Election results no excuse for national chauvinism
As the votes were being counted on October 21, it quickly became clear that the NDP was not going to see its much anticipated (and expected) breakthrough in Toronto. For the last two weeks of the...
View ArticleOrganizing against precarity: Foodora couriers deliver bold vision for labour
Precarious work has always been a feature of capitalism. In 16th century England, the process of enclosure forced small farmers to migrate to urban areas in search of work as wage-labourers. The 18th...
View ArticleThere’s no self-isolation for (or from) the climate crisis
Fridays for Future moving online to fight for action, build movement Social distancing is a reality for most people right now, but that doesn’t mean that collective action stops. Whether it’s tenants...
View ArticleA labour of love from a lover of labour
A Worker’s Friend Peter Marcus 2019 Granville Island Publishing “Poetry is a reflection of the society in which we live and its past and its political future,” writes Peter Marcus in the introduction...
View ArticleWorkers won’t recover without class struggle
Labour Congress initiative too timid, lacks coherent action plan A few months ago, trade unionists in Canada would have expected to be emerging from a Canadian Labour Congress convention right now,...
View ArticleClarity Act at 20: a frontal attack on national rights
An interview with Adrien Welsh of the Parti communiste du Québec Canada is a multinational capitalist state and national oppression and inequality are a big part of how that state developed. In...
View ArticleLeft anti-communism: a Trojan Horse that weakens the working class
“The pure socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack...
View ArticleWhy labour should demand Meng Wanzhou’s release
On December 1, peace and solidarity activists across the country are organizing the December 1 Cross-Canada Day of Action to Free Meng Wanzhou. Actions are planned in several cities, marking the second...
View ArticleCPC centenary: Communists in the parliamentary arena, an indispensable...
“We Bolsheviks participated in the most counterrevolutionary parliaments, and experience has shown that this participation was not only useful but indispensable to the party of the revolutionary...
View ArticleLaurentian bankruptcy: neoliberal policies get the failing grade
The February 1 announcement that Sudbury, Ontario’s Laurentian University had gone bankrupt made front page headlines and sent shock waves across the country. There’s good reason for this –...
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