On the day he was inaugurated, U.S. President Joe Biden scrapped the Keystone XL pipeline via an executive order. The pipeline was intended to carry crude oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast of the United States, the world’s largest market for heavy crude. This project has been proposed, approved, and cancelled twice now since […]

“In the same breath that they tell us that case counts in the plant are on a sharp incline they have the audacity to tell us that this workplace is still safe?”

The Montreal Marxist Winter School has enjoyed revolutionary growth and is now the biggest Marxist event in the country. More than 250 people attended in February 2020, just prior to the pandemic. As we cannot currently meet in person, our 2021 event will be held online and it is set to be the biggest one […]

In early January, Conservative Party of Canada leader Erin O’Toole responded to the news that some high-risk federal inmates would soon be getting vaccinated against COVID-19. He tweeted that “Not one criminal should be vaccinated ahead of any vulnerable Canadian or front line health worker”. With this statement, O’Toole was clearly giving a wink and […]

The swearing-in of the 46th President of the United States was not marked by the typical pomp and circumstance of previous inaugurations. For days, the militarized downtown district of Washington, DC has been described as a “besieged fortress,” patrolled by 25,000 National Guard troops. Soldiers have set up security checkpoints throughout the city and hundreds […]

Pandemics are not historical accidents and the ones that began in 1918 and 2020 are no exceptions. The influenza virus of 1918 was not created by humans, but by an imperialist war, poor living conditions for the working class across the globe, and a lack of will to fight the pandemic, which greatly amplified both the spread and lethality of the virus. These three factors were all products of the system the pandemic occurred within, that of capitalism. And while capitalism did not create the virus, it can be said to have created the epidemic, both in 1918 and in 2020.

A large commercial development on 22 hectares of provincially significant wetlands in Pickering, Ontario is expected to be approved after the provincial government loosened environmental protections last month. The proposed project is the construction of a warehouse by Triple Properties Inc. However, conservation authorities warn that the project will destroy a key part of the […]

Trump has been summarily banned from Twitter and a host of other major social media platforms after he encouraged supporters to storm the Capitol building last week. While there is a gratifying irony in this, Marxists must soberly consider the implications of this move by the Big Tech capitalists.

On Saturday Jan. 9, in an unprecedented move since the beginning of the pandemic, a curfew was imposed in Quebec. Quebec premier François Legault presented this measure as “shock treatment” to curb the spread of COVID-19. However, this curfew is just the most recent in the long line of measures aimed against individuals while leaving […]

Over the course of the pandemic, Manitoba has become the stage of one of the tensest political situations in Canada. Currently, Progressive Conservative (PC) Premier Brian Pallister has the lowest approval rating out of any provincial leader in the country. This is the first time since 2016 that approval for Pallister has dipped below approval […]