We are living through a period of sharp turns and sudden changes in the world situation. The election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States and his policies have introduced enormous instability into world politics, the world economy and relations between the powers.

For the European ‘powers’ the end of the conflict means a decisive step towards the US withdrawing from Europe.

Under the guise of fighting Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian capitalist class is ramping up its attacks on workers and the oppressed, laying bare the fiction of “Team Canada”.

Trump is like the boy that cried wolf. His threats look increasingly unserious, especially after China showed that he can be made to back down.

In L’établi, Robert Linhart recounts his experience as a worker on an assembly line in a large Citroën car factory in 1968-1969.

The problems of Canada Post are a problem of the capitalist system. Unless we develop a socialist solution and seize the private delivery companies, Canada Post must compete with them.

After launching a new, intensified assault on Gaza, Israel is suddenly facing a string of denunciations from its closest allies, including Prime Minister, Mark Carney. 

The deaths of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim are being used in the exact same way that the hostages have been: as an excuse for the Israeli ruling class to carry out their decades-old agenda of fully removing the Palestinians from the land that they have occupied for thousands of years.

There’s nothing like turning to the British Crown to assert Canada’s sovereignty!

The privileged position Canada once enjoyed on the world stage is under threat, and this will have profound implications for politics, the economy, and the class struggle.