What is the NEW SOCIALIST GROUP (NSG)?

We are a network of socialists. We publish "New Socialist," a magazine offering radical analysis of politics, social movements and culture. Our website and magazine are forums for people who want to strengthen today's activism and for those who wish to replace global capitalism with a genuinely democratic socialism. We believe that the liberation of the working class and oppressed peoples can be won only through their own struggles. We invite you to find out more and to work with or join us.

NSG Activities/Information

WINNIPEG: Who Will Build the Ark? - Feb 18

Join us for a discussion of an article by US radical Mike Davis. more...

Hope is in the Streets, not Parliament!

A leaflet handed out by the Winnipeg New Socialist Group at the local rally against the prorogation of Parliament on Jan. 23. more...

Making Sense of the Crisis

The latest special theme issue of "New Socialist" looks at the economic crisis, resistance and how to build a new left (Dec. 2009). Available for free download. more...

New Socialist Brochure Fall 2009

"The Great Recession and the Left," a 16-page brochure of four articles, is available for downloading.more...

A New Left is Needed! Socialist Speakers Tour

Coming this fall and winter to cities across Canada! Check for updates on dates and venues.more...

Their Crisis and Ours

May Day statement from the NSG Executive.more...

Racism and Anti-Racism

The latest special theme issue of "New Socialist" is now available (March 2009).more...

Economic Crisis in Nova Scotia -- A Radical Response

A statement from Halifax New Socialists. more...

Palestine, Israel and Canada

A statement from the Executive of the New Socialist Group. more...

Socialism for Our Times

Now available for free downloading! "New Socialist"'s theme issue on Socialism for Our Times contains a lead article on socialism today and socialist perspectives on gender and sexual liberation, anti-racism, union activism, indigenous struggles and more.more...

1968: Year of Global Revolt

Available now (Sept. 2008): special issue of "New Socialist" on 1968 and its lessons for today. more...

Fall Issue of New Socialist Magazine

The Fall issue of New Socialist is now available. This issue features articles on Ecosocialism and Environmental Activism. more...

Summer Issue of New Socialist Magazine

New Socialist #61 has a special focus on the Future of the Left. more...

Farewell to a Comrade: Dave Brophy

Dave Brophy, member of the Winnipeg Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement, member of the New Socialist Group, and dear friend, has died. more...

Unions in Canada. Which Way Forward for the Union Movement?

Spring 2007 issue of New Socialist magazine. more...

Latin America Resurgent!

The Winter 2006-07 issue of New Socialist magazine. more...

Indigenous Resurgence

The Fall 2006 issue of New Socialist is a guest-edited edition on the struggles of indigenous peoples in North America. more...

The New Right in Canada

July to August 2006 issue of New Socialist magazine. more...

Racism in Canada

April to June 2006 issue of New Socialist magazine. more...

Resisting Imperialism

February to March 2006 issue of New Socialist magazine. more...

Canada and Empire

November 2005 to January 2006 issue of New Socialist Magazine. more...

Capitalism, Violence and Women's Lives

September to October 2005 Issue of New Socialist magazine. more...

Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future

July to August 2005 issue of New Socialist Magazine. more...

The New Socialist Group: How to Get Involved

Description of the New Socialist Group, our politics, our activities and how to affiliate.more...

Solidarity Events/Actions

REGINA: Canada and the Honduran Coup - Feb 9

Jeffery R. Webber will report back from meetings in Honduras with trade unionists, peasants, and other activists involved in the popular resistance against the coup government. more...

VANCOUVER: Opposition to the 2010 Winter Olympics - Feb 10-15

The Olympics Resistance Network is organizing a convergence from Feb. 10-15.more...

ST. CATHARINES: Fundraiser for Strikers - Feb 12

A gathering for solidarity in the Niagara region. more...

Support Mexican Electrical Workers!

The Mexican government has used the military to try to crush the militant and democratic Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) and has fired all its 44 000 members. But the SME and allies are fighting back, and the SME needs financial support. more...

People's History of Kanada Poster Project

Posters produced by grassroots artists in collaboration with No One is Illegal-Vancouver are now available. more...

Hands Off Haiti CD release

The Canada Haiti Action Network is proud to announce the release of the “Hands Off Haiti” musical compilation CD featuring top performing artists from both Haiti and Canada. more...

