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March 12, 2010 - No. 53

47th Anniversary of the Founding of the Internationalists
• The Legacy of the Internationalists and Their Founder, Hardial Bains, Lives On! - Charles Boylan
• Thinking About the Sixties - Hardial Bains

March 11, 2010 - No. 52

U.S. Steel
• How Many More Ways Can U.S. Steel Get a Break on Their Pension Obligations! - Rolf Gerstenberger, President, Local 1005 USW

Vale Inco
• Mediated Negotiations Break Off -- Striking Vale Inco Workers Stand Firm - Steve Rutchinski
• Canada Is Not for Sale -- Vale Inco Workers Call for Tony Clement to Resign
• Striking Vale Inco Workers and their Allies Demand Fair Deal Now
• Steelworkers Picket Vale Inco's Strikebreaking Thugs
• International Meetings for Those Affected by Vale

Xstrata
• Ontario Government Must Uphold Public Right!
• Militant Rally at Nickel Rim South Mine in Sudbury

March 10, 2010 - No. 51

Federal Budget
• Hysteria over National Debt and Deficits - Interview, K.C. Adams
• Karl Marx on the National Debt and Primitive Accumulation

For Your Information
• Statistical Confirmation of Annexation of Canada's Manufacturing, Mining and Oil and Gas Sectors

March 9, 2010 - No. 50

Health Care Is a Right!
• Ontario Goverment Must Increase Funding for Health Care! No to Privatization, Closures and Cutbacks!
• Schemes to Force Restructuring of Health Care and Silence Opposition - Ontario Health Coalition
• Consultants' Report Advocates Competition for "Patient-Based Payments"

Interviews
• Doug Allan, CUPE Research Representative
• Andy Summers, Vice-President, Ontario Nurses Association 
• Sue Hotte, Co-Chair, Niagara Health Coalition
• Denis Allard, Vice-President, CUPE 1101, West Nipissing Ambulance Services
• Sue Brown, OPSEU, Local 636, North East Mental Health Centre, North Bay 
• Sheryl Ferguson, President, OPSEU Local 431, Providence Care Hospital, Kingston
• Mike Tomatuk, CUPE 4313, Payukotayno Child and Family Services, Moose Factory

March 8, 2010 - No. 49

International Women's Day
• All Out to Celebrate International Women's Day by Reaffirming the Rights of All! - Statement of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Toronto Demonstration Vigorously Demands Funding for Social Programs and Recognition of Rights
• World March of Women Launched in Montreal

Federal Budget
• Debate on the Economy Is Blocked by Those in Power

March 5, 2010 - No. 48

International Women's Day 2010 -- All Out to Celebrate International Women's Day by Reaffirming Our Fight for the Rights of All!
• What It Means to Be "Strong" - Dagmar Sullivan
• Urgent Need to Strengthen Public Enterprise to Protect Women Who Are Victims of Violence - Peggy Morton
• Harper Government's Arrogant Denial of Responsibility for the Problem of Women's Impoverishment - Elaine Couto

Fourth Anniversary of Harper Government's "Universal" Child Care Benefit
• Workers Need a National Child Care Program! - Christine Nugent

Haiti
• Women Honour Leaders Who Died in the Earthquake

SUPPLEMENT
• Centenary of 1910 Resolution to Establish International Women's Day: History of International Women's Day - Janice Murray
• Canada Ranks 47th: Women's Participation in Electoral Politics - Nicole LeBlanc

March 4, 2010 - No. 47

Latin America and the Caribbean
• Condolences to the Chilean People

Cuba
• Whose Interests Are Some Canadian Media Serving with Lies About Cuba? - Isaac Saney, Canadian Network on Cuba
• For Whom Is Death a Useful Tool? - Enrique Ubieta Gómez, Granma International
• The Shamelessness of the United States Government - Granma International
• Cuba Decries Political Hypocrisy in Geneva - Radio Havana Cuba

Haiti
• Reconstruction Must Be Shaped by Haitian Hands and Priorities! - Statement of the Canada Haiti Action Network

