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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