| January 1st | Vol. 2 No. 12 (Whole number 24, Jan.) (Editorials) Canada coming apart at seams (Parti Québécois comes to power in Quebec); Canada in crisis; “Peace” deception (diverts support for Irish republican movement) |
| CLC censors Steel union on chemical struggle, by P. Kent |
| Column: Oh Canada, by Paul Kane (general and labor notes on issues of Canadian nationalism) |
| A view of Sask. Waffle manifesto, by R.D. |
| Ottawa hightails after Nato war drive, by P. Kent |
| Penny-pinching existence for aged; Over half live in abject poverty, by Paul Kane |
| February 15th | (#25, Feb.) Lack of strategy stalls anti-AIB fight (labor against Anti-Inflation Board) |
| (Editorials) Where are we going, & what is to be done? Quebec’s course firm, irreversible; (Canada’s) Rulers in disarray and confusion
What is to be done? For a constitutional assembly! The opportunity to reshape Canada |
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Putting it to (the) Québécois, by R.D. (Anglophone politicians and business confront Quebec)
(continuation) “…the government would not ‘absolutely, categorically, rule out force.’” |
| Column: Oh Canada, by Paul Kane (The Financial Post complains about restrictions against foreign ownership) |
| April 1st- |
(#26, April) Editorial: How to decide (Canadian) future; Patch up confederation or a new constitution? Discussion opening up on constituent assembly idea
Constituent assembly; PM seeks US backing (against Quebec independence struggle) |
| Jobless can leave country, living too high, flips Pierre, by Paul Kane |
| Column: Oh Canada, by Paul Kane (Washington disregards Trudeau’s efforts to stall Garrison water project; Macleans reveals Canadian bourgeois opposition to nationalism) |
| Column: On the Line: union notes |
| RCMP: our political thought control cops, by Ken Napier |
| May 1st | (#27, May) (Editorial) Vote NDP on June 9; Ont. labor to power |
| CLC head fiddles with bosses as unemployment issue burns, by P. Kent |
| Committee proposes constitutional assembly (Committee statement reprinted by editors)
Cttee for a New Constitution seeks popular assembly for a new Canada |
| (Editorial) Let the people decide! |
| Constitutional crisis puts Canada in question; Analyzing the roots of Canada’s evolution, by R.D.
(continuation) Federalism against self-determination
(continuation) Rise of working class organizations |
| Column: Oh Canada (Ottawa’s man in Washington lambastes Canadian nationalism; Saturday Night critiques Trudeau speech in Washington) |
| Column: On the Line: Starvation pensions, Schreyer betrayal, Index pensions!, Steel ranks resist, QFL actions modest, by Paul Kent |
| July 1st | (#28 printed as #27 in error, July) (unsigned editorial) Alcan gas pipeline: new Panama Canal |
| (Editorial) Ont. NDP & public ownership (Lewis leadership dumps public ownership of resource industries policy) |
| The social dynamics of the Quebec nationalist movement; Trudeau leads federalist attack against Parti Québécois, by R.D.; Pravda echoes Trudeau
(continuation) “The state forms are of a bourgeois democratic character."
(continuation) Photo: 1944 demonstration against conscription in Montreal |
| Steel (union) brass caught red-handed (attack movement for Canadian union autonomy) |
| Column: Cross country with the NDP, by R.D. (Sask. nuclear sales; BC, Alberta & Manitoba NDP notes)
Ontario NDP MLA) Ziemba’s jailing sets precedent and embarrasses government |
| Column: Oh Canada, by Paul Kane (notes on Canadian sovereignty issues) |
| British socialists explain (British) Labour Party orientation (similarity of political strategy with Canadian left to NDP —a review of a pamphlet)Forward Fund Drive close to $5000 goal |
| September 1 | (#29, Sept.) Labor to fight for jobless, by P. Kent |
| (Editorials) The balance sheet (BLP comes to grips with end of Pax Britannica); Winds of change (Euro-Communism signals growing split in Stalinist ranks from the Soviet Union) |
| A Constituent Assembly & a new Constitution; The way out of the Confederation crisis
(continuation) Unity Train under way
(continuation) While legal brains tangle, (Sask. NDP Premier) Blakeney plots a solution |
| Column: Oh Canada, by Paul Kane (Sask. Next Year Country sees Canadian nationalism as directed against Quebec; Canadian power issues) |
| What’s behind the fusion of the RMG/LSA? All the ingredients of an adventure (it’s unprincipled political basis), by R.D. |
| November 12th | (#30, Nov.-Dec.) The RCMP: myths and realities; Truth comes out on Canada’s post-card heroes, by R.D.
Cartoon: Sergeant Pressem of the Yukon
NDP leadership hems and haws after RCMP caught red-handed, by Wayne Roberts |
| (Editorial) Quebec’s hopes high as Canada’s stagnate |
| (Letters to the Editor) Letter from Walter Bruno and reply by R.D.: Socialist politics and gay liberation—an exchange of views |
| Column: On the Line: by P. Kent (BC Teamsters fight; Dailies struck over workers’ control) |
| Column: Oh Canada, by Paul Kane ("Foreign banks are literally invading Canada"; the battle against imperializing Canadian culture; the lack of a coherent Canadian science policy) |