Honduras
• Thousands of Zelaya Supporters Renew Protests

Venezuela
• Torontonians Say Hands Off Venezuela!
• Call for Renewed Solidarity with Venezuela In the Midst of Public Attacks by the Canadian Government - Statement of the Latin American Solidarity Network

Uruguay
• José Mujica Assumes Presidency

March 3, 2010 - No. 46

Federal Budget
• The Government, Economy and Our Accumulated Resources Must Serve the Well-Being of Canadians

Vale Inco
• Hands Off Strikeforce 6500! Anti-Worker Mercenaries Have No Right of Anonymity -- Condemn Vale Inco's Attempt to Impose Censorship on Striking Workers - Dave Starbuck
• Sudbury News in Brief

Timmins, Ontario
• Reply to Minister of Northern Development - Ben Lefebvre

March 2, 2010 - No. 45

March 1-14
• Building International Solidarity During Israeli Apartheid Week - Ilaria Giglioli, Electronic Intifada
• Canadian Government Condemned for Defunding Pro-Palestinian Organizations - CAIA
• Carleton Students Discover University's Links to Military Occupation and Launch Divestment Campaign - SAIA-Carleton
• Montreal: 500 Artists Against Israeli Apartheid
• Humanitarian Aid to Subvert Palestinian Refugee Rights -- Not on Our Watch! - Statement of the Palestinian National Committee for the Commemoration of the Nakba
• Israel Claims Palestinian Holy Sites - MIFTAH

SUPPLEMENT
• Israel Works to Change International Law - Jeff Halper, Palestine Telegraph

March 1, 2010 - No. 44

Windsor, Ontario
• Workers Oppose Wrecking of Auto Sector and Public Services - Pierre Chénier
• "We Have to Keep Fighting -- Fighting Back Makes a Difference" - Interview, Gerry Farnham, President, CAW Local 195
• "Times Are Tough But There Is an Alternative" - Interview, Dave Croswell, Financial Secretary, CAW Local 200
• "Our Strike Was Aimed at Protecting the Public Services" - Interview, Pat Strople, Steward, CUPE Local 543 (City of Windsor Inside Workers)
• "We Are Glad We Took on the Fight" - Interview, Taxi Drivers from Veteran Cab Unit, CAW Local 195

February 27, 2010 - No. 43

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics
• A Modern Canadian Identity for the 21st Century - Sandra L. Smith
• Own the Podium -- A Negation of the Spirit of Friendship and Solidarity - Peggy Morton
• The Need for a Modern Definition of Olympic Sports - Peggy Morton
• BC Speech from the Throne: Words and Deeds - Charles Boylan
• Unceded "British Columbia" - Kim Petersen, The Dominion
• Vocal Native Artist Removed From Olympic Artisan Village For Refusing Censorship - First Perspective
• Letters to the Editor
• Calendar of Events

For Your Information
• Gold Doesn't Come Cheap - Maclean's
• Canada Group Makes Medals Its Business - Wall Street Journal

From the Party Press
• A Modern Canadian Identity for the 21st Century - Sandra L. Smith, TML Weekly, October 3, 1999

February 26, 2010 - No. 42

Vale Inco
• It's Time for Vale Inco to Give Up Its Demand for Concessions - Steve Rutchinski
• Toronto Rally in Support of Striking Vale Inco Workers

Quebec Common Front Negotiations
• No Concessions on Wages and Working Conditions Imposed Through Decree!
• Education Is a Right! Students Demonstrate Against Tuition Fee Hikes

International
• Massive Strike Action Shuts Down Greece - Radio Havana Cuba
• Obama Health Plan Leaves Millions Uninsured, Boosts Private Insurers - Physicians for National Health Program
• Unexplored Oil Reserves in the South Atlantic: Towards a New Falklands Conflict? Little England Struts Again - Finian Cunningham, Global Research
• What Is at Stake in the Falklands - Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO

February 25, 2010 - No. 41

Pension Debate
• Pension Plans Yes! Savings Plans No! Pensions for All with Guaranteed Defined Benefits! - Workers' Centre of CPC(M-L)
• Human-Centred Pensions and Seniors' Care

