October 31, 2019

5 Minutes

Culture Uncategorized World

Gaza Fights for Freedom: Repression, animated by the reality of a people’s brave resistance

PV October 31, 2019

Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019) Director: Abby Martin Writers: Mike Prysner, Abby Martin Review by Jay Watts In the wake of the Bush-era box-office popularity of socially engaged documentary films like Fahrenheit 9/11, The...

4 Minutes

Music Notes

Music Notes: Waters to Assange, “Wish You Were Here”

PV October 31, 2019

More than a thousand Julian Assange supporters cheered as Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger introduced Roger Waters at a September 2 demonstration outside the British Home Office. The rally called for an end...

2 Minutes

Federal Election 2019

As in 1959, a call to cut military spending and fund people’s needs

PV October 31, 2019

Sixty years ago, Communist leader Tim Buck thundered against the myth that military spending creates jobs and prosperity. As Pacific Tribune reported, Buck “quoted figures to show that it was the profit motive and...

3 Minutes

Labour Ontario

Ontario: education workers fighting “more than ever” for students

PV October 31, 2019

From the depths of the attic room where it was hidden from public view during the federal election campaign, Doug Ford’s Conservative government appears to have been backing away from much of its aggressive...