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This article discusses recent developments, including occupations and radical workers centers in the context of rank‐and‐file resistance and alternative organizing, and emerging challenges to union bureaucracies, in the current period in Canada's industrial heartland. Occupations provide a possibly crucial turning point in the working‐class response to capitalist economic crisis and in the formation and structure of working‐class organizing and struggle. In order to properly understand the development of occupations it is important to look at the present context of their emergence. This means situating occupations within the limiting practices of legal union structures. It also means, crucially, looking at the erosion of working‐class infrastructures of resistance, those institutions and spaces that have sustained struggles of the working classes and the oppressed, and situating occupations as part of broader attempts to renew those infrastructures. Infrastructures of resistance help people and communities to develop the capacities to sustain human struggles over time and place. They provide a basis for self‐directing these struggles strategically. They also allow for the crucial connection between local and immediate struggles and campaigns and broader and more thoroughgoing projects of contesting existing social structures. The article includes a discussion of attempts to (re)build infrastructures of resistance in Windsor, Ontario.

Few social movements in North America have enjoyed as much of a revival in the twenty‐first century as anarchism. In the years prior to the Seattle World Trade Organization (WTO) protests of 1999, and especially following the success of those demonstrations, anarchism has reemerged as a vibrant political force. Yet, little attention has been given to ongoing organizing practices undertaken by anarchists as part of struggles in communities and workplaces. The lack of informed analysis of anarchist politics has meant that the actual practices and intentions of this major, and growing, contemporary movement remain obscured.

Examines the growing "No to 2010" movement against the Vancouver-Whistler Olympic Winter Games scheduled to take place on un-surrendered Native lands in British Columbia. Indigenous people, anti-poverty activists, & others oppose the February 2010 games on the basis of unresolved land claims; destruction of the traditional homelands of local Indigenous peoples; & the displacement of poor people in low-income communities. "No to 2010" is discussed as part of a potentially global movement against destructive development projects. Adapted from source document

Describes the efforts of Canada's Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy to reclaim lands belonging to their community that have been sold by the government for the construction of residential subdivisions. Claims against new developments on currently undeveloped lands are reviewed to point out the violent struggle between the Six Nations people & non-native residents of towns that border a reclamation site. Suggestions are offered for ways to lessen the conflicts & thwart the quest of greedy real estate developers to transform the Canadian countryside into a sprawling suburbia. Adapted from the source document

Capitalism as a global system barely allows the needs of the majority of the world's population to be met. Whether from an industrialized country such as the US or from South Africa, the need for an alternative can be felt all over the world. It is clear nowadays that, due to the non-democratic nature and inadequacies of capitalism, another system must take its place. Such a process has already begun through the cooperative movement, which this book examines along with other initiatives. Featuring essays by international scholars and activists from various spheres of the anti-capitalist left