Latest Stories

• 

  Call for pitches: 2025 Labour Issue

  by Meera Eragoda – 2 min read

  Every year, for our November/December issue, Briarpatch publishes an issue devoted to reporting stories about the labour movement. This year, we’re looking for articles, investigative reporting, historical analysis, photo essays, timelines, personal essays, reviews, profiles, recommendations, lists, humour, comics, and art for the issue.

• 

  Going to the root: harm reduction to combat racism and imperialism

  by Anmol Swaich and Tyson Singh Kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ – 11 min read

  Addressing toxic drug supply through harm reduction principles is necessary to challenge racism, exploitation, and imperial power

• 

  Cops don’t protect women. Food, housing, and money do.

  by F.T. Green – 4 min read

  Rates of intimate partner violence are exacerbated by a lack of material needs

• 

  Canada’s little-known anti-socialist internment camps

  by Owen Schalk – 10 min read

  While Canada committed itself to anti-fascism on the world stage in the 1940s, its government was showing its contradictions internally