there are many important issues facing the working class (with some issues affecting certain sections more than others) and we are all waging various […]