NL Anti-Fascist Strategic Planning & Action Committee

06/02/2026

Happy Pride Season from us to you all.
Borrowed from Anti-Hate Coalition NL and edited for this page:

Just a heads up from the admin team. We will not be sharing or posting content that reflect anti pride rhetoric, mis/disinformation during the entirety of Pride Season. This is our time. The bigots can stew in their hate by themselves. We will gladly and gratefully share, post and approve posts that celebrate pride, contain Canadian pride history, and Pride events across Newfoundland & Labrador.

Pride Season refers to the wide range of Pride events that take place from June to September, when 2SLGBTQI+ people and their allies come together to highlight the resilience, celebrate the talent, and recognize their communities’ contributions. Although special attention is put on the Pride events during the summer months, they happen throughout the year in many communities.

Historically, Pride gatherings emerged from the first large-scale protests for 2SLGBTQI+ rights. In Canada, the first demonstrations took place in Ottawa and Vancouver in 1971.

Love wins.
Solidarity heals.

06/02/2026

Workers have the right to strike under international law. We need to pay attention to what’s happening right now to workers’ rights in Quebec, and across Canada. Read First they came for the unions by Félix Cauchy-Charest from the latest edition of Our Schools / Our Selves.

Over the past two years Quebec has seen a deliberate dismantling of the right to strike, the most powerful tool workers have ever held

05/29/2026

On this day in 1921 – May 28 – revolutionaries founded the Communist Party of Canada in a barn in Guelph under conditions of illegality.

The CPC adopted a revolutionary program and constitution, launched the Party press, and immediately set about organizing workers.

For 105 years, our Party has been based on scientific socialism and working class internationalism!

If you would like to learn more about the history of the Communist Party of Canada you can check out this documentary that was made for the CPC's centenary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh-gH_7RRqI&t=5s

05/17/2026

Rest in Power ✊

Founder and leader of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist and its armed wing, the Workers' and Peasants' Liberation Army, İbrahim Kaypakkaya was executed May 18, 1973 in Diyarbakir Prison where he was tortured following his capture four months earlier.

Founder and leader of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist and its armed wing, the Workers' and Peasants' Liberation Army, İbrahim Kaypakkaya was executed May 18, 1973 in Diyarbakir Prison where he was tortured following his capture four months earlier.

05/17/2026

This ⬇️⬇️⬇️

05/17/2026

Today, on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, New Democrats stand proudly with 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in Canada and around the world.

Q***r and trans people are facing a frightening rise in hate and violence, fuelled by those who punch down on marginalized communities to divide and distract us. New Democrats will always speak out clearly and unapologetically against this hate.

Our party has stood alongside 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in every generation in the fight for dignity, safety, and equality. We were the first in Canada to call for the decriminalization of homosexuality, and the first federal party to support equal marriage rights.

Today, we honour the activists and community members who continue that work every single day. Everyone deserves to live safely, openly, and fully as themselves.

05/16/2026

On this day, 16 May 1920, workers at Knocklong creamery in County Limerick declared a soviet (workers' council) and established workers’ control of production.
They prepared for the takeover by arranging deals for milk with local farmers and contracts to sell their butter with retailers. They hoisted a red flag and an Irish tricolour and for five days they continued production under the slogan “We make butter not profits.”
The workers returned control to the owners in exchange for reduced hours, better pay, and the replacement of a hated manager.
The success of their revolt inspired similar actions by employees at other businesses owned by the Cleeves family, including in Bruree, where a soviet was declared in 1921.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8816/%E2%80%9CWe-make-butter-not-profits%E2%80%9D
Pictured: the creamery
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05/16/2026

05/16/2026

On this day, 15 May 1833, in London, a jury found the stabbing to death of a police officer "justifiable homicide", despite the coroner locking the jury in a room to get them to change their mind. The recently formed Metropolitan Police had violently attacked a demonstration of the National Union of the Working Classes, and in defending themselves the workers stabbed three policemen, killing one.
Police were widely hated by Londoners who largely saw them as a violent gang set up to protect the property of the rich and keep the working class in abject poverty. Officers were routinely mocked in the street, and given nicknames like 'Blue Devils', 'Raw Lobsters' and 'Peel's Bloody Gang' ('Raw Lobsters' basically meant 'blue soldiers', as soldiers were nicknamed 'lobsters' for their red coats, and Robert Peel founded the Met).
Met officers were frequently attacked by members of the public, with some early recruits being stabbed, blinded, and one was even held down while someone ran him over.
Learn more about the role of the police in capitalist society in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/police