Canada gov’t mounts new attack on political rights
![Canadian riot police use pepper spray against truckers, other protesters in Ottawa, Feb. 19, 2022. Despite Emer-gencies Act being recently ruled illegal by federal judge, Justin Trudeau government is pressing new attack on political rights, the Online Harms Act.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CanadaTruckersProtest-8811-300x209.jpg)
MONTREAL — In a major new attack on the right to free speech, Canada’s Liberal Party government has introduced Bill 63 — the Online Harms Act. It is sweeping legislation…
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MONTREAL — In a major new attack on the right to free speech, Canada’s Liberal Party government has introduced Bill 63 — the Online Harms Act. It is sweeping legislation…
Following the victorious United Auto Workers unionization campaign by workers at the Volkswagen auto plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in April, workers at Mercedes-Benz in Vance, Alabama, voted down representation by…
COTTONDALE, Ala. — “Our organizing drive got new impetus from the gains the United Auto Workers made during the strike at John Deere in 2021 and what the UAW accomplished…
ATLANTA — “We feel great,” Jim Spitzley, a Mercedes-Benz worker in Vance, Alabama, and veteran fighter for representation by the United Auto Workers, told the Militant by phone April 7….
…“The vote for the United Auto Workers shows that the low point of labor resistance is behind us,” Fitzmaurice told Lisa Black, a member of the International Association of Machinists…
…made in the United Auto Workers strike against the Big Three auto bosses last year were a theme of many conference sessions. Participants celebrated the announcement during the conference that…
…piece, government-funded all-embracing health care, child care and elder care, and more. Hundreds of thousands of workers and their unions, from auto, rail, truckers, flight attendants, nurses and others are…
…presenting to its upcoming convention, printed in its online paper Peoples World. By “fascism” it means, the “fascist trajectory of wide swaths of the Republican Party.” It says the CP…
LONDON — TV personality India Willoughby asked police in Northumbria to arrest author J.K. Rowling for alleged “transphobia,” claiming that her online remarks were a “hate crime.” At stake for…
…over the top! An over-the-road truck driver who subscribed to the paper last year at a rally of Teamsters made an online contribution of $100. Don’t stop now. The end…