21.04.2026 à 20:17
BOUCHARD Sébastien
Sébastien Bouchard — a union activist and Québec solidaire militant — revisits the 2001 campaign against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and its legacy. He argues that the 60,000-strong Peoples' March and the continental convergence of social movements helped defeat the FTAA in 2005, but failed to dismantle existing agreements such as NAFTA. The resulting deindustrialisation fed the polarisation that Donald Trump now exploits. Bouchard calls for the revival of an alterglobalist (…)
- Social movements (Canada, Quebec)21.04.2026 à 20:10
FRAPPIER André
Québec solidaire activist André Frappier reports on the 1st International Antifascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples, held in Porto Alegre in late March 2026. Attending as the only participant from Quebec, he assesses both the conference's achievements and its political limits — particularly the dominance of campist positions that obscured solidarity with the Ukrainian people and with Russian dissidents, imprisoned or in exile. He credits 'consistent internationalist' comrades (…)
- Anti-fascism Movements (international) / Ukraine2022, Québec Solidaire, RESU / ENSU (Ukraine, Europe), ENSU, Conference Porto Alegre 202621.04.2026 à 17:51
TARIQ Farooq
(Lahore) On the call of the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, protest demonstrations were organized in more than 100 cities across the country on April 17, International Day of Peasants. Video A tractor March at my home town Toba Tek Singh went on despite police effort to stop it. On the call of the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, nationwide protests held on April 17, marking International Day of Peasants At Burewala, police used Lathi charge, beating protestors with wooden sticks (…)
- Rural & fisherfolk (Pakistan) / PKRC (Pakistan), Wheat, Rights (Peasants), Peasantry / Peasants / Farmers, Minimum support price (MSP), Program (agriculture)