Issue 15 of Linchpin, the newspaper of Common Cause, is now available online.

Inside you will find articles on CUPE's upcoming strikes and lockouts affecting the City and University of Toronto, the struggle against Caterpillar being waged by locked out workers at Electro-Motive in London, reports from Occupy Toronto and Occupy Hamilton, interviews with participants in the Egyptian Revolution and more!

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Common Cause wishes to extend our solidarity to the six defendants of the so-called “G20 Main Conspiracy Group” who made the difficult decision to plead guilty to trumped up counseling charges in an effort to see the charges of eleven of their co-defendants dropped, and in order to help bring their shared year and a half-long judicial farce to a close. These eleven community organizers now join the ranks of the dozens of individuals who have already seen their bogus G20 conspiracy charges dropped. They will once again be able to associate with one another, and will once again be granted the right to plan and attend public demonstrations. This is a welcome and long over-due occasion for celebration – though their exoneration has come at a heavy price.

On the weekend 19-20th a new wave of mass protest all over Egypt broke out because of the systematic violence of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) against the Egyptian masses. People are tired of its dictatorial behaviour, the use of extreme force against protesters, the military trials that in 10 months have ended up with 12,000 comrades rotting in jail, their censorship, the torture, kidnappings and selective murder of activists. People are tired of the military council hijacking the banners of our revolution to continue the same old dictatorship through other means. People are tired of the sectarianism they promote to divert us from our real fight for justice, equality and freedom.

Issue 14 of Linchpin, the newspaper of Common Cause, is now online and available for downloading and printing.

This Austerity themed issue features an interview with UK Uncut, articles on the current attack on the right to strike, building Solidarity Networks, a critical assessment of the "Days of Action", and much more!

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Solidarity with the Seattle Anarchists! One member of Seattle Solidarity Network & our sister organization the WSA has been arrested after police crashed an anarchist party arresting 7 people.

On July 24th at about 10:45, between 30 and 40 anarchists gathered outside the downtown jail for a noise demonstration in solidarity with the six still in jail from last night's arrests. (One of the seven arrested has been released.)

The noise demonstration proceeded around the jail for about 15 minutes, banging pots and pans, banging on road signs and walls with sticks, throwing fireworks, writing anti-cop slogans on walls, and blockading the streets around the jail.

At this point, cop cars came from all directions, including undercover cars and canine units. The demonstration attempted to disperse, but many people were chased down. At least fifteen people were arrested, and five more were detained and released.

Hundreds march in Ottawa to oppose the Conservative Party national convention and Prime Minister Harper's keynote speech, his first major address since gaining a majority government.

The call to rally was to "make clear to the Conservative Party that we will not sit idly by while they attack our communities."

Speakers:
00:15 - Dan Sawyer, Take The Capital
01:25 - Brigette DePape, the 'rogue page' - more: http://youtu.be/kpAaFode3yY
03:13 - Lynn Bue, Canadian Union of Postal Workers - more: http://youtu.be/LDiRN2qYGKk
06:26 - Mohan Mishra, No One Is Illegal Toronto
09:32 - Mostafah Henaway, TADAMON!
12:36 - Bridget Tolley, Families of Sisters In Spirit
21:19 - Ben Powless, Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement - more: http://youtu.be/tlqud05PPIc & (written) http://bit.ly/l9vmJF

Issue 13 of Linchpin, the newspaper of Common Cause, is now available online.

In it you will find articles on OCAP's campaign to fight the recent cuts to the OW/ODSP Special Diet Allowance, the deportation of Daniel Garcia, Anti-police brutality marches in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa, and much more!

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Issue 12 of Linchpin, the newspaper of Common Cause, is now online and available for downloading and printing.

In it you can read articles on anti-austerity strikes in Europe, pro-choice community activism in Ottawa, the new Certain Days prison solidarity calendar and much more!

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Issue 11 of Linchpin, the newspaper of Common Cause, is now online and available for downloading.

This is a special edition of the paper produced in the lead up to the G20 Summit protests in Toronto.

In it, you will find articles on rebuilding the working class towards a general strike, conceptualizing a decentralized alternative energy grid, the G20 police state and an interview with First Nations solidarity activist Tom Keefer.

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