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KENNEY DECLARES WAR ON WORKERS
By Chloe Rockarts
Jason Kenney, leader of Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) has claimed that he will lay out the “most detailed election platform in the province’s history“. His election would mean a full frontal assault on workers and the environment.
The current NDP government has yet to announce the date of the 2019 provincial election, but the writ is expected to drop March 18, with the election taking place mid-April. While the UCP has not won yet, the polls reflect that a new government is likely. Read more!
MANITOBA'S AUSTERITY BUDGET & PROTESTING JASON KENNEY
Amelia Deneka, a student and first time organizer disrupts a United Conservative Party meet and greet at the University of Alberta on Wednesday, March 6. In what could be a result of the protest, UCP leader Jason Kenney ended up not speaking at the event. Deneka shares why they organized the event and why this kind of protest is important.
But first, we’ll have a look at the Manitoba provincial budget announced this week. There’s not a lot of good news, and we have a ton of work to do to. Molly McCracken, Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba Office provides some details on the budget and why we need to be more pro-active in our public investments, especially in light of climate change, and a flood that could happen this spring. Read more!
ILLUSTRATING CANADA'S HISTORY OF STRIKES: BOOK REVIEW
By Jared Ong
Direct Action Gets the Goods and 1919 by the Graphic History Collective provide an illustrated history of workers strikes in Canada that add to a culture of activist art that will inspire new generations of activists to organize, fight and win. Where Direct Action provides a broad overview of strikes from 1800 to the present day, 1919 digs deep into the 1919 Winnipeg General strike to discuss the organizing strategies necessary for a general strike, and highlight the role of the state and employers in dividing workers.
These graphic histories argue that strikes are the most effective weapon workers have. First, strikes hit at the core of capitalism, the ability employers to make profits. Read more!
A DIFFERENT KIND OF TEACHERS' STRIKE WAVE
By Nick French
After decades of decline, the past year has seen a dramatic revival in labor militancy. Public school teachers have been at the forefront of this resurgence, starting with a dramatic wildcat strike in West Virginia in February 2018, then a wave of teacher strikes that swept the nation, moving from red states like Arizona and Oklahoma to blue California and Colorado.
This is not the first time teachers have taken mass, militant labor action in the United States; the 1970s saw a similar strike wave. But today’s strikes have centered antiracist class-struggle demands that unite teachers and school communities, particularly in LA, Oakland, and Chicago; the strikes of the 1970s exacerbated tensions between mostly white teachers and the communities of color they served. Striking teachers have also made clear that public education must be funded by reappropriating the wealth of corporations and the ultrarich, not by higher taxes or benefit cuts to working people. Read more!
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