Articles by Carolyn Egan
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Apr 28, 2019: From the archive: The OFL must give a leadThis column, published in the October 4, 1995 issue of Socialist Worker, was written in the leadup to the Ontario...
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Apr 03, 2019: A call to battleAlmost 900 stewards and trade union activists gathered in downtown Toronto for the first multi-union stewards assembly in years.
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Mar 18, 2019: We Are Fearless – International Women's Day march in TorontoMillions marched around the world to mark International Women’s Day.
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Mar 06, 2019: Build the stewards’ assemblyA stewards’ assembly is taking place on March 25th called by the Toronto and York Region Labour Council.
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Feb 28, 2019: Build the stewards' assemblyA stewards’ assembly is taking place on March 25th called by the Toronto and York Region Labour Council.
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Feb 05, 2019: Fight the right, build the leftThe Trump victory in the presidential election in the United States has given confidence to right-wing forces around the world.
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Jan 20, 2019: "We need to create the system that we want to see.”For the third year in a row, the women’s march was in the streets.
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Jan 17, 2019: Reviving lost labour traditionsAs we begin 2019, we see the incredible polarisation between left and right around the world.
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Oct 03, 2018: Resistance is happening: fight to win $15 and FairnessOver 40,000 students with the support of teachers walked out of their schools across Ontario demanding that the provincial government...
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Aug 23, 2018: Attack on sex ed is an attempt to reinforce oppressionA province-wide campaign opposing the Ford government’s attack on the progressive sex education curriculum has been gathering momentum.
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Jul 18, 2018: Scrap Ford, not sex edWhen Rehtaeh Parsons’s father Glen Canning spoke out after reading the revised sex ed curriculum in Ontario, he said.
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May 31, 2018: The Irish Vote is A Victory for All of Us!My mother left Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway, when she was five years old.
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Apr 02, 2018: Doug Ford is not the answer to working class angerOn March 22 there was an op ed in the New York Times which asked the question, “Will Canada elect...
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Mar 14, 2018: Unite to stop hateI had the opportunity to take part in a conference in London put on by Stand Up to Racism, an...
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Feb 14, 2018: Courage to LEAPThe LEAP Manifesto was developed through a participatory process in which over 60 activists including a significant number of Indigenous...
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Dec 22, 2017: Toronto protest challenges IslamophobesOn a dark night in December, trade unionists from the rapid response team of the Toronto and York Region Labour...
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Nov 28, 2017: Workers solidarity against NAFTAThe NAFTA negotiations have been going on for months but without a strong movement on the ground in Canada.
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Nov 04, 2017: Unions and political positionsTrade unions have historically taken up issues outside the economic and working conditions of their members.
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Oct 02, 2017: Momentum grows for just transitionIn a stunning move the 5.
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Aug 25, 2017: The organized working class can beat the bigotsCharlottesville had made the decision to remove a Confederate statue and brought on the wrath of the white supremacist movement.