In October, dozens of communists gathered in Halifax, Quebec City, and Vancouver for a weekend of presentations and discussion aimed at deepening their understanding of Marxist theory.

What are the real reasons behind changing attitudes on immigration? And how should Marxists engage with those presenting concerns about this question?

The stakes are as high as they’ve ever been, for teachers and the entire labour movement. The only force that can stop Danielle Smith is the working class.

This is not just poetry — it is the reality of millions under capitalism: men and women who produce the wealth of society, but whose lives are treated as disposable.

All working Canadians will be made to pay through austerity. Meanwhile, foreign arms companies, along with Canadian billionaires like New Brunswick’s infamous Irving family—whose company is producing one of the destroyers—will cash the cheques.

Lenin said that there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. The past few weeks certainly fall into the latter category.

A historic teachers’ strike has begun in Alberta. With 51,000 teachers on strike, this is the largest teachers’ strike in the history of the province, and the first since 2002.

Mass demonstrations have exploded across Europe to block everything for Gaza.  This call came first from the dockworkers of Italy, in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The dockworkers said, “if they touch the flotilla, we will block everything, not even a single shipment will pass through.”  […]

The federal cap on international students threatens to push the post-secondary system over the edge.

If the teachers succeed in winning, this can set the tone for all future struggles.