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With the government in crisis and the threat of Trump imminent, things are barrelling towards disaster.

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

Let’s call a spade a spade. What we have here is the dictatorship of capital. 

One issue underpins the entirety of the ongoing postal workers’ strike: Canada Post management is in a race to the bottom with private corporations. 

It is imperative to extend the movement.

At this year’s NATO conference, Canada was pushed to commit more to the imperialist arms race. 

But the money to pay for these new weapons will not fall from the sky. It will mean cuts to schools, healthcare and other services that workers depend on.

Bill C-58, a law introduced by the federal government that purports to ban the use of “replacement workers” (i.e. scabs) in labour disputes, passed its first reading in the House of Commons on Nov. 9. In truth, the legislation is a cynical political manoeuvre by Liberals who are sinking in the polls.

Bill C-18, The Online News Act, has the Canadian government locked in a battle with tech giants Google and Meta. 

Canada is on the verge of the largest strike of federal government employees in a generation, potentially starting this Wednesday. With such a development on the horizon, the labour movement needs to be on full alert and prepare to come out in active solidarity with their fellow workers!