On September 16, 2021, 100 people were present for a press conference of community members and lawyers representing those who were brutalized and charged by Toronto Police at Lamport Stadium this past July. Meeting in front of Mayor John Tory’s condominium entrance, community members peacefully made speeches highlighting the injustices taking place against the homeless […]

On June 6, the discovery of 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the Kamloops residential school led to massive public outcry across Canada. Since then, more than 5,000 graves have been found at 20 residential schools, bringing Canada’s genocidal history to the forefront of popular consciousness. At Ryerson University, named after one of the […]

Today, Indigenous revolutionary Skyler Williams was arrested after peacefully making a speech in front of Mayor John Tory’s condominium in defense of Toronto’s homeless population. Skyler was apprehended by plainclothes officers and taken to an unmarked van. Activists on the ground believe he is currently being held at 14 Division.  Fightback condemns this act of […]

After four to five years without contracts, Manitoba health-care support staff have voted for strike action. With 97% on favour, the workers are ready to fight. If the Manitoba PCs will not provide their health-care support staff with more than words of praise, the workers should strike to win it.  These workers work for Shared […]

This article is a translation of an article written by La Riposte socialiste activist Benoît Tanguay. After being almost wiped out a few years ago by the Orange Wave, the Bloc Québécois is back on the scene. It is currently in second place in the voting intentions in Quebec. With other parties not enthusing Québécois […]

Anti-vaccine protesters have become a sadly common fixture of the pandemic, but they hit a new low at the beginning of September, targeting hospitals and harassing health-care workers across Canada.  The protests followed announcements from British Columbia Premier John Horgan and Ontario Premier Doug Ford about the implementation of vaccination passports in their respective provinces.  […]

On March 15, 2020, only days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, Ontario’s team of health and safety inspectors received a secret memo ordering them to enforce workplace laws in ways that explicitly risked the lives of workers across Ontario. The secret memo obtained through a freedom-of-information request by a journalist […]

Twenty years ago today, the United States witnessed the biggest and bloodiest attack on its soil in modern history. At least 2,977 men and women died and at least 25,000 were injured after a gang of terrorists crashed a series of commercial aircraft into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, […]

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention day. It’s relevant to shed light on the epidemic of suicide that is raging on in Nunavut. In mid-May this year, Inuit NDP MP for Nunavut Mumilaaq Qaqqaq resigned her position in parliament, stating, “we are facing a suicide epidemic and this institution refuses to care.” Qaqqaq’s resignation brought […]

This election season comes during a year of mass reckoning with Canada’s colonial history. The unearthing of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools sparked a sea change in consciousness about the nature of the Canadian state and its relation to indigenous people. Calls to take the Land Back have grown in frequency and […]