COVID-19 has caused immense economic hardship for workers, but for Canada’s richest it has brought huge profits. Data from Forbes’ annual billionaire list and real-time billionaires reports have revealed that the richest 20 billionaires in Canada have raked in a collective $37 billion dollars since March 2020. All this while the working class experiences record […]

On Sunday 13 September, a peaceful anti-racist rally held in Red Deer found itself violently interrupted by a group of right-wingers. Counter-protesters chanting slogans like “all lives matter”, and demanding a ban on face masks, arrived on the scene to rough up demonstrators. As the far right swung punches and pushed people around, the police […]

On Sep. 30, a group calling itself “All Out September 30th” held a “virtual strike” to raise awareness over issues of racism and barriers to education, among other topics.  The event, attended by Fightback and perhaps a few hundred students, could have been an opportunity for open discussion between faculty, students and their representatives on […]

A month into the school year in Alberta, cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 160 schools, 50 of which are considered outbreaks. The second wave of COVID-19 is in full swing, as the province now has its highest seven-day average rate of new COVID-19 cases since May 5. Despite the numbers, the government is […]

The second wave is here. While the first wave was a shock to many, no one should be surprised by the resurgence of COVID-19. The fact of the matter is that business leaders and their politicians in government have rushed to reopen the economy knowing full well that this would endanger lives. As cases have […]

In March of this year, three Louisville police officers broke into Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend’s home after midnight. The cops fired 32 shots in the apartment, killing Taylor in a barrage of bullets. In its recent ruling, the capitalist courts did not indict a single officer for this extrajudicial murder. The announcement was met […]

Having entered negotiations with 96.4 percent of Ford Motor Company workers voting for strike action if necessary, there was clearly an overwhelming willingness among the workers to fight to secure their future. They will now decide whether or not the tentative agreement negotiated by Unifor leadership achieves that goal.

Should socialists accept the reforms and support propping up the Liberals, or take the unpopular option of an election in the middle of a pandemic?

Winter is coming: the first in Canada since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. For workers in the hard-hit food service sector, the approach of colder weather threatens to have a particularly chilling effect.

Even before COVID-19, Canada was experiencing a rapidly expanding housing bubble. As a matter of fact, it’s the biggest housing bubble of any G7 country, even bigger than the housing bubble that instigated the crash of 2008. While the bubble has been inflating out of control for years, the only question is: why hasn’t it […]