Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
International
Toronto: Indigenous youth set up camp for justice
Young indigenous women have set up a permanent camp outside Toronto Old Town Hall in the struggle for justice for the many murdered and disappeared indigenous women, girls and even men – the latest two […]
Catalonia
Powerful end to general strike in Barcelona as dockers join huge demonstration
Film length: 4:00 General strike, Barcelona: Just when we thought the day couldn’t get any better …. 1,000 dockers march up the Ramblas to join the main demonstration of the day, led by women – […]
Transport
BA Strike: Shocked MPs call cabin crew’s poverty pay “a national scandal”
Film length: 9:13 Around 200 British Airways cabin crew descended on Parliament for a meeting with MPs during their third strike over poverty pay. Shocked MPs called their £12K basic salary and horrendous conditions “a […]