Labour updates from the Asia Pacific region and an interview with Ms. Rafif Jouejati, Local Co-ordinating Committee Syria, on workers in the Syrian uprising.

Sometimes, The Regina Mom wonders why she bothers to write her long blog posts, when others do it excellently with a short quote and video or are capable of piecing together a few headlines.

Pat Mooney is the author of several books on the politics of biotechnology and biodiversity, and the director of the ETC Group. On Feb. 8 he delivered a lecture on the politics of climate change.

Canada's pro-Zionist government is complicit in the blockade of Gaza. The Canada Boat to Gaza challenges the blockade in November 2011.

We don't need the private banks to create our money. We must bring finance under democratic, public control.

I would like to point out that there is nothing naturally wrong with hibernating for the winter. Literally, that is what nature does. A bear goes into its cave to rest, review and dream of spring.

At last, a possible explanation of why Forum's polls have consistently produced better results for the Wildrose Party than other public opinion surveys by other pollsters.

Babble Book Clubs presents a special conversation with Lynn Coady, author of The Antagonist, on March 4, 12:00 p.m. PST/3:00 p.m. EST.

Romeo Saganash outlines his ideas on leadership, the NDP and the future of Canada.

rabble.ca weekly roundup dives into everything from Valentine's Day to Attawapiskat to CBC Reads and the Enbridge pipeline, with a list of fantastic posts by fantastic bloggers.

How times change. Stephen Harper said on December 9, 2005, that his government will preserve Old Age Security for pensions.

Movement elder Marshall Ganz has collated his 50-plus years of writing, researching and organizing experience and posted it on two websites.

On Sunday, February 12, NDP leadership candidates will gather in Quebec to debate matters of foreign policy. Why has there been a reluctance to join in Palestine solidarity campaigns?

rabble has launched a new podcast for people who want to engage in their communities. It features tools from rabble's Activist Toolkit wiki, interviews with local activists, mini-docs and more.

The accident that claimed 11 Peruvian workers' lives was not a tragedy but a crime, linked to the systematic exploitation of foreign and migrant workers in Canada.

There's been some good public debate about the need for changes to the Investment Canada process in light of Caterpillar's incredible actions in London.

This week, I felt it was finally time to take the wraps off of a journal I kept during a two-week trip in 2004 to investigate the conditions of undocumented Chinese migrant farm workers.

The 16th edition of the jhr Rights Report brings attention to gender-based violence faced by women in Canada and around the world.

There's a great family drama going on just beneath the surface of those nearly unwatchable NDP leadership debates. Watchable TV isn't everything.

Micheal Vonn discusses coming bills to expand police surveillance powers, Stephen Staples on the national security establishment and Herman Rosenfeld analyzes the co-ordinated campaign against unions.

Have you got rabble? Check out Not Rex's commercial spot for the rabble.ca fundraiser!

Any observer of the hardball game of politics has to give Alberta's budget an A+ for pre-election optics, even if it only gets a C- for prognostication.

We report on the Enbridge oil spilling company and continued resistance against their pipelines, provide some info on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and read a protest against hydraulic fracturing.

Aaron Leonard interviews literary critic and Marxist political theorist, Fredric Jameson on Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One, that revisits Karl Marx's most important work, Capital.

A5X, a growing group of citizens, are urging people to contact Jean Charest and other politicians to save the Wakefield Spring and old-growth trees in Gatineau Park.