28 November marks the 200th birthday of Friedrich Engels. Rob Sewell commemorates this bicentenary by looking at the vital contribution that Engels made to developing the ideas of Marxism, for which we owe him an enormous debt of gratitude. Pre-orders of Wellred’s new edition of Engels’ The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State are […]

After the latest in sixteen rounds of negotiations between Blaisdale Montessori and CUPE Local 5257 failed yet again, the 100-plus employees, already struggling without “fair wages and a fair contract” since last year, decided to walk out of the workplace starting Nov. 16.  The delicate nature of caring for toddlers, with additional precautions due to […]

The number of COVID cases has exploded in Alberta as Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party (UCP) scaled back preventative measures in early summer in the name of getting back to “business as usual.” With 13,349 active cases, Alberta now has the highest total active cases of all the provinces and territories. Public health emergency and […]

In addition to being back on the front lines during the second wave of COVID-19, health-care professionals in Quebec are in negotiations to renew their collective agreement. Despite the terrible working conditions putting the health-care system on the edge of collapse, the government refuses to budge. Sooner or later, the question of a strike will […]

On Nov. 21, two members of Atalante, a fascist group in Quebec, tried to intimidate a member of La Riposte socialiste in Quebec City at his workplace. This is not the first time this group has gone after left-wing activists in the city. We have a clear message for them: we will not be intimidated. […]

For the fall semester of the school year, the Canadian section of the IMT organized a Marxist University. This series of events which ran from September to mid-November was a resounding success with over 1,000 people registering! There were registrations from people all over the country demonstrating that there is a growing thirst for Marxist […]

On Nov. 21, Fightback organizers made a solidarity visit to the 1492 Land Back Lane reclamation camp. The camp was set up by members of Six Nations of the Grand River to defend against incursions by Foxgate Developments onto stolen land. Six Nations community members have been protesting the project— which was pushed through without […]

The news that General Motors was reopening its Oshawa plant came as a shock to many. To get additional insight, we reached out to Rebecca Keetch, a former GM Oshawa worker and rank-and-file activist within Unifor. In this interview Rebecca details that the 1,700 jobs returning to GM Oshawa have lower pay and conditions than […]

The UCP’s curriculum recommendations for K-4 social studies and fine arts in Alberta have recently been leaked to the public. Minister of Education Adriana LaGrange says the aim of this new curriculum is to “remove political bias” from schools and offer students an “objective” understanding of Canadian history. LaGrange is right about one thing—students do […]

The capitalists are eagre for the COVID-19 crisis to come to an end, and many anticipate a rapid economic bounceback. But the new normal will be one of crisis, chaos and class struggle.