As nations compete for medical equipment, is ‘self-sufficiency’ a solution?

Canada entered this week facing a horrifying stage in the COVID-19 pandemic.  Until recently, efforts focused on “flattening the curve,” whereby health authorities insisted on “social distancing” and mass testing to relieve the strain on hospitals. These efforts have largely fallen short. While B.C. and Alberta seem to have had some success in limiting COVID-19’s […]

How we win the rent strike: Program for the renters’ movement

The rent strike movement is taking hold across the country. How can it win?

A Revolutionary Appeal to Bernie Supporters: Don’t Mourn, Organize!

Bernie Sanders is out of the race. This is a punch to the gut for millions of people who hoped his campaign would offer a way forward—a way to fight against the billionaires who rule the US. But it’s also a turning point. For millions, this will be the last straw. This will be the […]

Sanitising war crimes: Palestine, Israel and COVID–19

The coronavirus has led to shutdowns, movement restrictions, and shortages of medical supplies and food around the world. However, for one place in the world, this was the norm before the pandemic.The Gaza Strip, already under heavy restrictions and shortages since the beginning of the blockade 13 years ago, now must also contend with the […]

Workers Fight Back in the Class War Against COVID-19

Right from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the main concern of the capitalist class was to keep their money machine going. Capitalists accumulate their riches—rent, interest and profit—from the exploitation of the working class. Real wealth is created by human labor turning the natural resources of the world into goods and services, which are […]

#NameAndShame the bosses killing for profit in Canada

To ensure their profits, businesses across Canada have been finding loopholes in the already patchy government restrictions to force people to work in dangerous conditions. This prompted us at Labour Fightback to launch a “Name and Shame” campaign to expose those bosses putting profits ahead of workers’ lives.

On the frontlines of coronavirus: The struggle of essential workers

Essential workers are being put at unnecessary risk due to years of cuts and can get fired if they refuse to work in such conditions.

Why socialists should oppose Trudeau’s 75% “wage subsidy”

Trudeau’s latest measures have been celebrated by those on both ends of the political spectrum. The “left,” including the federal NDP, celebrates state subsidies as a victory for workers, using it as proof that Trudeau has “listened to the call” for more income support. The right celebrates them as a necessary measure to return things to normal. Both are wrong.

UCP pinching public pennies amid COVID-19 crisis

Alberta school boards are being advised to immediately draw up notices for an estimated 26,000 “non-essential staff and educational assistants” with the expectation that they will not continue work after April. This amounts to approximately one per cent of the province’s workforce, and is the largest layoff by a single organization in Canadian history.

Canada and Coronavirus: A Marxist Analysis

If capitalism could be said to have a motto, “profits before people” would be it. The banks, the corporations, and profits are sacrosanct, and people are expendable. This has been clear from the response of the Canadian and provincial governments to the COVID-19 crisis over the past two weeks. While big business are given handouts, […]