An international solidarity campaign has been launched to demand the release of comrade Rawal Asad, who was arrested in Multan for the ‘crime’ of attending a protest. He faces a scandalous charge of sedition, which carries a sentence of 10 years to life in prison, and a judge has now officially denied his application for bail. In […]

Retail workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) have been on strike for months in Saskatchewan and Ontario. On Oct. 2, approximately 200 employees at the Moose Jaw Co-op served strike notice over the issue of two-tiered contracts. On Nov. 1, fellow UFCW Local 1400 members at the Saskatoon Co-op followed […]

 Once again this year, the Montreal Marxist Winter School was a smashing success. We had a record 235 registrations, the largest number ever to attend! Participants came not just from Quebec and Ontario, but also from Western Canada, the United States, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Haiti and Algeria. 100 years after the death of Rosa Luxemburg, […]

Alex Grant speaking against the imperialist coup in Venezuela at the École marxiste d’hiver 2019 Marxist Winter School. Hands Off Venezuela!

The life and ideas of Rosa Luxemburg by comrade Jessica Cassell (Audio in French and English)

The International Marxist Tendency rejects the current attempt by US imperialism to carry out a coup in Venezuela. What we are witnessing is a blatant attempt to remove the Venezuelan government of president Maduro by a coalition of countries, led by Trump. This is the latest episode in a 20-year campaign against the Bolivarian Revolution, […]

We have decided to change the program for the upcoming Marxist Winter School in Montreal to hold a special session on the situation in Venezuela. Below are details about the session and other important details for the weekend. HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! On January 23, the president of the opposition-controlled Venezuelan National Assembly Juan Guaidó appointed […]

We publish here a translation of part two of a four-part article on the history of the Parti Québécois (PQ) written by Julien Arseneau, member of the editorial board of the Quebec Marxist journal and website, La Riposte socialiste. < Part one | Part three > 1976: ‘Separatists win in Quebec’ Thus was the headline […]

Last November, GM announced the closure of its plant in Oshawa and in four American cities. Production will be shifted to Mexico, where wages are lower and labour rights are almost non-existent. In response, Unifor, the union representing Oshawa GM workers, has called for a consumer boycott of Mexican-made vehicles to pressure the company into […]

On Jan. 7 the RCMP, including members of the Tactical and Emergency Response Teams, attacked and dismantled the Gidimt’en checkpoint on Wet’suwet’en territory in Northern British Columbia, arresting 14 people. The Gidim’ten checkpoint was set up in December 2018 after the B.C. Supreme Court granted TransCanada Coastal GasLink an injunction to remove another camp, the […]