Boycott Chapters & Indigo Bookstores

The campaign demands an end to the financial support offered by the majority owners of Chapters and Indigo to Heseg - the Foundation for Lone Soldiers. This is a program of financial support for former “lone soldiers” in the Israeli military. more...

International News/Analysis

HOWARD ZINN: A Rebel for a Better World

Brian Jones, a teacher, actor and activist in New York city, pays tribute to the late activist-historian, Howard Zinn.more...

HONDURAS: Consolidating the Coup? Pepe Lobo, Imperialism, and the Resistance

Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber analyze the significance of Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo's inauguration and the state of the anti-coup resistance in Honduras.more...

HAITI: Statement by Adoptees of Colour

"We uphold that Haitian children have a right to a family and a history that is their own and that Haitians themselves have a right to determine what happens to their own children," argue groups of adoptees of colour. more...

CANADA: Resistance to the Olympics

In the second of two articles on the Vancouver Olympics, Harold Lavender looks at the politics of anti-Olympics resistance. Special to newsocialist.org more...

HONDURAS: Feminists in Resistance

Jeffery R. Webber interviews two leading members of Feminists in Resistance outside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa on National Women's Day in Honduras.more...

HONDURAS: Canadian Mining and Popular Resistance

In Honduras, Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber talked to anti-mining activist Carlos Danilo Amador. Amador argues that in terms of mining, we are witnessing "the new Canadian colonization of Honduras." Also, Jeffery R. Webber interviews peasant resistance leader, Rafael Alegría.more...

CANADA: Opposing the Olympics

"There are ample grounds to resist the Olympics," writes Harold Lavender from Vancouver in the first of two articles on the Olympics and activism. Special to newsocialist.org more...

CANADA: Statement from Toronto Assembly

The vision statement of a new left-wing formation in Toronto. more...

Anarchists in the Global Justice Movement

Jackie Esmonde reviews David Graeber's book about an important anarchist current in the global justice movement, "Direct Action: An Ethnography." Special to newsocialist.org more...

HAITI: "Aid" and Imperialism

"If we are serious about assisting this devastated land," Peter Hallward writes, "we must stop trying to control and exploit it." Dan Freeman-Maloy looks at "how calls to 'help' Haiti were a cornerstone justification for one of the greatest crimes in the past decade of Canadian foreign policy." Includes link to Canada Haiti Action Network. more...

CANADA: Why Resist the Olympics?

Chris Shaw makes the case, and suggests "resistance to the Olympics may be part of the rebirth of the anti-globalization/world-social-justice movement." more...

OBITUARY: Daniel Bensaid

Tributes by Gilbert Achcar and Tariq Ali, who writes "At a time when a large section of the French intelligentsia had shifted its terrain and embraced neoliberalism, Bensaïd remained steadfast, but without a trace of dogma. Even in the 1960s he had avoided leftwing cliches and thought creatively, often questioning the verities of the far left." more...

IDEAS: Strategies of Resistance

Daniel Serge reviews "Strategies of Resistance," a collection of writings by French Marxist Daniel Bensaid (1946-2010). Special to newsocialist.org more...

BOLIVIA: Struggle, Continuity, and Contradiction

Jeffery R. Webber reviews John Crabtree and Laurence Whitehead's new book on Bolivia.more...

CANADA: Proroguing and the Left

Kyle Buott writes: "Across the country, activists from social movements, unions, and various opposition parties are moving quickly towards a day of action on January 23rd against the proroguement of the Federal Parliament." He makes the case that socialists should support this day of action. Special to newsocialist.org.more...

VENEZUELA: Where is the Bolivarian Revolution Going?

Jeffery R. Webber reviews Steve Ellner's latest book on Venezuela.more...

EGYPT/PALESTINE: Lessons of Gaza

"The Gaza Freedom March has not made it to Gaza. Some might say this is a failure. But Gaza is in the hearts and other lessons will be learned here," writes Dave Bleakney. more...

EUROPE: Recent Developments on the Radical Left

Daniel Bensaid looks at the new left "range of forces" and argues for focusing on "struggles and social movements as the cornerstone for the patient building of a new political force of the exploited and oppressed." more...

ECOLOGICAL CRISIS: Copenhagen Climate Justice

Outside the UN Summit on Climate Change, the movement for climate justice marches and raises its demand: System change, not climate change! more...

