The settler government has consistently violated indigenous sovereignty and the right to self determination in the interests of white capitalist profit and racist social policy.
Category: First Nations
Will Indigenous Languages Survive?
Cultural genocide is an explosive term – but not too strong when applied to the fate of many languages of Indigenous people across North America, Turtle Island. According to 2016 Canadian census data, the mother tongue of over 213,000 people…
Big turnout for SA “Celebrate 150 Years of Resistance” on July 7!
A mostly young crowd of about one hundred, including several indigenous women activists, attended the Socialist Action gala "Celebrate 150 Years of Resistance to Colonialism, Genocide, Exploitation and Environmental Plunder" at OISE U of Toronto on the evening of July…
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Guest speaker Ajamu Nangwaya on Apartheid Did Not Die
Video of the Socialist Action Rebel Film night discussion that followed the screening of John Pilger's documentary 'Apatheid Did Not Die.' Guest speaker, Ajamu Nangwaya, educator, and organizer with the Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity, spoke about the role of the…
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Humour – an unlikely weapon for Aboriginal Rights
by Barry Weisleder A review of “The Inconvenient Indian – A Curious Account of Native People in North America” by Thomas King, published by Anchor Canada, a division of Random House, 2013, 314 pages. Thomas King, best known as the…
Humour – an unlikely weapon for Aboriginal Rights
by Barry Weisleder A review of “The Inconvenient Indian – A Curious Account of Native People in North America” by Thomas King, published by Anchor Canada, a division of Random House, 2013, 314 pages. Thomas King, best known as the…
OCAP Says No to Welfare Merger/Cuts
by John Wilson On New Year's day 2014 there's not much to celebrate for those who are unemployed, low-waged, who rely on welfare, or live on disability benefits in Ontario. To make matters worse, only 35 per cent of the…