The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all parts of society and has thrown hundreds of millions out of work globally. However, a closer look reveals that women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Women workers play a key role in health care, child care, elder care, and teaching while experiencing low wages, insecure employment, and domestic and sexual violence—all of which have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

In an article full of errors and mistruths, the National Post attempted to demonize socialists with false allegations of antisemitism. Reacting to left NDP MP Niki Ashton’s plan to feature former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at an online event, the right-wing National Post sought to mobilize “shock and revulsion” against these prominent socialists. This attempt to “cancel” Ashton and Corbyn is hypocritical in the extreme, given that the Post is currently waging a campaign against so-called “cancel culture”. For the right wing, anybody spouting racist ideas is a heroic fighter for free speech, while anybody opposing the oppression of Palestinians is a terrible antisemite who needs to be shut down.

How do we acquire knowledge? Is there a real world beyond our senses? And if so, what is our relation to it? In this important theoretical contribution, marxist.com editor Alan Woods mounts a defence of materialism against idealism and the obscurantist, postmodernist subjectivism popular on university campuses today.

In mid-February a fire tore through several tents in a Victoria homeless encampment. A week later, another fire broke out in a Winnipeg homeless encampment leaving one person dead. A day after that, a fire in a Toronto homeless encampment left another person dead.  Responses to these tragedies from politicians and city officials have been […]

A powerful show of anger and opposition to the military coup launched at the beginning of February was evident on the streets of cities across Myanmar last Monday (February 22nd), as a general strike paralysed the country, from Myitkyina in the north, to Bhamo near the Chinese border, to Pyinmana in the centre. The protest rallies were […]

A recurring lesson in history is that no ruling class ever gives up its wealth, power and privileges without a fight. Those who threaten the existing order face the most savage repression. The state, which represents the interests of the ruling class, will use every means at its disposal to destroy those who challenge this […]

Quebec premier, François Legault’s latest threat to intervene in universities to “protect our freedom of expression” reeks of hypocrisy. In reality, it will serve as a pretext for rightwing ideas to be more prevalent on campuses, while restricting the ability to criticize them.

Last week, a devastating winter storm hammered Texas and wreaked havoc on 90% of the state’s energy infrastructure. The crisis caused a loss of heat, unreliable water utilities, and structural damage to homes. A projected four million people were without power at one point. Nearly 70 deaths have been attributed to this disaster, and magnitudes […]

Alberta’s teachers received a not-so-welcome holiday gift this year: a ministerial order hijacking their hard earned pension funds. The money will now be funnelled into the controversial Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo). This last minute move by United Conservative Party (UCP) Finance Minister Travis Toews quietly skipped the news cycle, as it was executed only […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing an already ailing public health system to the brink. Meanwhile, capitalists are taking advantage of the situation to enrich themselves. It is high time to expropriate these private health-care parasites. The health-care system is reaching the breaking point While the peak of the second wave seems to have passed, the […]