What is needed for victory today is no different than what was needed after February 1917—a party like the Bolshevik Party.

Is it possible to repeat the events of Quebec 2012 in English Canada?

This was one of the most advanced attempts of the working class in the history of Stalinist countries at fighting for a healthy, democratic workers’ state, as opposed to the caricature of socialism created by the Stalinists.

On July 3, 1979, Saint John’s dockworkers, backed by unions around the country, carried out an illegal strike that halted the transport of nuclear materials to the then military regime in Argentina.

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.