Message from the May 1st Movement on May Day 2013 In 1886, 127 years ago, European immigrant workers marched in Chicago to demand an eight [...]
International League of Peoples’ Struggle – Canada Statement for Feb 14 On February 14 Spirit Sisters and those that love them will be holding vigils and marches demonstrating their commitment to “NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS”. Indigenous grassroots women and those who stand in solidarity with them will be raising their voices and rallying in the [...]
The Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity (NPAS), Justice Is Not Colour-Blind, International League of Peoples’ Struggle/Canada, Group for Research and Initiatives for the Liberation of Africa (GRILA) and the Pan-Afrikan Solidarity Network (U of T) present an Afrikan Liberation Month forum on the the relevance of the Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verdean revolutionary theoretician, military strategist and [...]
#Idle No More: Restoring the Two Row Wampum and Defeating Canadian Colonialism Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:00pm – 6:00pm Rm.109 Atkinson Building, York University Join us for a discussion on our relationships as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in common struggle to protect the Land and water, as guided by the Two Row Wampum. In the [...]
Protesting colonial plunder and ecological destruction may not be ‘legal’, but it’s right! Indigenous Desk- 4:06pm / 9 Feb 2013 This morning around 10:00am, Montreal police reportedly arrested 36 people who were protesting outside the Palais des Congrès, where Montreal Board of Trade was hosting a natural resources conference. The protest was dubbed ‘Protest Against [...]
by Makaya Kelday New York –It was an especially frigid February afternoon in lower Manhattan, as our crowd huddled outside the Cinema Village theatre awaiting our entrance to see the new documentary, Long Distance Revolutionary, about Amerika’s most famous Political Prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal. The film, directed by Stephen Vittoria and produced by Prison Radio director [...]
ZAD Movement in France Reflecting a Strong Anti-Capitalism by Julie Gorecki, Basics Community News Service PARIS – In the forests of the small French village of Notre-Dame-des-Landes (NDDL), you’ll find farmers ignoring eviction notices, activists strapped to tree tops, and police barricades surrounding the area. When entering NDDL you see the word “ZAD” sprayed all [...]
On January 18, 2013, Winter Has Its End and BASICS CNS correspondents interviewed Durlabh Pun, a secretary in the International Department of the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist. Durlabh explains why and how he joined the Maoist movement, his experiences in combating caste and class oppression, and the necessity of communism in today’s world.
On January 8, 2013, BASICS CNS and Winter Has Its End correspondents caught up with Ganesh Kumar Chitaure, owner of a radical bookstore in Kathmandu. Chitaure explains some of the basic inequalities along caste and class lines in Nepal that motivated him to join the Maoist movement. He talks about the role that he played as [...]
Preamble On December 30th of 2012, members of both the Onkwehonwe [First Peoples] of the Haudenosaunee 6′Nations Confederacy and the Canadian Tamil community met in Scarborough. This event fulfilled an invitation extended to Tamil activists and their community in 2010 by the Men’s Fire of 6′Nations, when 6′Nations activists became aware of the Tamil community’s [...]
By Jordy Cummings Richard Seymour’s “Unhitched”, a slim and scathing denunciation of turncoat scoundrel Christopher Hitchens is a thoroughly satisfying and politically important book by one of the few remaining great radical left journalists. I have to hand it to Seymour – this book was a cathartic read. No one uses words like “yawp”, let [...]
January 14, 2013 on Radio Basics: Zig Zag on Idle No More / Toronto High school teacher Luis Filipe on teachers rank-n-file resistance to Bill 115 Click here to download Mp3 or stream. Feature interviews on today’s show with Zig Zag (warriorpublications.wordpress.com) on the “snakes in the grassroots” of #IdleNoMore and his analysis of the [...]
In March 2012, the federal Conservatives passed the Omnibus Crime Bill C-10, despite the protests of thousands of Canadians that the bill would greatly increase the prison population, would not prevent crime, would cost billions of dollars and would have a devastating impact on already marginalized communities, particularly Aboriginal communities who are already drastically over-represented [...]
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