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.

When Donald Trump stood for election as President of the United States, he presented himself as the peace candidate. But let us examine the issue a little more closely.

While Trump has bombastically hailed this as the start of a “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace”, his plan will inevitably prepare new conflicts, new wars, new genocides, and new suffering for the Palestinian people.

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.

The Italian general strike on 3 October, and more generally the whole Red September of 2025, are a source of tremendous inspiration. It is our duty to draw all the necessary lessons and generalise them.

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.”  […]

Italian dockers are showing the way forward.

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.