Information Update, USW Local 1005
• Wrecking on the Pension Front
• Is U.S. Steel's Purchase of Stelco a 'Net Benefit' To Canada? "You Be the Judge: Don't be Fooled" - Jake Lombardo, Plant Grievance Chairman, USW Local 1005
• Two-Tier Pensions - Ron Wells, Executive Member, USW Local 1005
• Letters to the Editor

• OFL/CLC Pension Summit

Ontario NDP Proposal for a Retirement Savings Plan
• Pensions Are a Social Program - Commentary, K.C. Adams

February 24, 2010 - No. 40

Historic Latin American and Caribbean Unity Summit
• Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELC) Creates Organization to Replace the OAS!

Evo Morales Speaks to the Mexican People
• "We All Have a Responsibility to Save Humanity"

Haiti -- One Month After the Earthquake
• Harper Praises Military Spending as Key to Aid Effort in Haiti
• Water, but Not Blessed - Leticia Martínez Hernández, Granma International

Coming Events
• Hamilton Public Lecture and Discussion on Cuba's Environmental & Social Advances
• Toronto and Montreal Venezuela Solidarity Rallies

February 23, 2010 - No. 39

• Sanctions and War-Mongering against Iran
• Iran Deplores Political Approach to Nuclear Case - Press TV
• Israel Launches Drone Fleet 'Able to Reach Iran' - Press TV
• NATO's Role in the Military Encirclement of Iran - Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO

Europe's Five "Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States"
• Are Turkey, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy Nuclear Powers? - Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research

February 22, 2010 - No. 38

• The U.S. Concept of Absolute Military Superiority
• Hillary Clinton's Prescription: Make the World a NATO Protectorate - Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO

February 19, 2010 - No. 37

Ontario College Teachers
• Provincial Government and Its Agencies Make Mockery of Rule of Law
• Mudslinging, Intimidation and a Rigged Vote Do Not Equal a Mandate for the Imposed Contract - Dave Starbuck
• The Heart of the Matter - Blog entry, www.collegeprof.ca

McCarthyism in Canada
• Gaza Photo Exposition Threatened with Closure - Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

February 18, 2010 - No. 36

• Origin of the Investment Canada Act Is Found in Neo-Liberal Nation-Wrecking - K.C. Adams

Plans for Cape Breton Island's Donkin Mine
• Xstrata's Nation-Wrecking Agenda - A Researcher in Halifax

February 17, 2010 - No. 35

Alberta Budget
• What is the Aim?
• Attacks on the Most Vulnerable - Peggy Askin
• Further Attacks on the Right to Health Care - Peggy Morton
• Education Is a Right, Not a "Balance" - Kevan Hunter
• Letter to the Editor

Venezuela
• Day of Youth: Tens of Thousands of Students Rally in Support of Chavez - Kiraz Janicke, Venezuelanalysis.com

February 16, 2010 - No. 34

Toronto -- Support Transit Workers!
• Oppose Management and Monopoly Media Slanders Against TTC Drivers!
• TTC Workers' Union Holds Press Conference - Remarks by Bob Kinnear, President, ATU Local 113

Letter to the Editor
• Why Transit Workers? Why Now?

International
• The Need for Democratic Renewal in Mexico - Claude Brunelle
• Colored Revolutions: A New Form of Regime Change, Made in USA - Eva Golinger, Postcards from the Revolution

February 15, 2010 - No. 33

Vale Inco
• Oppose Monopoly Right and the Use of Replacement Workers!

Vancouver and Toronto
• Annual Memorial Marches Demand an End to Missing Women
Afghanistan
• What Are the Goals of the Afghan Operation?
• Afghan Surge Begins

Honduras
• "Truth Commission" Amidst Torture and Assassinations - Annie Bird, Rights Action
• National Front of Popular Resistance, Communiqué No. 47

February 12, 2010 - No. 32

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics -- Let Us Together Fight for Human-Centred Sporting Events!

How You Spend Your Money
• Let Us Together Fight for Human-Centred Sporting Events!
• Olympics $8 Billion Price Tag

• All Out for 18th Annual Memorial Women's March! No More Missing Women!

