“May you live in interesting times”: this saying, supposedly taken from an ancient Chinese curse, sums up our epoch. Anyone who imagined they could live a simple, quiet life is in for a disappointment.

The catastrophe of climate change is upon us. It is a potentially existential crisis, if not for our species as a whole, certainly for human civilization and life on Earth as we know it. The facts are as sobering as they are undeniable.

With Ottawa backing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, however, millions of working class Canadians can now see with their own eyes the blood-spattered face of Canadian imperialism beneath the democratic mask.

The psychology of the petty bourgeoisie under fascism, its individualist mindset and narrowness of vision, finds powerful expression in Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest.

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor is seeking an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and his minister of defense Yoav Gallant for war crimes. This only confirms what everyone has known for a long time. But they represent only the tip of the iceberg of an entirely criminal system.

We are the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), the section of the Revolutionary Communist International in Canada. Our demands are modest: the complete overthrow of capitalism—the construction of a society free of exploitation and oppression. 

The Palestine solidarity encampments were sparked off in the United States. But by now, the movement down south has mostly died out. Here, we republish a report on the lessons of the movement by our sister party the Revolutionary Communists of America. RCA comrades took an active part in the movement from the beginning. Their experience provides indispensable insight for everyone fighting for a free Palestine here at home. 

In Canada, the encampment movement has not seen nearly as big of a decline. However, momentum is beginning to slow down. The biggest encampments are decreasing in size, and the violent state repression at the University of Alberta and University of Calgary is a grim warning for other campuses. If the encampments are to succeed, they must work to spread the movement to the rest of the working class. Only in that way can we launch the Canadian Intifada.

For the first time since the Great Depression, labour productivity is falling in Canada. The Bank of Canada has called this “an emergency” and various bourgeois commentators are scrambling for an explanation. However, all of these analysts blame secondary factors and miss the elephant in the room: the system itself. 

There’s a fifth column within the Indigenous movement. A layer of capitalist natives in alliance with the state are co-opting the struggle to divert it along a harmless path. 

It is clear that marches, petitions, and letter writing campaigns are not enough. The state has not listened to moral appeals. It needs to be confronted in the language of force.