BOLIVIA: For the Reconstitution of the Movements from Below

Ten years after the Cochabamba Water War in 2000, Oscar Olivera suggests that "Within the grassroots there are mixed feelings of dissatisfaction, sadness and anger. The demand of re-appropriating the commons and natural resources like gas, petrol, minerals and water has fundamentally not been met."more...

HONDURAS: Amid Repression, Anti-Coup Mobilizing Continues

Reporting from Honduras, Dawn Paley writes on the first march of the Honduran resistance since the fraudulent elections of November 29.more...

BOLIVIA: An Interview with the Bolivian Ambassador to Canada

Jeffery R. Webber talks to Edgar Tórrez Mosqueira, Bolivian ambassador to Canada on the context leading up to yesterday's elections in Bolivia. Webber will have forthcoming analysis of the elections and Morales' first term in office in the coming days.more...

CANADA: Remembering the Montreal Massacre

Judy Rebick writes that "The best way to remember these fourteen women is recommit ourselves, women and men, to the fight for women's liberation and an end to violence against women." more...

HONDURAS: Elections Pantomime Democracy and State Terror

Tyler Shipley, just back from Honduras, reports: "it is hard to imagine how anyone could believe, even for a moment, that free and fair elections could possibly take place in Honduras on November 29." Special to newsocialist.org.more...

CANADA: Back-to-Work Legislation vs Unions

Chris Rigaux writes on the CN rail strike and the threat of legislation that brought it to an end. Special to newsocialist.org more...

WORLD: Understanding the Financial Meltdown

A new pamphlet examines Canada, the economic crisis, and political struggle. See, in particular, articles by Todd Gordon, David McNally, and Alan Sears.more...

CANADA: No Barbarians, Please, We're Canadian

Radha Jhappan looks at the new guide to Canadian citizenship. more...

CANADA: Olympic Paranoia

Canadian border officials held independent journalist Amy Goodman in Vancouver for 90 minutes when she attempted to enter Vancouver to attend events launching her new book, Dave Zirin reports. But the Canadian border team didn't care what she was there to do. They wanted to know what she was going to say.more...

AFGHANISTAN: Obama's Surge "Can Only Magnify the Crime"

Malalai Joya writes on Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan. more...

WORLD: Chavez's Call for a Fifth International

Francois Sabado writes on Hugo Chavez's call for a new international organization of socialists. more...

AFGHANISTAN: Bad Autumn for NATO

Tariq Ali reports, "It’s now obvious to everyone that this is not a ‘good’ war designed to eliminate the opium trade, discrimination against women and everything bad – apart from poverty, of course."more...

HONDURAS: Agreement or Farce?

The “Tegucigalpa/San José Accord”, as it is now known, contemplates the creation of a government of “unity and national reconciliation”. In practice this means power sharing between the coup plotters and Zelaya supporters.more...

PALESTINE: Protesters Reenact Fall of Berlin Wall

Protesters reenacted the fall of the Berlin Wall to mark its 20th anniversary, tipping over part of an 8 meter tall concrete wall dividing Ramallah and Jerusalem.more...

EASTERN EUROPE: Twenty Years Later

Twenty years after the Berlin Wall came down, signaling the collapse of the Stalinist bureaucratic dictatorships of Eastern Europe, two articles look at what happened and some of its lessons. more...

WORLD: A Theory of Globalized Capitalism

Jeffery R. Webber reviews William I. Robinson's latest book, "Latin America and Global Capitalism."more...

VENEZUELA: Chávez Comments Spark Discontent Among Venezuelan Electrical Workers

"With those words uttered in Hello President [TV program], President Chavez, whether he intends to or not, is supporting the plan of the same bureaucrats who are sabotaging unification and destroying the company" - statement from the revolutionary National Union of Workers (UNT).more...

MEXICO: Electrical Workers Union Fights for Its Life

"The union's struggle has rallied allies in the labor movement and on the left in Mexico and solidarity from throughout the country and around the world," argues Dan La Botz, "but, if it is to survive, the union and its supporters have to take stronger actions than they have so far, and time is not on their side."more...

CANADA: Uphold the Rights of Seventy Six Migrants aboard Ocean Lady

The immigrant and refugee rights group No One Is Illegal is demanding that officials respect the human rights of the seventy six migrants who arrived aboard the ship Ocean Lady this weekend off the shores of Vancouver Island.more...

WORLD: Jonathan Kay vs. David McNally on Capitalism, Communism, and what Michael Moore has to Say About America

Debate between "National Post" comment editor Jonathan Kay and York University political science professor David McNally on Michael Moore's new film "Capitalism: A love story."more...

