Articles by Carolyn Egan
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May 22, 2013: How do we build a fighting labour movement?The working class and the poor are continuing to take a battering from ruling class assaults.
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May 16, 2013: Unions vs austerityA thousand steelworkers at US Steel Lake Erie Works in Ontario have been locked out once again by their employer.
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Mar 29, 2013: Sex-selection abortion and the attack on unionsThe House of Commons has passed a bill which would force unions to make financial disclosures that are not required...
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Mar 05, 2013: Labour and International Women's DayMarch 8, International Women’s Day, has always had a very close relationship with the labour movement.
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Feb 06, 2013: Labour and the struggle for abortion rightsWe recently celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic Morgentaler Decision.
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Jan 28, 2013: How we won abortion rightsToday is the 25th anniversary of the Morgentaler decision that struck down the law against abortion.
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Jan 05, 2013: Ontario austerity and rank-and-file resistanceThe attacks on working class people and the poor are intensifying as we witness the passage of “right to work”...
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Nov 30, 2012: How workers can winWe have recently witnessed mass strikes across Europe protesting the austerity agenda having a devastating effect on workers and the...
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Oct 22, 2012: How we won abortion rightsA major victory was won when the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the federal abortion law in January of 1988.
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Oct 05, 2012: Rank-and-file workers inspireChicago teachers have shown that public sector workers can take a stand against concessions and the austerity agenda and win.
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Oct 05, 2012: Teacher’s rally shows anger against austerityAlmost 20,000 elementary school teachers from across Ontario covered the lawns at Queen’s Park in a massive demonstration against the...
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Jun 25, 2012: Ontario Teachers Take Political Action Against AusterityOntario government attacks on the public sector have evoked a strong response from teachers.
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May 19, 2012: Building unity between workers in Quebec and English CanadaThere is no doubt that the ongoing student strike in Quebec is the high point of struggle in the pan-Canadian...
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Mar 28, 2012: Losing the right to strikeWe are seeing more and more examples of workers losing the right to strike in this country.
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Mar 02, 2012: IWD TorontoInternational Women’s Day is being celebrated in Toronto this year on March 3.
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Jan 24, 2012: Movement pushes back Ford agendaOn the morning of January 17 over a hundred Steelworkers gathered at a union hall in Toronto preparing to make...
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Jan 04, 2012: Ontario workers fight back against AusterityWe are heading into a time of labour strife in Ontario.
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Nov 21, 2011: The fight against the neoliberal agendaAs Greece teeters on the edge of economic collapse, the 99% occupiers have set up tent cities across North America...