The privileged position Canada once enjoyed on the world stage is under threat, and this will have profound implications for politics, the economy, and the class struggle.

CUPW emerged from the largest illegal strike of government employees in Canadian history. They won collective bargaining rights for all federal public sector employees. 

The only way out of the crisis is a return to the traditions of May Day: class independence, militancy, and internationalism. 

Instability and crisis are on the horizon and we must be prepared to resist the coming attacks

Canada’s colleges and universities are dependent on the high tuition fees paid by international students. Now that this source of income is disappearing, they have begun cutting services and programs

When faced with a crumbling system, long wait times, labyrinthine bureaucracy, and burnt-out providers, it’s little wonder that workers will back any proposed alternative, with their health and lives on the line

“We had a chance to make labour history and we squandered it.”

The youth are angry at the system which has brought them nothing but misery and destitution. They are abandoning the status-quo Liberals in search of an answer to the doom looming over them. 

Class peace is dying. An epoch of class war is upon us. The labour movement needs to acknowledge this fact and draw all the conclusions that flow from it.

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