Twenty years ago today witnessed one of the most significant demonstrations of the “anti-globalization” movement of 1999-2001. This anti-capitalist movement burst asunder the corporate dominance of politics in the 1990s. In Quebec, the imperialist powers walled themselves off in an armed camp and fired round after round of teargas against the assembled protesters, who successfully […]

Normally, the monarchy is the least of the concerns of working class Canadians and Quebecers. But occasionally, a new scandal reminds us that this archaic, useless and anti-democratic institution continues to be at the heart of the Canadian political system. It goes without saying that Marxists are the strongest advocates of the abolition of the monarchy and the Senate. But how can this be done?

After numerous statues of John. A MacDonald, Queen Victoria and others have been defaced and torn down, the conservative press has launched a vicious campaign to bring down monuments and statues of Canadian doctor and communist Norman Bethune. Here we examine the hypocrisy and lies of the Canadian rightwing, and the real history of Norman Bethune and what he stood for.

There are more people than ever who want to overthrow capitalism through revolution. But how can the working class achieve this? How can we organize a socialist revolution?

Today, 150 years since the birth of the Paris Commune, millions of workers are rising up against the injustice and inhumanity of the capitalist system. In such a period of momentous class struggle it is vital that the working class should know and understand its own history.

Pandemics are not historical accidents and the ones that began in 1918 and 2020 are no exceptions. The influenza virus of 1918 was not created by humans, but by an imperialist war, poor living conditions for the working class across the globe, and a lack of will to fight the pandemic, which greatly amplified both the spread and lethality of the virus. These three factors were all products of the system the pandemic occurred within, that of capitalism. And while capitalism did not create the virus, it can be said to have created the epidemic, both in 1918 and in 2020.

For Marxists, it is important not to merely glorify or condemn the FLQ, but to soberly study its errors and weaknesses. More than ever today, we need a revolution, and the history of the FLQ and its lessons can help us to understand the way forward in this struggle.

In February 1919, a general strike paralyzed Seattle for six days. The tumultuous epoch that the United States is now entering demands that we study our class’s revolutionary traditions and draw the necessary lessons.

A century-old monument to Canadian racism and colonialism has fallen. As part of the defund the police protest on Aug. 29 in Montreal, protesters did what needed to be done and toppled the towering statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of racist Canada. This move is part of a larger worldwide movement to bring down statues of notorious racists.

After 350 years the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) is in dire straits. What we are witnessing is the inglorious decline of the first international trading company in the history of North America, which is responsible for hundreds of years of brutal exploitation. It is time we recall the true legacy of the Hudson’s Bay Company.  […]