Come out to help build the movement for $15 and Fairness in Halifax. Campaigns for $15 and Fairness have already been successful in Alberta, Ontario, and BC, with these provincial governments promising a gradual wage hike to $15 over the next few years. Meanwhile, NS has one of the lowest minimum wages in the country … [Read More]
Conversations on climate action, good jobs, and rights for workers and Indigenous communities. Nova Scotia needs new goals for climate action, and a new way of looking at climate justice. Groups have called for public engagement on the development of two wide-reaching pieces of climate and environmental policy with the Government of Nova Scotia: the … [Read More]
Join the Fight for Fifteen and Fairness campaign for lunch-hour petitioning at the Quinpool Road entrance to the Atlantic Superstore. 6139 Quinpool Rd, Halifax 12 PM – 1 PM Premier McNeil is raising the minimum wage this year by a pitiful 15 cents. His Liberals are literally nickel-and-diming Nova Scotians at a time when Ontario’s … [Read More]
Bring union flags and banners! In response to the National Day of Action called by the Fight for $15 and Fairness Campaign, the Ontario Federation of Labour and LeadNow.ca, we are ralling with communities across Canada in solidarity with workers in Ontario who are fighting to defend their victories of a $15 minimum wage and … [Read More]
Solidarity Halifax is hosting a conference on the weekend of Friday November 3rd to Sunday November 5th at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre in Halifax. The title and theme of the conference is ‘Organizing for the Long Haul’, with a focus on the need for long-term organization on the Left. The conference will also aim to … [Read More]
On October 11, 2017, the Radical Imagination Project hosted the Halifax launch of “Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance” (2017, AK Press). The launch featured a panel discussion focusing on the question of when, how, and under what conditions exploited and oppressed peoples rise up to create radical and revolutionary … [Read More]
The Eco-Justice Committee of Solidarity Halifax supports struggles against climate change and environmental destruction. We work from an understanding of capitalism, ongoing colonialism, and environmental racism. Recognizing the failure of the Left to properly or effectively address issues of the environment, Solidarity Halifax proposes the following considerations for anti-capitalist organizing. We expect these to constantly … [Read More]
This Labour Day, Michelle Malette of Solidarity Halifax delivered the following speech to those assembled for the celebrations. Solidarity Halifax is an anti-capitalist organization based here in the city. We see capitalism as an unjust economic system that puts profit ahead of the needs of people and the planet, and we promote strategies to oppose … [Read More]
Solidarity Halifax member Larry Haiven wrote an op-ed at the Nova Scotia Advocate to denounce Premier McNeil’s Bill 148 which imposes a four-year wage package on public employees. Larry Haiven is professor emeritus of labour relations at Saint Mary’s University, a research associate of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova Scotia, and a … [Read More]
The limits of what is thought possible in the world of public policy and politics is as much a matter of subjective imagination as it is a matter of empirical economic and fiscal reality. Whether it be universal health care coverage, public pensions, or even our basic social safety net, every major social policy achievement … [Read More]