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Writing Our Own Future

The following is a written interview conducted with the East Scarborough Tenants Union (ESTU), a people’s organization fighting for working-class tenants in Scarborough Ontario. It outlines the perspective of ESTU,...

Pension Funds and Class Struggle: An Introduction

Pension funds are rarely thought of as exciting institutions, let alone arenas of class warfare. However, the development of pension funds has been deeply shaped by different class interests. They...

Fighting Renovictions and Demovictions

Working class renters in Ottawa are no strangers to displacement. How many of us have received an email or a notice from our landlord saying the landlord wants us to...

Affordable Housing is Being Destroyed

Landlords are taking away affordable housing faster than it can be built.

Who Needs a Landlord?

Who needs a landlord? The mainstream media, the government, and the landlords themselves would all give us the same answer. They would tell us that landlords are necessary. They would...

Tenant Power!

“We need to build tenant power. Building-by-building, and block-by-block.”

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