Every year labour activists from across British Columbia descend
on the town of Cumberland
for Miner's Memorial Day. The annual
event is held to commemorate the hundreds of workers who died in Cumberland's coal mines and
murdered socialist Ginger Goodwin. Comrades
from the International Marxist Tendency are always present for the ceremony,
but this year we played a much larger role.
On the evening of Friday June 2nd, Police and Security
Forces arrested 17 men in the Greater Toronto Area on terrorism
charges. For Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the
arrests come at a convenient time when support is slipping for the
Canadian intervention in Afghanistan. The corporate media and
right-wing politicians are attempting to use the fear of terrorism to
erode civil liberties in Canada.
We are publishing a discussion document written by the Fightback editorial board. It attempts to outline the dominant trends within the Canadian labour movement to give youth and worker militants a guide to action.