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Albert Einstein, the great 20th century scientist and socialist, once defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Sound familiar? During the [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how fast things change in the world of politics. We all remember the 1990s. Just talking about raising wages, increasing social spending or regulating an industry was [...]

The brilliant German playwright Bertolt Brecht once said that capitalists were the ultimate radicals. That is because during the past 200 years, the 1% of the wealthiest and most powerful people, [...]

This is a poster I designed for the Confederation of Canadian Unions for their Labour Day Celebration in September 2011. I took the original photo and worked in InDesign and Photoshop to create [...]

A registered nurse for more than forty years, Edna Zawacki has seen and done it all. After working as a volunteer at a clinic near the Height-Ashbury district in San Francisco during the 1960s [...]

It isn’t every day that labour activists in Canada have a chance to meet face-to-face with fellow comrades engaged in union struggles throughout the globe. Yet for three days in July, almost 200 [...]

Remember a time when manufacturing workers and environmentalists seemed at odds over issues like jobs and pollution, when protecting our ecosystems supposedly meant creating more unemployment? As [...]

More than 1,000 labour and community activists packed into the Toronto Metro Convention Centre on November 22 to discuss solutions to the global financial crisis, ever-increasing inequality and [...]

The struggle for human rights throughout the globe has been one of the most defining political activities of the past 100 years. In the western world, this began with the suffragette movement of [...]

Professor John Weiss has seen genocide first hand. Just over ten years ago, he was witness to the slaughter of an estimated 8,000 unarmed Muslims by Serb forces in eastern Bosnia in what is now [...]

Three minutes. That’s how long it took for the ticket sales website of the University of Toronto to crash after it received 23,000 hits from would-be buyers of tickets to a recent forum on global [...]

Anti-war, anti-poverty, anti-pollution, anti-corporate trade, anti-conservative. These days it seems like the entire philosophy of the Left is based on the idea of taking a stand against [...]

Every year the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day, an annual event started in 1979. Of all the serious failures of corporate globalization, [...]

Throughout the nation of Argentina, tens of thousands of unemployed people search the streets and garbage dumps for recyclable products. Called Cartoneros, many of them are young, some of them [...]