• Militarization of Vancouver and Whistler - StopWar Statement
• A Review of the 2010 Torch Trajectory - Shailagh Keaney, The Dominion

Montreal
• Fee Increases for Recreation, Sports, Cultural and Community Facilities - Serge Lachapelle

February 11, 2010 - No. 31

• Oppose Monopoly Attempts to Raise Anarchy to Authority

U.S. Steel
• Steelworkers Protest U.S. Steel's 'Wholesale Indifference'

Vale Inco
• Voisey's Bay Workers Burn Latest Company Offer

Xstrata
• Workers Demand Moratorium on Xstrata Kidd Creek Metallurgical Site Closure
• CAW Press Release

Monopolies Versus the People and Their Communities
• Resolving the Contradiction in the Economy Between the General and the Particular Will Open a Path to a People's Canada - K.C. Adams

February 10, 2010 - No. 30

Haiti
• The Endless Tragedy
• UNASUR Approves Multilateral Fund to Rebuild Haiti
• Cuban Vice President Lazo Visits Haiti
• Report on Cuba's Steadfast Internationalist Assistance
• Legislative Elections Postponed
• Protecting Haiti's Interest  - John Maxwell, The Jamaican Observer

February 9, 2010 - No. 29

Quebec Party Financing Bill
• Increasing Public Funding to Political Parties Will Not Strengthen the Democratic Institutions! Finance the Process, Not the Parties!
• PMLQ Brief on Bill 78

Venezuela
• Day of National Dignity: More than 100,000 March in Support of Chavez - Kiraz Janicke, Venezuelanalysis.com
• Oppose Canada's Interference in Venezuela's Internal Affairs!
• U.S. Continues Attempts to Destabilize Venezuela

February 8, 2010 - No. 28

• The Politics and Economics of Nation-Building
• Mine Mill-Xstrata Settlement Sets Pattern of No Concessions in Canadian Mining

2010 Winter Olympics
• Olympic Flame Parades Through Ravaged Northern British Columbia - Roger Annis

February 5, 2010 - No. 27

Ontario College Faculty -- February 10 Vote on "Final Offer"
• Colleges Must Withdraw Demands for Workload Concessions! A Comprehensive Solution that Upholds the Rights of All is Required! - Dave Starbuck and Steve Rutchinski, Ontario Community Colleges Group, Workers' Centre of CPC(M-L)
• OPSEU Recommends Rejection and Delays Strike Deadline - OPSEU
• Count the Ballots! One Year After the Ontario College Part-Time Faculty Certification Vote - Christine Nugent
• What's Going On? - Daniel Cerri, Fortnightly

Latin America
• Indigenous Leader Evo Morales Ayma Re-Elected in Bolivia - Maria Elena Parada

Asia
• U.S. Increases Air Strikes in Pakistan
• U.S. Military Threats Force China to Boost Its Defense Budget - Cheng Guangjin, China Daily

February 4, 2010 - No. 26

• Modern Definitions of Political Economy

February 3, 2010 - No. 25

• Vale's "One Mine" Disconnect
• Capital-Centred Restructuring versus Human-Centred Renewal
• Vale's Capital-Centred View on Production Costs

February 2, 2010 - No. 24

Toronto Workers Demand Justice for Four Migrant Workers Killed on the Job
• Justice for the Victims! Defend the Right of all Workers to Healthy and Safe Working Conditions!
• No Such Thing as a Swing Stage "Accident" - Jim Nugent
• Workers and Community Members Mobilize to Demand Justice and Defend the Rights of All

Statements
• No One Is Illegal-Toronto
• Ontario Federation of Labour
• Laborers International Union of North America
For Your Information
• Review of Workplace Safety System - Government of Ontario

February 1, 2010 - No. 23

• Vale Inco Must Rehire All Fired Workers!

Ontario College Faculty Negotiations
• Untruths the Colleges Council Is Spreading - Dave Starbuck
• Collective Bargaining Announcement to All Faculty - OPSEU CAAT(A) Division
• For Your Information: Final Report of the Workload Taskforce

Honduras
• President Manuel Zelaya Forced Out of Country