An unprecedented heat wave has struck western North America. Thousands have died and infrastructure has buckled under the record temperatures set in all regions. The extreme heat has also led to an ecological disaster with upwards of 1 billion maritime animals perishing. But this did not have to happen. The blind profiteering of the capitalist […]

Justin Trudeau has named Mary Simon, an Indigenous woman, as Canada’s next governor general. Simon will be the first Indigenous person to hold that post, and it is blatantly obvious why she has been appointed at this moment. Anger has boiled over upon the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools, leading to torn […]

The situation in Cuba is serious. On Sunday 11 July, there were protests in various towns and cities in Cuba that have enjoyed widespread coverage in the international media (how could it be otherwise?) Where do these protests come from? What is their character? How should we, as revolutionaries, respond? The protests began in San […]

Afghanistan is hurtling towards yet another civil war as US and allied forces withdraw after two decades of bloody occupation. The withdrawal of imperialist troops, announced by Joe Biden, is set to be completed by 31 August this year, although most US forces have already left or are in the process of hurriedly abandoning the […]

Core Development Group, a Toronto-based real estate company, announced in June that it plans to buy $1 billion in single-family homes over the next five years and turn them into rentals. This move, while touted as a way to increase rental stock, is likely to add even more fuel to the long-standing housing affordability crisis […]

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated early this morning at his home by unidentified gunmen. At the time of writing, it is not clear who carried out this attack or to what end. With the country descending daily into a deeper and deeper crisis, there is now the possibility of an intense struggle for power […]

Recently Foxgate Developments, the company that planned to build a housing subdivision called Mackenzie Meadows on Six Nations land, has backed down from their initial plans. The decision came a year after land defenders with Six Nations took back the unceded Haudonesonee territory and set up a permanent camp. Fightback interviewed Skyler Williams, one of […]

Fightback’s second Marxist Summer School was a great success. Around 220 people registered, which is nearly four times attendance for the first school back in 2019! We were prevented from holding a school back in 2020 due to the pandemic, but we’re happy to have come back bigger and better than ever. Over the weekend […]

Just days after his term ended as Canadian Labour Congress president, Hassan Yussuff announced—with indecent haste—that he’ll take a patronage seat in the unelected Senate courtesy of strikebreaker Justin Trudeau. This insult to the working class is the cherry on top of a career of betrayal and capitalist bootlicking. How did this sorry story of […]

The grisly discovery of mass graves at former residential schools is bringing home the brutal reality of the genocide of Indigenous people for many across the country. As a result, we are witnessing a broad debate and a significant change in views on Canada’s colonial past and present.