r/canadaleft Oct 17 '23

Sub Announcement CanadaLeft supports Palestinian liberation! Free Gaza! Free Palestine!

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Upcoming actions

National March on Ottawa Saturday Nov 25 !


What you can do?

Donate!

If you can afford it, consider donating to the many charities doing heroic work in Gaza!

A full vetted list of charities by Build Palestine here

Take action!

Organize or join up with one of the many groups that are taking a stand against war, colonialism, genocide, and apartheid!


Originally prompted by the horrible news of the Israeli Occupation Forces bombing a hospital in Gaza, killing 500, we have seen the horrific murder of over 11,000 (and counting) civilians in Gaza and will no doubt see countless more due to the siege preventing food, water, medicine, fuel, electricity, internet, etc from reaching the populace. The CanadaLeft mod team reaffirms our unflinching solidarity and support for the people of Palestine and especially Gaza at this time. We are seeing yet another textbook case of a settler-colonial project genociding a people for their land the same way it has been happening on Turtle Island.

Thankfully, it's great to see the outpouring of support by the majority of users of /r/CanadaLeft, but we would like to make it very clear to the minority that we will not tolerate people spreading Zionist myths and lies about the origin of Israel, its countless war crimes, its Apartheid system, and its active genocide against Palestinian people.

If you are someone uninformed or someone naively "both sides"-ing this conflict we urge you to get educated. There's plenty of resources available, such as, Human Rights Watch's report on Israel's Apartheid, Abby Martin's coverage of Palestine: Palestine 101, Inside Palestine's Refugee Camps or the in-depth reading lists of Decolonize Palestine and the Palestinian Youth Movement.

If you want to stay informed on developments as they happen, you can follow:

This post will try to keep up to date with upcoming events!

🇵🇸 🇵🇸 End the genocide! End Apartheid! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸 🇵🇸


r/canadaleft 23d ago

Labour Action ✊ 12 Weeks on strike

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Hi Comrades, My union, SEIU Local 2 has been on strike for 12 weeks to bring our employer, the Armstrong Regional Cooperative, back to the table to finish negotiations over our first contract.

We’d love for you guys to call the general manager and tie up as much of his time as possible. The best way to do that is just to play dumb. It’s a co-op. They love the “we give back to the community” BS while paying substantially under the cost of living. A living wage in the Okanagan/S’milk’min/Revelstoke is, at the absolute lowest, $23.36/hr. Their final offer was 19.00+1%/year over five years.

Please call, as much and as often as possible: 250-546-9438 ext. 202 to ask:

“But I thought coop’s kept money in the community? How do you expect them to survive on $19.00?” “How do you expect them to survive on less than it costs to live?” “But I thought coop values meant that workers are taken care of.” “Are the coop’s employees not paid part of your community?” “Would you be able to subsidize the ARC’s profits by working for $19.00/hour?”

Not asking y’all to be debate bros/sisses/pals on this. Just asking y’all to take up as much of the GM’s special-business-guy-phone-guy time as possible.

Again: 250-546-9438 ext: 202

Thank you in solidarity, Knat


r/canadaleft 3h ago

This is Zionism

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r/canadaleft 12h ago

Canadian Content In the 1960s, a young Indigenous boy named Chanie Wenjack died at the age of 12 while trying to escape a residential school in Canada and return home

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r/canadaleft 12h ago

Suggestions to counteract right-wing YouTube content?

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I have a friend from Taiwan who is constantly sending me these videos he comes across online. They are usually from unaffiliated, very conservative content producers or YouTubers, none of which I've ever heard of. Most are about Trudeau, MAID, street violence, immigration, and other inflammatory topics. "Is this true???" he'll often ask.

I have told him to be wary of his sources, and tried to direct him to other sources like Democracy Now. But he really seems to be draw to these very fiery, sensational talk-heads videos of podcasters and hosts presenting "gotcha" statistics. So the Walrus isn't exactly a good substitution.

Can anyone direct me to some more informed, reliable and progressive content producers? Even YouTubers and the kind of 'hot takes' clips he's drawn to?

Thank you


r/canadaleft 1d ago

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r/canadaleft 12h ago

International news 📰 We won't let them rebuild [Gaza]... Nothing moves, and what moves - dies. That's all. And is attacked and annihilated. - Israel's Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich

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r/canadaleft 17h ago

Laval Amazon workers protest for a fair salary

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r/canadaleft 1d ago

Israeli leaders openly make genocidal statements on Knesset floor

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r/canadaleft 1d ago

Discussion Steve Boots - What the Hell is Jagmeet Singh Doing?

