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Setting the record straight on the Second World War: editorial For In Defence of Marxism Issue 49

Issue 49 of In Defence of Marxism magazine, which cuts through the bourgeois propaganda surrounding World War Two, is out now!

The revolutionary roots of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers

CUPW emerged from the largest illegal strike of government employees in Canadian history. They won collective bargaining rights for all federal public sector employees. 

India and Pakistan enter another war: only class war can end all wars

To end these wars, the working class of both countries will have to wage a struggle against their own ruling class and overthrow the capitalist system, which is at the root of all bloodshed and terrorism.

Federal government predicts doom

A new paper by Policy Horizons warns of a near-future where ordinary people lose all “hope in the Canadian project.”

Trump’s Terror Campaign against Non-Citizens

As Trump’s prospects for delivering a better economy look increasingly bleak, he is trying to scapegoat immigrants as the real threat to the “American Dream.”

May Day 2025: ‘The pitchforks will come out for capitalism’

In country after country, the RCI signed up hundreds of new prospective members on 1 May.

Only nationalizations can stop the impending catastrophe

The communist solution is simple: Any manufacturer, like Stellantis or General Motors, who decides to shut down, should immediately be nationalized. 

Revolutionary crisis in Serbia

The task of achieving the students’ demands, of establishing a more just system in Serbia, and of overthrowing Vučić belongs to the working class of Serbia and no one else

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Revolutionary optimism

We work actively to build the Revolutionary Communist Party, to find other communists like us who want to put an end once and for all to this system that’s dragging us down

Politics in the workplace

All of us pretty quickly agreed that the counter-tariffs that the Canadian government were talking about would do nothing to help out workers here in Canada

Our main message centered on the election: no parties represent workers, and we must rely on our own strength to struggle on the streets. This struck a chord, and we distributed hundreds of dollars of literature and met workers who wanted to join our Party. — Enrique M, Vancouver
The Quebec animation industry: One of the first victims of austerity

The animation industry relies heavily on subsidies from various governments, a veritable race to the bottom to see who can dish out the most cash to attract studios to hire in their regions.

Communists tap into a revolutionary tradition at Vaisakhi

‘Everyone in my village is a communist’

Dentist vs. dental hygienist: An election anecdote

At my next cleaning appointment in September, I’ll be bringing copies of Communist Revolution and asking my hygienist if she wants to get organized

Revolution is coming to Canada

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The meaning of Donald Trump: A Marxist analysis

Trump’s efforts to put the clock back to the world as it was in those far-off days are doomed to fail, shipwrecked by the changed world situation and the balance of class forces within the USA

The communist position on the trade war

This is not our war

Manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist Party

We are the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), the section of the Revolutionary Communist International in Canada. Our demands are modest: the complete overthrow of capitalism—the construction of a society free of exploitation and oppression. 

Manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist International

The following manifesto is of utmost importance to the world communist movement. We call on all our readers to study it thoroughly and give it the widest possible circulation. It was approved unanimously by the International Secretariat of the IMT and will constitute the founding document of a new Revolutionary Communist International, which will be launched in June of this year.

“Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full.”
Leon Trotsky