Journalism with movements in the South
by Dawn Paley Jan 3, 2023 4 min read Share The left in Canada and the U.S. is increasingly divided on the question of how best to … Read More
Category: Briarpatch
Women Winning Office: The limits of electoral strategy
It’s not often that the left writes with optimism. Long-time labour activist and NDP politician Peggy Nash’s recent book, Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide to Getting Elected, combines detailed … Read More
Keeping justice in a just transition
Letter from the Editor by Saima Desai Nov 1, 2022 3 min read Share Back in 2019, Briarpatch published a special Just Transition Issue. The editorial collective … Read More
Exiting the revolving door
by Sophie Jin Nov 1, 2022 8 min read Share Donnie MacLean worked at the same non-profit for nearly 13 years before mustering the nerve to quit. … Read More
“We inhabit a land; the land inhabits us”
by Sophie Jin Nov 1, 2022 12 min read Share Now in its 12th year, Briarpatch’s annual Writing in the Margins contest spotlights new poetry, creative non-fiction, … Read More
Building farm worker power
by Hannah Kaya and Hannen Sabean Nov 1, 2022 12 min read Share Katherine Spilka has spent a decade working on farms. She recently worked on one … Read More
How Quebec workers won – and kept – anti-scab laws
by Liam Devitt Nov 1, 2022 11 min read Share Jacques Sauvé was the first to go down. “It all happened so quickly and so violently that … Read More
Indigenous labour struggles
by Mike Gouldhawke Nov 1, 2022 7 min read Share Indigenous people have always been active in labour struggles, both as part of the wider labour movement … Read More
“With our own hands”
Reflections from workers fighting wage theft in Brampton by Simran Kaur Dhunna and Parmbir Gill Nov 1, 2022 24 min read Share “Do whatever you want, run … Read More
Planting trees in a coal mine
by Jennie Long and Caleb Cohen Nov 1, 2022 14 min read Share The first thing we were told when we started working as tree planters for … Read More
Class inaction
by Megan Linton Nov 1, 2022 15 min read Share In July 2021, survivors of the Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) – once known as the … Read More
A reading list on labour’s role in a just transition
by Joshua K. McEvoy Nov 1, 2022 6 min read Share From resource extraction and transportation to construction and logistics, how we manage our world must change … Read More
The case for large-scale workers’ media in Canada
by David Gray-Donald Nov 1, 2022 5 min read Share Remember that terrible Maclean’s cover? You might be thinking of one of the Islamophobic ones. Or “The … Read More
The oil industry’s Frankenstein
In February, the Freedom Convoy descended on Ottawa, choking streets with trucks and protesters demanding an end to mask mandates, vaccinations, and lockdowns. Maksim Sokolov/Wikimedia Commons. Amid the cacophony of conspiracies, … Read More
Future on Fire: Defending a ravaged planet
Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change by David Camfield, Fernwood Publishing, October 2022 In June 2022, a 24-year-old UPS driver, Esteban Chavez, died while delivering packages in … Read More