Tag Archives: anti-austerity

Radio: British Columbia’s general strike that almost was

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Scott

David Spaner is a long-time writer based in Vancouver and the author of Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983 (Ronsdale Press, 2021). Scott Neigh interviews him about the book and about the uprising against a right-wing government in British Columbia … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting austerity in Manitoba in the middle of a pandemic

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Scott

Brendan Devlin and Shaden Abusaleh are university students and organizers with Communities Not Cuts Manitoba. Scott Neigh interviews them about the political situation in their province and about what it looks like to fight austerity during the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic … Continue reading →

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Radio — Building a movement against budget cuts in Saskatchewan

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with JoAnn Jaffe and Peter Garden. They are fighting back against the massive wave of cuts to social programs and privatization initiated earlier this year by the provincial government … Continue reading →

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Radio — Defending public services during the election and beyond

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309839898-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-135-oct-142015-defending-public-services-during-the-election-and-beyond.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Wendy Goldsmith and Dru Oja Jay. They work at Friends of Public Services, a very new organization that is mobilizing people during the election campaign to fight against … Continue reading →

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Radio — The Red Hand Coalition and the fight against austerity in Quebec

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309701512-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-93-dec-102014-the-red-hand-coalition-and-the-fight-against-austerity-in-quebec.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I talk with Joël Pedneault of  the Red Hand Coalition, one of the main province-wide formations opposing austerity measures in Quebec, about the trajectory of resistance to those measures in recent … Continue reading →

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