Management
at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is trying to force through a new
contract on their employees – a contract eliminating restrictions on the
broadcaster's ability to contract out work instead of hiring full-time
employees. They have now applied a lock-out and it looks like it is going to a
long and bitter struggle.
Telus
workers across BC and Alberta have been on the picket lines since
Thursday July 21st, making it clear that they will not roll over and
take the offer that the company is trying to impose. In five years
without a contract, the members of the Telecommunications Workers Union
have put up with Telus stalling, conniving, and repeatedly bargaining
in bad faith, in a blatant attempt to break the union.
Fightback
calls for the nationalization of telecommunications under democratic
workers’ control, as the only solution to the problems of poor
management at Telus.
The Marxists in Canada are launching a new website – www.marxist.ca, and a new publication – Fightback. We support their call for all Canadians who read In Defence of Marxism and agree with the ideas of the International Marxist Tendency to contact them and join their fight. We welcome Fightback and www.marxist.ca as new comrades in the struggle, and we are confident that they will become the key organisers for revolutionaries in Canada. We are publishing three articles from issue #1 of Fightback.
After nearly four years of attacks by the Gordon Campbell Liberals,
British Columbia workers are fighting back. With the NDP in a position
to win May’s provincial election, a major confrontation is set to take
place between rank-and-file workers and the leaders of the NDP and
labour movement. The task of the Marxists is to penetrate these
organizations and sow them with ideas that can win.