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Our Fight for Independent National Policies is Our Fight for Peace 27 Dec 2010 | 12:18 pm
Part 2: An Independent Nation of Peace or Belligerent Prop of US Imperialism Does Canada as a nation chart an independent international course of peace, progress and cooperation with other non-aligne...
Our Fight for Independent National Policies is Our Fight for Peace 6 Nov 2010 | 07:13 am
Part 1: Yes to Peace - No to NATO “Economic planning operated in a capitalist country falls far short of the possibilities of planning under socialism when the working people have political power but...
Recovery For Whom? 10 Mar 2010 | 07:10 am
From the Smoke Pit returns from a long absence – work gets in the way of writing. The economy has not improved for Canadian workers despite all the claims of Harper and his speech writers at the Fraz...
The Recession is Officially Over 29 Jul 2009 | 03:45 am
The Bank of Canada has announced that the recession is officially over. Flaherty is a glow with the “sound fundamentals” of the Canadian financial system. Markets are up. Housing starts and transactio...
Canadian Workers Labour 5 Years for Free! 14 Jul 2009 | 08:48 am
View the whole article (tables and graphs) at: http://www.focusonsocialism.ca/random.asp?ID=250 Striking CUPE public sector workers in Ontario are revealing the rapacious nature of capitalism better ...
The Ideological Struggle is a Fight for a Working Class World View 4 Jul 2009 | 09:11 am
A war is being waged. Canadian workers are being punished in record numbers by monopoly capital for its callous policies of profit first, people second. As the spin-doctors for the capitalist press an...
Dimanno, Hack Journalism: Anti-Canadian to the Core 3 Jul 2009 | 01:18 pm
Toronto Star crack columnist Rosie Dimanno, in the finest tradition of Rush Limbaugh, scratches at the bowels of trash journalism like so many of her contemporary B circuit tabloid critics. With the z...
Halt the Treasonous Western Premiers! For an All Canadian Power Grid Now! 24 Jun 2009 | 02:13 am
The almost total and complete binding integration of Canadian power with United States industry is being sinisterly planned and brazenly executed fully in the open and with the active and complete par...
Alberta Energy Sector Workers Held Hostage by Anti-Worker Governments and International Finance Speculators 23 Jun 2009 | 08:19 am
“Alberta oil sands show signs of life” declared the Globe and Mail headline.[1] The article announced that “many” in the province see indications that the economy may be improving in the Alberta energ...
Flaherty Has a Plan! 17 Jun 2009 | 07:26 am
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced today that “we have a plan”! This is such a relief to all Canadian workers. We can now all rest well at night knowing that the Finance Minister is on the case. ...
