How the RCMP spied on the Indigenous rights movementWhat the RCMP feared most was not really “violence,” but the broadening and strengthening of the Indigenous movement.
DRIPA, private property, and Eby’s betrayal of Indigenous peopleAny reformist government that takes private property and production for profit as a given will, sooner or later, have to bend to the whims of the capitalist market. This inevitably means violating the rights of Indigenous people.
Federal infrastructure bill infuriates Indigenous groupsCanada’s ruling class previously conciliated with indigenous leaders to avoid a social explosion. But now they are no longer able to maintain this balancing act.
Assembly of First Nations throws doors open for Pierre PoilievrePierre Poilievre was given time to speak at the most recent Assembly of First Nations general assembly. This demonstrates that there is a layer of Indigenous capitalists who are seeking rapprochement with the system to get a piece of the pie for themselves.
Embroiled in racism and corruption, Thunder Bay Police Service faces new calls to disband“The Thunder Bay Police Service has turned into a cold-case factory.”
This condemnation from Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation was made amid what are just the most recent calls to disband the police service.
Indigenous liberation: capitalism or communism?There’s a fifth column within the Indigenous movement. A layer of capitalist natives in alliance with the state are co-opting the struggle to divert it along a harmless path.
Australia’s ‘Indigenous Voice’: Racism, reformism… or revolution?On 14 October, Australians will vote on establishing a government advisory body for matters relating to the country’s Indigenous population, which would be enshrined in the constitution. At the time of writing, support for this ‘Indigenous Voice’ to parliament is languishing in the polls, much to the distress of the liberals. In reality, however, neither the government’s feeble, reformist Voice, nor the unvarnished racism of the opposition, offers anything to Australian workers, Indigenous or otherwise.
‘We are not trash’: Government refuses to search landfill for murdered Indigenous womenAs if looking for the most sure-fire way to prove that they do not value the lives of Indigenous women any more than they value garbage, the Canadian state is currently involved in a morbid game of political hot potato to avoid searching the Prairie Green Landfill in Manitoba for the bodies of three Indigenous […]
Four years later, nothing has been done about missing and murdered Indigenous womenAfter the fourth anniversary of the report on missing and murdered Indigenous women, how many of the calls for justice have actually been fulfilled: 100? 50? 10? No. The answer is two out of 231.
Capitalists ignore suicide crisis in Indigenous communitiesA mental health crisis is sweeping its way across Canada, with Indigenous groups facing the brunt of it.
