The 2023 Quebec public sector negotiations are drawing to a close, and the outcome is bitter.

“We need to shut down this campus and bring down York’s union-busting, anti-Palestinian bosses. They, like the capitalist classes as a whole, have no right to rule.”

Mulroney’s tenure met the crisis of the capitalist system with austerity and attacks on the working class—at home and abroad. His “legacy” is deepening poverty and oppression. And he will not be missed.

An investigation by The Maple found that Canada authorised at least $28.5 million in new permits for military hardware to Israel from October to November 2023—as Israel began its latest siege on Gaza. 

Last week, Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) announced it was cutting 4,800 jobs, ending a host of television newscasts across the country, and planning to sell off 45 radio stations. This continues the telecommunication company’s trend of cuts and closures. 

Once again, bourgeois politicians and media are raising a hue-and-cry over pro-Palestine protests. This time, it’s over a protest that supposedly took place outside of Toronto’s Mount Sinai hospital.There’s only one problem—the story is made up.

Since Dec. 10, Hudson’s Bay employees in Kamloops, British Columbia, represented by United Steelworkers Local 1-417, have been on strike in response to the company’s insulting $0.17 wage increase offer. 

Between Jan. 22-24, 180 transit workers from the Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) launched a 48-hour job action. CUPE 4500 representing Transit supervisors, indicated that if a deal cannot be reached by Friday Feb. 2, it will begin a 72-hour expanded strike. 

On Jan. 11, the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation (STF) voted in favour of strike action to demand an increase in wages and student funding. This was quickly followed by single day strikes on Jan. 16 and on Jan. 22, and rotating strikes beginning on Feb 1. Saskatchewan’s labour movement must mobilize in support of the STF! 

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has issued an injunction against striking workers at the Fresh Del Monte distribution centre in Oshawa. 

The labour movement must unite behind the workers on the picket lines to fight this attack.