CANADA: What's Wrong with the Immigration System?

A Statement by No One Is Illegal - Toronto.more...

MEXICO: Government Seizes Power Plants, Liquidates Company, Fires Workers

Articles by Dan La Botz and Laura Carlsen on the urgent situation at the Central Light and Power Company of Mexico (LyF) and the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME).more...

CANADA/GUATEMALA: Recent Killlings Linked to Canadian Mining

Dawn Paley reports, "These killings are a flare up in a tense area, where the track record of Canadian mining companies includes forced displacement over multiple generations, co-operation with the army, and the burning of homes belonging to Indigenous people."more...

CANADA: Really Harper, Canada Has No History of Colonialism?

"We also have no history of colonialism..." - Prime Minister Stephen Harper. more...

HONDURAS: Zelaya Returns, Military Represses Anti-Coup Demonstrators

Democratically elected President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya - exiled in a right-wing coup on June 28 2009 - has made a dramatic return to the capital city of Tegucigalpa. more...

WORLD: Is the Global Economy Recovering?

In a wide ranging examination of the state of the world economy, David McNally concludes that despite the giddiness of mainstream financial pundits, "for poor and working class people it is unlikely to feel like the economy has recovered for quite some time."more...

USA: Why We Need Rebels

Mike Davis on the struggle against austerity in California: "It's not going to happen unless you change the chemistry of the state and change the balance of social forces. That involves uniting and coordinating resistance across the state in high schools, in forgotten suburban communities, in plants full of workers about to be downsized."more...

SOUTH AFRICA: Caster Semenya Aint 8 Feet Tall

Radical sports journalist Dave Zirin writes: "Unfortunately for women athletes, you can't be too masculine for fear you'll be called a lesbian. You can't be too aggressive for fear that you will be called mannish. You must be an outdated stereotype of a woman before you are an athlete. You must market yourself as nonthreatening and blazingly heterosexual."more...

USA: Healthcare Reform is Dead

"The 'transparent government' that President Obama guaranteed during his electoral campaign," Shamus Cook argues, "has become yet another broken promise. "more...

AFGHANISTAN: Why Afghans Have No Hope in This Week's Vote

Malalai Joya reports on this week's election in Afghanistan: "In a country ruled by warlords, occupation forces, Taliban insurgency, drug money and guns, no one can expect a legitimate or fair vote."more...

BOLIVIA/CANADA: Lessons for Rebuilding the Left

Jeffery R. Webber discusses urban rebellions of the poor in Bolivia over the 2000-2005 period and points to some lessons that the Canadian Left might draw from those experiences.more...

HONDURAS: Battle for the Region

Historian Greg Grandin writes, "The failure to restore Zelaya to power will send a clear message to Latin American conservatives that Washington will tolerate coups, provided they are carried out under a democratic guise."more...

EL SALVADOR/CANADA: Another Anti-Mining Activist Shot

Jason Wallach reports that "A leader in the movement opposed to re-opening the El Dorado goldmine in northeast El Salvador was in stable condition after being shot eight times in the back and legs." Self-proclaimed leftist President Mauricio Funes, "seems to be acquiescing to pressure from Pacific Rim and other corporate players."more...

CANADA: Sudbury's Strike of 1978-79 Remembered

"As in 1978," Bruce Allen declared recently at a solidarity rally at the Vale Inco picket line, "this union busting employer must be taught a lesson about what it is like to deal with real unions and real trade unionists."more...

NIGERIA: Slipping Into Darkness

Michael Watts reports: "Nigeria is an oil-rich petro-state but its developmental record in one of catastrophic failure.... Eighty-five per cent percent of oil revenues accrue to one per cent of the population and a huge proportion of the country’s wealth – perhaps 40 per cent or more, has been stolen."more...

EL SALVADOR/CANADA: Violence Against Anti-Mining Protesters

A wave of violence targeted at anti-mining protesters has ripped through Cabañas in north-eastern El Salvador, and Pacific Rim Mining Corporation, the mid-size Canadian company which has lost millions in its effort to exploit the area’s ample gold deposits has remained curiously silent on the attacks.more...

CANADA: Nickel, Neoliberalism, and Nationalism in the Sudbury Miners' Strike

"More than 3300 employees of mining giant Vale Inco are on strike in Sudbury, Ontario, and in other Canadian communities," Scott Neigh reports, "to defend decades' worth of gains."more...

