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The world turned upside down – a system in crisis

We are living through a period of sharp turns and sudden changes in the world situation. The election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States and his policies have introduced enormous instability into world politics, the world economy and relations between the powers.

Ukraine war: European leaders prolong the carnage

For the European ‘powers’ the end of the conflict means a decisive step towards the US withdrawing from Europe.

Doug Ford’s Bill 5 uses trade war to gut environmental protections

Under the guise of fighting Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian capitalist class is ramping up its attacks on workers and the oppressed, laying bare the fiction of “Team Canada”.

US weakness exposed as US-China trade war paused

Trump is like the boy that cried wolf. His threats look increasingly unserious, especially after China showed that he can be made to back down.

Book recommendation: L’établi, by Robert Linhart

In L’établi, Robert Linhart recounts his experience as a worker on an assembly line in a large Citroën car factory in 1968-1969.

The fight to save Canada Post is a fight against capitalism

The problems of Canada Post are a problem of the capitalist system. Unless we develop a socialist solution and seize the private delivery companies, Canada Post must compete with them.

What is behind the rising tensions between the West and Israel?

After launching a new, intensified assault on Gaza, Israel is suddenly facing a string of denunciations from its closest allies, including Prime Minister, Mark Carney. 

DC embassy shooting: the US-Israeli imperialists are the real murderers

The deaths of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim are being used in the exact same way that the hostages have been: as an excuse for the Israeli ruling class to carry out their decades-old agenda of fully removing the Palestinians from the land that they have occupied for thousands of years.

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Boundless enthusiasm for RCP’s Second Congress!

The RCP cell at Vanier College was buzzing throughout the two months before Congress.

Recruitment at Congress!

This was my first congress of the RCP and my enthusiasm was palpable to him

For the first time ever, more than 3,600 workers at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board are on strike. These are not “paper-pushers.” They are the ones who face crushed limbs, shattered spines, broken workers left behind by Capitalism. And now, they’re being broken too. — Adam J., Toronto
Broken Backs, Broken System

For the first time ever, more than 3,600 workers at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board are on strike.

Healthcare system: the breakdown approaches

Soon it will be the entire healthcare system that breaks down, a mortal victim of chronic underfunding and capitalist austerity. The consequences will be calamitous. 

Empty cars and missing buses

Capitalism has funneled economic activity into dense urban hubs, yet it has failed to provide viable alternatives to the personal automobile

Revolution is coming to Canada

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The RCP’s 2025 Political Perspectives

The privileged position Canada once enjoyed on the world stage is under threat. This will have profound implications for politics, the economy, and the class struggle.

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

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