Special to Canadian Dimension
May 2008

Introduction: The Historical Context

to student unions and social movements across Quebec and Canada.

Declaration from L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante.

Special to CAnadian Dimension
May 1, 2008

Introduction
From the middle of the 19th century but especially after the Second World War, two models of empire building competed on a world scale: One predominantly based on military conquests, involving direct invasions, proxy invading armies and subsidized separatist military forces; and the other predominantly [...]

May Actions Against Israeli Apartheid in Montreal.

Join in Actions & Events taking place in Montreal throughout the month of
May 2008, which marks sixty years of struggle against Israeli apartheid.

How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago
end up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians?

by Johann Hari, the Independent, Monday, April 28th.

When you hit your 60th birthday, most of you will guzzle down your hormone replacement therapy with a glass of champagne and wonder if you have become everything you dreamed of in your youth. [...]

Haaretz. April 20th, 2008.

Photo: Egypt/’Israel’ border.

Egyptian police shot and wounded two Africans, from Mali and Kenya, who tried to slip over Egypt’s desert frontier into Israel on Sunday, security sources said.

Special to Canadian Dimension
April 12, 2008

Over the past century, a line has divided the left around the world. On one side sit “progressive forces” willing to support imperialism and war, usually in return for a “seat at the table” or some other perk of power. The most discussed example of Left support for imperialism was [...]

IPS. March, 12th. Analysis by Rebecca Murray

Photo: Opposition protests in Beirut.

Tyre, Lebanon — Soon after the U.S. destroyer USS Cole was deployed off Lebanon’s shore Feb. 28 to “preserve political stability”, a group of young men gathered around in the embattled agricultural town Qana in south Lebanon, and voiced their fears.