PERU/ECUADOR: A Common Enemy

Jennifer Moore argues that the governments of Ecuador and Peru, despite positioning themselves rhetorically on different sides of the political spectrum, have both "singled out their own citizens who resist extractive industry expansion."more...

PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN: Tariq Ali on Obama's War

"This is now Obama’s war," writes Tariq Ali. "He campaigned to send more troops into Afghanistan and to extend the war, if necessary, into Pakistan. These pledges are now being fulfilled."more...

MEXICO: PRI Wins Mid-Term Elections

Dan La Botz writes, "The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which for 70 years, from 1928 to 2000, ruled Mexico as a one-party state and according to some the 'perfect dictatorship,' won a decisive victory in the mid-term elections on July 5."more...

IRAN: Questions and Answers on the Crisis

"What is decisive is that huge masses of Iranians are convinced that the election was rigged and that they went into the streets, at great personal risk, to demand democracy and an end to theocratic repression."more...

USA: The Left and Obama

Charlie Post writes on how the US Left should relate to Obama and the Democrats. more...

CANADA: Toronto Municipal Workers' Strike

Greg Albo and Herman Rosenfeld analyze the strike by Toronto city workers. more...

REVIEW: The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy

Murray Cooke reviews Yves Engler's new book -- "a book that has been desperately needed for a long time." Special to newsocialist.org more...

CANADA: Imperial Hypocrisy

Todd Gordon contrasts the Canadian government's responses to repression in Iran, Honduras and Peru. more...

HONDURAS: Military Coup

A military coup is underway in this Central American country, in which Canadian capital is the second largest source of foreign investment. more...

USA: Obama, the Crisis and the Movements

A draft working paper from the US socialist group Solidarity. more...

IRAN: News and Analysis of the Protests

We recommend a blog and an article on the situation. more...

CANADA: Where is the Left?

David Camfield discusses a question raised by journalist Thomas Walkom. Special to newsocialist.org more...

IRAN: Rigged Election, Mass Protests

Lee Sustar looks at the dynamics driving mass protests and repression in Iran following the rigged presidential election. more...

CANADA: Evaluating the NDP Win in Nova Scotia

Luke Unrah writes on the provincial election and what it means for the Left. Special to newsocialist.org more...

PERU: Blood at the Blockade: Peru's Indigenous Uprising

Gerardo Renique writes: "Indigenous unrest in the Peruvian Amazon began late last year. After an ebb of a few months... Amazonian indigenous groups have sustained intensifying protests, including shutdowns of oil and gas pumping stations as well as blockades of road and river traffic."more...

QUEBEC: UQAM's Professors' Strike

David Mandel analyzes the UQAM professors' strike. "Once engaged," he argues, "the struggle itself reinforces solidarity, because it becomes the vital condition of victory."more...

CANADA: The Crisis in Auto

Bruce Allen writes on the crisis facing autoworkers and the CAW. Special to newsocialist.org more...

USA: Catch Dat Beat in New Orleans

Jordan Flaherty reports on the culture of Bounce, a style of New Orleans Hip-Hop sometimes called "project music," and a community of gay rappers self-identified as sissy bounce artists.more...

CANADA: Toronto Stewards' Assembly

A participant in the large event organized by the Toronto Labour Council in early May raises some questions. Special to newsocialist.org more...

CANADA: The Nova Scotia NDP

Luke Unrau argues that although the Nova Scotia NDP may win the provincial election, its "platform reeks of populist, conservative policies." Special to newsocialist.org more...

CANADA: The War in Sri Lanka and the Left

Noaman Ali and Fathima Cader write on the politics of the Tamil-Canadian community and the stance of the Left. more...

HISTORY: The Winnipeg General Strike

Jim Naylor looks at an important workers' struggle of 90 years ago. Special to newsocialist.org Ian Angus comments in response. more...

AFGHANISTAN: US Policy, Women and Alternative Solutions

An interview with Mariam Rawi of RAWA. more...

Capitalism and the Flu

Mike Davis explains how globalized agribusiness set the stage for a frightening outbreak of the swine flu in Mexico. more...

Bank Nationalization: Good for Us?

Yen Chu looks at the current so-called "nationalization" of banks and alternatives. Special to newsocialist.org more...

