In the early 1980s, one factory after another was occupied in Ontario’s auto sector in response to planned closures and attacks on benefits. The most notable of these was the 1980 occupation of the Houdaille bumper plant in Oshawa—an event now largely forgotten to labour history. 

Contrary to what the majority of Hollywood films show, it was not the United States, Britain or any other capitalist country that defeated Nazism, but the workers’ state of the Soviet Union.

The 1983 movement reached revolutionary proportions. The reasons why it ended hold lessons for today.

It is no accident that Marx and Engels stated in the Communist Manifesto that internationalism is one of the main things that distinguishes communists.

The existence of imperialist military blocs like NATO is further proof that the capitalist system is incapable of harmoniously developing the means of life.

We need to learn the lessons of 2012 if we want to build a student strike for Palestine today.

Stalin played a key role in getting the infamous 1947 UN resolution that partitioned Palestine adopted with the required two-thirds majority of the UN Assembly. Present-day supporters of Stalin prefer that we bury and forget these facts.

When we found the Revolutionary Communist Party in May this year, we won’t be starting from scratch. We are carrying on a long and rich tradition that traces its roots to the Communist Manifesto.

Experienced trade unionist John McInally introduces Wellred Books’ latest publication: a fascinating biography examining Lenin’s life and ideas by Rob Sewell and Alan Woods. With support for communism on the rise today, we say: Lenin lives!

One of the most common misconceptions about the Russian Revolution is that the ideas and methods of Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik Party led inevitably to the Stalinist regime and all the crimes that went with it.