The COVID-19 pandemic can be stopped, but only if we act now. But the Canadian government is more concerned about protecting corporate profits and Donald Trump than taking the necessary measures. Working class action is necessary to stop thousands from dying. Every day they delay taking the necessary measures means more people will die. On […]

The COVID-19 outbreak has spread rapidly across the globe, leaving unprecedented social, political and economic dislocation in its wake. Despite the delay, Canada too is now feeling its impact.  As of now, more than 190 people have been diagnosed with the virus in Canada. This is likely an underestimate given the absence of wide-scale testing. […]

Events on a world scale are moving at breakneck speed. The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has set in motion a chain reaction, which is upending any semblance of stability in one country after another. All of the contradictions of the capitalist system are coming crashing to the surface.

“People are running scared,” said Andrew Sullivan, director at Hong Kong brokerage Pearl Bridge Partners, as the capitalist system faces an economic meltdown. This is Black Monday all over again. Stock markets around the world, from London to Tokyo, are in free fall. Everything is pointing to a repeat of 2008 but on a higher […]

The coronavirus crisis is more severe in Italy than anywhere else in Europe. Comrades of Sinistra classe rivoluzione write that his shows the chronic failures of the government – whose response so far has been totally inadequate, and which is attempting to shunt the economic burden of the emergency onto working people. The spread of […]

Ontario public health officials sounded the alarm last year when Doug Ford’s government announced major cuts to provincial health care funding. Toronto Board of Health chair Joe Cressy was blunt when describing the impact of the cuts: “People will die,” he said. “People are going to die.” The experience of the 2003 SARS crisis, in […]

On Tuesday, March 3, Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced his new offer for striking teachers. The government now says it will limit class size averages in secondary schools to 23—down from the previous proposal of 25, and an even further drop from their initial plan to raise class size averages to 28. The government […]

After years of debate, state discrimination against religious minorities has been enshrined in law in Quebec with the adoption of Bill 21. Unfortunately, opposition to this bill has been confused to say the least. While the left and the workers movement have generally opposed this law, no one seems to know what to do. Up […]

On Feb. 21, for the first time in 24 years, all four major teachers unions in Ontario went on strike, shutting down the province’s public education system for a day. This was in response to cuts by the Doug Ford Conservative government. Unfortunately, instead of taking the strike to the next level, union leaders are […]

What a difference a year can make. Last year, after the RCMP raids on Wet’suwet’en lands the solidarity response was relatively muted. There were solidarity statements, some protests, and slogans of Indigenous struggle were taken up around the country. In the end though, the response paled in comparison to what we have seen after the […]