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“A blockade is not freedom; it blocks the liberty of all,” tweeted Bob Rae, Canada’s representative to the United Nations.

A trucker whos leading a protest this week along DCs Capital Beltway likened the event to a giant snake hunting, killing, and eating its prey. Hundreds of big rigs are expected to gather in DC this week

After over about fourteen days of turbulent dissent, this week, the Canadian government pushed back. On Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau conjured the country's Emergencies Act, empowering new monetary limitations on the fights and flagging brutal new punishments against anybody included. For some Canadians, it's a past-due finish to a turbulent dissent that has smothered exchange and brought disturbing weaponry into in any case calm networks. Yet, conservative allies hav...

A complex network of Facebook groups gave Canada’s trucker protests (or "Freedom Convoy") an international profile, but it also distorted the actual events through the lens of right-wing outlets like Fox News and The Daily Wire.

The PSL opposes the Canadian far right convoy and the broader anti-vaccine movement that imperils the lives of working people. Despite being labeled the “trucker protest”, it does not represent the interests of workers in the trucking industry or otherwise

A powerful faction of Canada’s ruling elite, Donald Trump, many of his co-conspirators in the Jan. 6, 2020 coup attempt and Fox News have sought to cast a movement initiated and led by notorious right-wing extremists and outright fascists as a grassroots mobilization of truckers.

At the same time as the far Right Freedom Convoy was organizing and then carrying out its occupations across Canada, other mobilizations of rank-and-file truckers were also taking place which targeted specific companies and making and winning demands that directly benefited truckers. These trucker mobilizations were organized by South Asian truckers (predominantly Punjabi) and they pose compelling models for rank-and-file organizing, and community solidarity, and real working class answers to t...

Donates $50 to so-called Freedom Convoy, applauds opposition fo vaccine mandates

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act to respond to the “Freedom Convoy” protests — including by making it harder for them to receive monetary support..

Well, here we are, three weeks into Freedom Convoy 2022 and for anyone willing to take a little deeper dive into what’s happening behind the flag waving and…