SOUTH AFRICA: Elections, Capitalist Crisis and Movement-Building

John Appolis and Dale McKinley, writing on behalf of the Anti-Privatisation Forum, analyze the situation in South Africa and call for a boycott of the elections. more...

CANADA: Economic Crisis and Colonialism

Todd Gordon argues "the government's response to the recession has a sharply colonial dynamic to it" which the Left needs to understand. more...

CANADA: Vancouver Olympics "A Rich Man's Game"

Harsha Walia writes that the Olympics "are less about sport than a spectacular capitalist industry that ensures corporate profits at all costs." more...

FRANCE: Crisis, Strikes and Anti-Capitalism

Virginia de la Siega examines how the economic crisis has thrown up new struggles and new organizations.more...

CANADA: Immigration Raids

On April 2 and 3, the Canada Border Services Agency carried out large raids in Ontario. more...

Reimagining Socialism Today

The US magazine "The Nation" is running an online forum on "Reimagining Socialism." We recommend several contributions. more...

FRANCE: Another Left is Possible!

"It would be wrong to see last Thursday's massively successful protest actions in France as distant and exotic, of no particular relevance to us here in Canada," argues Nathan Rao. more...

CANADA: Conservative Campus Scheme Exposed

An expose of Tory plans to take over student unions and undermine Public Interest Research Groups in Ontario. more...

AFGHANISTAN: A Surge Towards Disaster

Anthony Fenton writes on Obama's disastrous policy in Afghanistan. more...

CANADA: Israeli Apartheid Week Not a "Hate-Fest"

Judy Rebick and Alan Sears defend the recent campus events that have been the target of smears by leading politicians. more...

UK: Construction Workers' Strike

Gregor Gall analyzes "the most significant instance of workers’ resistance to the recession and its effects so far" in the UK.more...

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: Liberation Politics

Gabrielle Gerin and Sandra Sarner write on the politics of gender and sexual liberation. more...

BOOK REVIEW: Economics for Everyone

Bill Burgess reviews Jim Stanford's recent book, arguing it "betrays too much faith in capitalism." more...

Revolt Goes Global

Phil Hearse argues we are in a new era, as "the economic crisis combines with the ecological crisis to create a major crossroads in human civilisation." more...

Criticism of Israel is Not Anti-Semitism

Alan Sears and Judy Rebick challenge this common claim, recently made by federal Tory minister Jason Kenneymore...

PALESTINE: The Road to Gaza's Killing Fields

Toufic Haddad offers an assessment of Israel's offensive in Gaza. more...

USA: Obama's Violin

Paul Street examines Obama's record in detail. more...

VENEZUELA: Chavez's Referendum Victory

Chris Carlson, a journalist formerly based in Venezuela, looks at the results of the country's referendum on presidential term limits in the context of a worsening economy. more...

USA: Joel Kovel Terminated by Bard College

In a statement regarding his recent termination from Bard College, Joel Kovel writes that the decision was "prejudicial and motivated neither by intellectual nor pedagogic considerations, but by political values, principally stemming from differences between myself and the Bard administration on the issue of Zionism."more...

Multimedia Audio/Video

VANCOUVER: Politics in the Ring

Video and audio from a Jan. 20 anti-Olympics event, with speakers including radical sports writer Dave Zirin and Carol Martin of the Downtown Eastside Elders' Council. more...

HAITI: Many Foreign Soldiers, Little Emergency Aid

A news report on US and UN control of earthquake-devastated Haiti. more...

HONDURAS: An Election Validated by Blood and Repression

Watch video clips on the bloody "elections" held by the coupist regime in Honduras.more...

WORLD: Their Crisis, Our Movements: What's Next?

As the worst global economic crisis in seventy years deepens, social movement organizations and the Left have been forced to rethink our past strategies. Working people are faced with critical situations at every turn in the workplace and in their communities. Watch videos of talks addressing these issues by David McNally, Vivek Chibber, Christy Thornton, Penelope Duggan, and others, from the recent Solidarity conference in New York City.more...

VIDEO: Marx and the Economic Crisis

David McNally talks on the global economic crisis and its social costs. more...

VIDEO: Debate on Academic Boycott of Israel

A debate held at York University. more...

VIDEO: Occupation in Scotland

Workers at a small Scottish factory have occupied the facility. more...

Global Economic Crisis

A radio interview with David McNally on the global economic crisis. more...

PALESTINE: What You Need to Know About Israel's "Colonies"

A short video about Israeli "settlements" in the West Bank. more...