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r/canadaleft 22h ago

'A shadow of its former self': Economists warn about Canada's manufacturing decline

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r/canadaleft 22h ago

HellBerta The End Of Accountability In The Alberta Government | Steve 5 hours ago

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r/canadaleft 1d ago

Meme Ikea employee tells it like it is

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r/canadaleft 18h ago

Bill Pritchard Oral History

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r/canadaleft 1d ago

International news 📰 Canadian and Western sanctions and their 'democratic' mess

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r/canadaleft 1d ago

International news 📰 Trump teases US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada | CNN 1 day ago | Should we be worrying now?

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r/canadaleft 2d ago

Labour news ✊ How Canada Post Undermined the Strike Through Purolator

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r/canadaleft 2d ago

International solidarity ✊ How Our Lives Changed Before and After the War

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Our lives used to be simple and full of hope. Our home was a warm place that brought us together, where we shared joyful moments and dreamed of a better future. But everything changed in an instant.

In a single moment, we lost the sense of safety we had always taken for granted. Our house was bombed, turning from a shelter into rubble we could no longer recognize. That night, we didn’t just lose walls—we lost our memories, our dreams, and everything that made our lives feel normal.

Since then, we’ve been on a challenging journey. We became homeless, carrying only the remnants of our hope and strength. The children who once played freely in the yard now ask, “When can we go home?”

Today, we face harsh conditions, relying on help from friends and strangers who have shown us incredible kindness. We’re trying to rebuild from the ashes and give our children hope for a brighter future. Despite the pain, we continue to stand strong, believing that goodness exists and will reach us someday.

You can support us by donating through this link: https://gofund.me/1222af19

Every contribution, no matter how small, makes a difference and helps ease our suffering. Thank you for standing with us in these difficult times.


r/canadaleft 2d ago

How Canada Post Undermined the Strike Through Purolator

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r/canadaleft 3d ago

International news 📰 Any one that still supports Israel at this stage is a sociopath who should never be trusted NSFW

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r/canadaleft 2d ago

International news 📰 Ottawa's human rights concerns hypocritical: China Daily editorial

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r/canadaleft 3d ago

A mine in the Yukon will be supplying tungsten to the US Department of Defence, against the objections of local Indigenous people.

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r/canadaleft 2d ago

How should socialist prepare for the next federal election?

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Good day comrades. As you're all aware, we have a looming federal election. I'm of the belief that the electoral pendulum is swinging towards the conservatives and there is little that can be done to sway majority of the electorate, who are largely reactionary, away from the Cons. Inevitably, I expect "progressives" to tell us that to stop the conservatives we must take a strategic approach and vote as many liberals and ndp MPs. Many on the left will do what we've always done and campaign for the ndp and some even for the liberals. Many will end up spending however many months, in my opinion, wasting their time carring water for the two "progressive" parties. This is where I need yall opinions.

There is no worker's party that truly wants to engage electoral politics through a class warfare lens. At best we have ndp who will regurgitate keynesian economic policies of yesteryear. Elections are a time of heightened attention to politics and the way that I imagine this will go, many people who oppose conservatives will get funneled into either the ndp or liberal party.

Would it not make sense for Socialists to not waste their time trying to prop up strategic voting, thus propping up the ndp or liberals, rather use this moment to tell people the truth about our electoral system under capitalism and within a settler colonial paradigm, while urging people to get organized against these systems? In other words, use this moment of heightened political engagement to spread class consciousness.

Could a good way of going about this election be identifying for people that we know austerity measures are coming regardless of whichever flavour of liberals are in power, that there is also reactionary social policies on the docket as well, and now is the time to prepare by getting organized and creating/joining structures of dual power by establishing regional community and worker councils that hold mutual aid as a core ideal.

Thanks for reading, and please note that this is not necessarily an appeal to completely abandon or claim obsolete one of the actual existing levers of power in this settler colonial liberal democracy we call kkkanada.


r/canadaleft 3d ago

It's slander to tell settlers what their ancestors did.

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This literally made me chuckle because I haven't heard something this weird in a while. And this person claims they aren't racist (don't they all!).

''I am a colonialist descendant. I live in the present not the past. No I'm not racist.

Trying to destroy my heritage by slandering is tantamount to cultural genocide, the very thing you accuse my ancestors of.''

Oh, sweetie pie... It's not slander when it's the truth! Do tell me more about this genocide of your people in Canada. LOL


r/canadaleft 3d ago

Meme [Class Struggle the meme]- James Rehwald

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r/canadaleft 3d ago

Discussion Really recommend this Marxist analysis on how the US and Canada relate to each other.

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r/canadaleft 3d ago

International news 📰 Leaked EU Report on Israeli War Crimes Makes It Hard for European Foreign Ministers to Deny Complicity

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