Carney’s military spending is a gift to the U.S.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.
Carney’s austerity begins. His first target: Canada PostThe cuts to Canada Post are a harbinger of things to come under Carney.
We are poor because they are richIn Canada, inequality has reached a historic high. The richest 20 per cent now own 64.7 per cent of all the wealth, while the bottom 40 per cent own only 3.3 per cent.
Thousands of empty condos amid a housing crisisNo one could ask for better proof that the market has utterly failed to provide the housing people need.
US weakness exposed as US-China trade war pausedTrump is like the boy that cried wolf. His threats look increasingly unserious, especially after China showed that he can be made to back down.
The Communist Program to combat the crisisThe Revolutionary Communist Party rejects all attempts to pass the burden of this crisis onto the backs of working class people.
Trump’s tariffs mark a new turbulent eraThe unraveling of 80 years of trade integration is going to have massive implications for the world economy. All the benefits of world trade are under threat: greater productivity, cheaper products, etc.
Trump’s tariff program deepens protectionist tendencies in world economyBourgeois economists declared ‘never again’ on protectionism. But like so many economic ‘never agains’, it has given way to real international and class antagonisms.
The communist position on the trade warThis is not our war
We need a working class response to Trump’s tariffsTrump’s tariffs are an existential crisis for the labour movement. We need class struggle methods to defend jobs.
