Johan Boyden is a an activist in Toronto, working for Peoples Voice Newspaper. He is also member of the Rebel Youth Magazine collective. Johan's articles have appeared in progressive publications in Britain, the US and Australia. 
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Subscribe To My ArticlesEven a casual survey of Canada from the increasing willingness of police to use armed force, to broad cultural symbols, to the security arrangements for the BC Olympics, and even Canada’s foreign policy, shows a fetish of violence, a quasi-militarization of society
It would be just as mistaken to deny weaknesses within the student movement as to claim this is the central problem. Student
activists have a choice: slide towards advocacy, or fuel up a militant Canada-wide campaign, with allies like labour, people’s forces, and parents – for ultimately our demand is raising living standards of the people as a whole
Johan Boyden reports
Johan Boyden talks to student activist Tanya Portillo, who was an election observer in the recent runoff in El Salvador, about right-wing attempts at election fraud and the elation of the El Salvadoran people that after 20 years of reactionary governments they now have hope
Anti-war politician George Galloway was banned from Canada last week because the Conservative government said he supported Hamas. But they have no problem with letting in supporters of Israel who have inflicted many more terrorist murders. Canadians are up in arms at their government’s disregard for basic principles of free speech and they must vent their anger
Israel Apartheid Week in Toronto has welcomed veteran South African anti-apartheid activist and now politician, Ronnie Kasrils, in a climate of interference from university administrators and pro-Israel organizations.
Canadians are broadly happy at the election of Barack Obama, and hope his influence will rub off on conservative Canadian PM Stephen Harper, who previously had a close relationship with George W. Bush.
Johan Boyden evaluates the response from the Canadian activist groups and the political parties there.
