*Memo to Minister Kenney : Criticism of Israel is not Anti-Semitic* *by Judy Rebick and Alan Sears (March 1, 2009)* ** As Israeli Apartheid Week gets underway, there is a major campaign currently underway to deny freedom of expression on campus to those in solidarity with Palestine on the basis of a...

Bill 145 Third Reading CUPE 3903: Together All the Way Picketing begins @ 8:00am Mass Rally at Queen's Park @ 9:30am Thursday, January 29, 2009 The Ontario Legislature will vote on Bill 145: York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, on Thursday morning at 10:30am. All CUPE Members, friends, an...

By Peter Drucker, from New Politics AS SEVERAL OF THE PARTICIPANTS in Part I of this symposium noted, the association between lesbians, gays, and the left was a constant through much of the 20th century. It is an open question whether that connection will amount to much in the 21st century. As in ma...

The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa. Naomi Klein The Guardian, Saturday 10 January 2009 It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target o...

Statement by Dr. Rueben Roth for Palestinian Support Rally, Sudbury, January 9, 2008 I regret that I was unable to join you at today’s demonstration. I’m an anti-Zionist Jew, a claim that often confuses and confounds those who have set ideas about the State of Israel and its claim that it repres...

If you would like to sign on to this letter, send an email to antizionistjews@gmail.com with your name and city January 5th, 2009 Like much of the world, we have spent the last week watching in shock and disgust as Israel continues its assault on the Gaza Strip. With the body count rising and a new ...

By John Clarke Now that the crisis of the financial markets has become a crisis of the 'real' economy, it is obvious that those who already face poverty (or live on the edge of it) will be hit extraordinarily hard in the days ahead. Over the last three decades, social programs that served to partial...

by Sherry Wolf In the wake of Barack Obama's historic victory, a false and reactionary narrative has emerged that blames Black voters for the gay marriage ban that passed by a 52 to 48 percent margin in California. While Florida and Arizona also passed same-sex marriage bans, the vote for Prop 8 in ...

David Graeber, Interactivist We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appears scattered and incoherent; the global justice movement a shadow of its...

by Joseph A. Massad Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007 444 pages, $35 hardcover. from: www.solidarity-us.org/node/1962. THE ISSUE OF same-sex sexualities in the Arab world is a political and intellectual minefield, and more so since 9/11 than before. In a bizarre twist, neoconservatives and ...