Protest Canadian gov’t plans to deport immigrant workers

180 unions, groups back permanent residency for immigrants
March in Montreal Nov. 2 demands Ottawa grant permanent residency to immigrant workers in Canada, drop plans to slash number of legal immigrant workers amid growing unemployment. The government threatens to conduct roundups, mass deportations.

MONTREAL — Over 180 unions and other organizations across Canada have issued an open letter to the federal government calling for an end to its moves to target immigrant workers and to grant permanent residency to all those living in…


Deepening wars and int’l rivalries overshadow UN ‘climate’ talks

Chinese President Xi Jinping, front left, and U.S. President Joseph Biden, rear right, at Asia-Pacific economic forum in Peru Nov. 16. The two rivals chose to attend this and G20 talks in Brazil, looking for allies and openings, instead of COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan.

Intensified national rivalries and conflicts spreading around the world overshadowed the 29th United Nations climate conference, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 11-24. The annual summit — where prominent capitalist figures burnish their green credentials — was marked by the…




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Stalinist ‘Popular Front Against Fascism’ only leads to disaster

Workers occupy Renault auto plant in France, May 1936, part of wave of sit-down strikes that opened door to socialist revolution. Communist and Socialist parties joined Popular Front government, called for “social harmony” with bosses, demobilized the revolutionary upsurge.

Claiming working people face the imminent danger of fascism taking power — in France, Hungary, Italy, Argentina and the U.S. — Stalinist parties of all stripes, Social Democrats and middle-class radicals are resurrecting proposals for a 1930s-style Popular Front Against…







Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.