COLOMBIA: Indigenous Resistance and State Oppression

An interview on indigenous mobilizations, repression and the agenda of the communities in resistance. more...

AUDIO: Capitalism's Financial Crisis

Audio recordings from an Oct. 6 forum in Toronto. Speakers include David McNally. more...

VIDEO: On White Privilege

A speech by US anti-racist Tim Wise.more...

MUSIC: Dope Poet Society's Political Hip Hop

Videos and an article about this Toronto crew. more...

MUSIC VIDEO: Hockey Night in Afghanada

The Consumer Goods challenge the CBC's use of Hockey Night in Canada to support the occupation of Afghanistan. more...

THEORY: Course on Marx's "Capital"

Watch videos of course on Marx's "Capital" by Marxist scholar David Harvey. more...

COLOMBIA: The Case of the Dodgy Laptops

Forrest Hylton looks at the "manufacturing of threats" against Venezuela and Ecuador using the alleged contents of captured FARC guerillas' laptops. more...

US: Veterans Speak Out

US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan testify about the occupations as part of the Winter Soldier project. more...

VIDEO: Lou Dobbs Confronted

Immigrant workers and allies confront racist right-wing populist Lou Dobbs of CNN. more...

VIDEO: Not In Our Name (The Pledge of Resistance)

Spoken word poet Saul Williams. more...

DOCUMENTARY: Che Guevera

BBC's Mark Steel shares a comical lecture on the history behind the legend of rebel leader Che Guevara. more...

MUSIC VIDEO: Out of Control

Chemical Brothers video that comments on corporate attempts to commodify struggle and the use of rebellion to market products. more...

VIDEO: Who Really Owns You?

George Carlin spoken word on who owns you. more...

DOCUMENTARY: Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land

A striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. more...

VIDEO: Blackwater Shadow Army

The Nation's Jeremy Scahill describes the rise of Blackwater USA, the world's most powerful mercenary army. more...

Isaac Deutscher: Audio of Mike Davis on Deutscher's Significance

Mike Davis discusses the legacy of Isaac Deutscher.more...

VIDEO: Police Provocateurs Exposed

Video footage of police provocateurs being exposed in Montebello. more...

VIDEO: Resist the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement.

Resist the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement. Continental Day of Action August 20th. more...

MUSIC VIDEO: War Pigs Iraq

Black Sabbath's anti-war song "War Pigs" set to Iraq war footage. more...

MUSIC VIDEOS: The Coup

Streaming music videos from political hip-hop artists the Coup.more...

DOCUMENTARY: Dispatches: Iraq the Women's Story

A compelling account of a life inside Iraq that is rarely seen on news bulletins: stories of ordinary women whose struggle to survive has only worsened since the war.more...

VIDEO: Police Attack May Day Immigration Reform Demo in LA

Police attack May Day immigrant rights demo in California. more...

VIDEO: Middle East - War, Imperialism and Ecology

Gilbert Achcar: Imperialism and resistance in the Middle East / the left and the Middle East, Phil Hearse: US imperialism today, Les Levidow: Why do the imperialists support the Israeli state?, Chadi Khalil: Lebanese Communist Party, and Eva Jasiewicz: the struggle for Iraq's oil. more...

DOCUMENTARY: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

A documentary about the April 2002 failed coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Two independent filmmakers were present when he was forcibly removed from office and 48 later when he returned to power. more...

VIDEO: Planet of the Arabs

A trailer-esque montage of Hollywood's vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.more...

VIDEO and MP3: A Really Inconvenient Truth, The Left After Kyoto

Joel Kovel on Eco-Socialism. MP3 file and streaming video.more...

MUSIC VIDEO: Born Here

Palestinian hip-hop video in Arabic/Hebrew with english subtitles. more...

MP3: Overcoming Zionism

MP3 of booklaunch of Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism". Kovel makes the argument for a single secular democratic state in Israel/Palestine. more...

MUSIC VIDEO: Faithless - Bombs

This music video, Bombs by the band Faithless, was banned from MTV due to its anti-war theme. more...

ANIMATION: Global Politics in 30 Seconds

A short and humorous look at US imperialism. more...

DOCUMENTARY: Breaking the Silence

John Pilger 2003 documentary on the "Truth and Lies of the War on Terror". more...

ANIMATION: Manifestoon

The Communist Manifesto illustrated by classic cartoons. more...