http://linchpin.ca/content/Work-workplace/It%E2%80%99s-class-struggle-stupid Organized labour’s confused response to the McGuinty Liberals’ attack on Ontario’s working-class By Ajamu Nangwaya and Alex Diceanu Organized labour in Ontario will continue to put forth a weak and ineffective response to attacks from the ruling class as long as it continues to ignore the reality of class struggle. A perfect example is [...]

Fertile land the prize that could reignite ethnic conflict in DR Congo Land remains the greatest prize in North Kivu as residents grow uneasy over the return of the Congolese Tutsis from Rwanda Xan Rice in Masisi guardian.co.uk, Thursday 26 [...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/26/un-report-rwanda-congo-hutus Unprecedented investigation by human rights commissioner says Hutu deaths ‘cannot be put down to margins of war’ Chris McGreal in Washington, Xan Rice in Nairobi, and Lizzy Davies in Paris guardian.co.uk, Thursday 26 August 2010 20.45 BST The UN’s Goma camp in [...]

http://www.sharenews.com/opinion/2010/08/25/labour-needs-step-employment-equity Posted by Editor on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 in Front Page Opinion By AJAMU NANGWAYA There are two issues that are not really grounded in the current public discussion on the Conservative government’s proposed review of employment equity in the national civil service. The two matters are the question of race and structural racism and [...]

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Basil-Davidson-s-soul-cannot-rest-in–peace_7832155 PATRICK WILMOT Thursday, August 26, 2010 // After 95 years, the last of which were spent in the fog of unknowing, this great but simple man died in July. He trekked through the jungles with Mondlane, Machel, Cabral and Neto, and now he has joined them in that immortality of the spirit created [...]

Posted by Editor on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 in http://www.sharenews.com/opinion/2010/08/04/caribana-exploitation-and-disrespect-cultural-resource Ajamu Nangwaya By AJAMU NANGWAYA While the April 2010 news of the $438 million economic impact of Caribana is worthy of celebration and all the media attention that it has generated, I hope that as Canadians we will open our eyes to the monumental [...]

May 18, 2010 [Translate] by Wanda Sabir http://sfbayview.com/2010/haiti-hanging-with-rea-dol-at-the-site-of-the-future-sopudep-school/ Building the wall of the new school – Photo: Wanda Sabir Rea Dol and Dodo were at the airport with a sign with my name when I arrived. We then headed to the building site, where a wall is going up around the perimeter. [Rea is the principal of SOPUDEP [...]

http://socialistworker.org/2010/08/02/betrayal-of-haiti Analysis: Ashley Smith Conditions in Haiti are still appalling six months after the quake, reports Ashley Smith. August 2, 2010 SIX MONTHS after Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake, the promises of the world’s most powerful governments to provide billions in aid to one of the world’s poorest and weakest governments have been betrayed. There was an immediate outpouring [...]

Back to Solving Caribana’s funding crisis Solving Caribana’s funding crisis July 29, 2010 http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/842007–solving-caribana-s-funding-crisis Caribana dancers downtown. TANNIS TOOHEY/TORONTO STAR Re: Caribana a victim of cultural racism? Letter July 26 A letter last Friday suggested that security measures at Caribana are disrespectful to West Indians. On Monday someone suggested that reduced federal funding for Caribana is cultural racism. We [...]

Graduate Assistantships are remuneration for graduate students who are engaged in research and/or field development oriented projects contributing to their academic and professional development. Gas are unionized positions represented by CUPE 3907 (Rm 8-104). At OISE there are 45 GA awards available during the September-April academic year to students outside of the Graduate Funded cohort. [...]

Read this report on the CHAN website at: http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/node/498 WASHINGTON DC–Today, Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Loune Viaud, [...]

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http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/839991–caribana-a-victim-of-cultural-racism Published On Mon Jul 26 2010 Re: Caribana to dazzle, on a budget, July 19 It is very unsettling, yet not unexpected, that Caribana is being treated like a cultural outsider and a barbarian at the gate by the different levels of government. Why is it that the largest festival in this country with [...]

The   B u l l e t Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 395 July 23, 2010 One Day Longer? The Vale-Inco Strike Comes to a Close Scott Neigh On July 7 and 8, 2010, striking members of United Steel Workers Local 6500 in Sudbury, Ontario, voted 75% in favour of a contract that ended a bitter strike against transnational mining [...]

The Toronto Community Mobilization Network and Defence Fund are calling on our friends, our comrades and strangers to hold fundraising events in support of the legal defence of the 17 community organizers facing the most serious charges stemming from G20 protests, as well as the hundreds of people facing lesser charges. We need [...]

From: <community.mobilize@resist.ca> Date: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:32 AM Subject: [g8/g20mobilization] Appeal for Public Suport to Expose Police Crimes To: community.mobilize@masses.tao.ca Appeal for public help exposing police crimes Groups launch peoples’ investigation into police abuses at G20 Toronto – Community groups are calling on the public to come forward with photos, video, and eye witness accounts of police [...]

For Immediate Release July 12, 2010 Contact: Andrew Marx, 617-432-1976, amarx@pih.org Meredith Eves, 617-998-8945, meves@pih.org Partners In Health Breaks Ground on World-Class Teaching Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti 320-Bed Hospital Will Be Flagship of PIH’s Response Efforts to January 12 Earthquake, Will Offer Clinical Facilities Not Available at Any Public Site in the Country BOSTON – On July [...]