With the pandemic appearing to wane, bosses across Canada are eager to recover their profits by gutting pensions, cutting wages and undermining job security. Inflation is also taking a big bite out of take-home pay. Across sectors and across the country, more and more workers are being forced out onto picket lines to defend their […]

The USA has been hit by a ‘Striketober’ of industrial action across a range of sectors: from healthcare to construction; carpentry to coal mining; media to communications; snack foods and cereal manufacturing. In all, 100,000 workers voted to authorise strike action this month. The old union bureaucrats have undermined some of these struggles, but they […]

Throughout the summer of 1990, a group of Mohawk activists formed blockades in protest of a golf course expansion which encroached on traditional lands around the town of Oka, Quebec. This led to a standoff with Quebec police and the Canadian military which lasted 78 days. This conflict, known as the Oka crisis, laid bare […]

In the past months, the world economy has been creeping towards a state of disarray. Shops have been running out of goods, gas stations have been running out of gas, energy prices have shot up and major western harbours have become completely clogged up with swarms of ships queuing up, sometimes having to wait weeks […]

Albertans will return to the polls on Monday, Oct. 18 to vote on a number of things, including  municipal elections, plebiscites in some cities, Senate elections and two referendum questions—one on daylight savings time, and the other, of course, on the Canadian federal government’s equalization payment program.  While the most divisive issue may in fact […]

The Ontario government has announced plans to allow the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to return surplus funds to employers. A government agency that operates at “arm’s length” from the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development, the WSIB provides compensation for workers injured or killed on the job. Plundering its coffers to give […]

Squid Game is the latest production from South Korea that brilliantly exposes the brutal reality of capitalism – that of extreme competition. As the series tops the Netflix charts worldwide, Korean workers are preparing for a general strike.

Toronto journalist and activist Desmond Cole is currently under fire for saying that we must not just fight anti-Black racism, but also fight anti-Palestinian racism, at an anti-racism seminar held by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Cole also faced significant heat for uttering the words, “Free Palestine”. The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) […]

After having an expired contract for three years and a grueling year at the bargaining table, 97 per cent of Superstore workers voted in late September to take strike action if necessary. This comes at a time when Superstore is making record profits nearly two years into the pandemic. The company has repeatedly stalled negotiations […]

On Sept. 1 Brian Pallister, Progressive Conservative (PC) premier of Manitoba, stepped down in favour of deputy premier Kelvin Goertzen. Pallister’s time in office was characterized most notably by his incomptetent handling of the pandemic. During the  announcement of his resignation, Pallister described his government as one that was run with “real integrity and scandal-free”. […]