By Andrew MacIsaac
In anticipation of the G20 Summit in Toronto a group of lawyers, law students and undercover police officer(s) came together to train and act as Legal Observers during demonstrations related to the G20.
For independent media coverage including reports on the demonstrations and
By Ali Mustafa
Yves Engler’s latest book is an indispensable resource for students and activists alike, offering a sweeping indictment of Canadian foreign policy history in the Middle East that should not go unheeded.
By Daniel Serge
In the early hours of May 18, a branch of the Royal Bank of Canada went up in flames. We know this because a previously unidentified group, calling itself FFFC – Ottawa, posted a video of the incident to indymedia.org, the radical web portal. RBC was the target for “stealing native land” during the 2010 Winter Olympics. FFFC promised to attend the upcoming G20 protests in Toronto.
The theme of the May/June 2010 issue of Briarpatch is
By Alan Sears
One talk by racist American right-winger Ann Coulter gets shut down and the media fills up with columns, editorials, stories and opinion pieces about freedom of speech. Yet a concerted silencing campaign against Palestine solidarity that has included the federal government, Israel advocacy organizations and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff gets virtually no critical media attention.
Faculty of the University of Regina say No to “Project Hero” and Canadian Imperialism: An Open Letter to President Vianne Timmons
By Harold Lavender
Opposition to the many negative impacts of the Vancouver Olympics was loud and clear as activists vigorously exercised their right to free speech in wide-ranging protest actions against the 2010 Winter Games.
A discussion document for the New Socialist Group (1996) By
VI. Leon Trotsky and Anti-Stalinist Socialism DURING THE TERRIBLE decade
By Harold Lavender Resistance and opposition to events such as
By Harold Lavender Movements opposing the 2010 Winter Olympics appear
By Jackie Esmonde
A review of David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography (AK Press, 2009).
Vilified by the media, romanticized by scores of young people, viewed by some as the bane of the global justice movement – like it or not, the Black Bloc anarchists who first entered public consciousness at the Seattle demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in 1999 came to symbolize the resistance to global inequality of the late 1990s and early 2000s in North America.
By Daniel Serge Strategies of Resistance (2009) collects a series
By Kyle Buott January 6, 2010 Proroguement: an Affront to
Engler, Yves. The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy. Fernwood
By David Camfield In a June 13th Toronto Star article
By Anonymous On May 7, 2009 the Toronto and York
By Jim Naylor The Winnipeg General Strike is a landmark
By Gregor Gall Introduction The engineering construction workers’ strike has
