The following is the second of a speech given to the International Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Communist International

Intimate partner violence has been declared an epidemic in Nova Scotia. But the government’s only response has been to boost police funding. This will not solve the crisis.

Canada’s colleges and universities are dependent on the high tuition fees paid by international students. Now that this source of income is disappearing, they have begun cutting services and programs

Since Trump entered power, the whole of the world situation has been transformed.

Bourgeois politicians like Smith will not hesitate to use even the lives of children as political footballs to distract from the crisis of their system.

Trump’s proposal is nothing short of another Nakba: the forced expulsion of two million Palestinians from their land.

Democracy under capitalism is capitalist rule. And it’s the most stable form of capitalist rule: by allowing for elections and the peaceful transfer of power between parties, the masses can express their political dissatisfaction, while real power stays in the hands of capital.

Trump’s tariffs are an existential crisis for the labour movement. We need class struggle methods to defend jobs. 

Trump, with his populist indictment of liberalism and its organized system of hypocrisy, is jeopardizing the illusions that capitalist rule depends on. He is exposing the dictatorship of Capital under which we really live.

British Columbia in 1983 was brought to the verge of a general strike. The workers were fighting back against the draconian attacks of premier Bill Bennett who was doing the dirty work for the capitalists.