The privileged position Canada once enjoyed on the world stage is under threat. This will have profound implications for politics, the economy, and the class struggle.

The liberal elite looks on Trump’s actions with abject horror. They denounce him as an “imperialist”, an “oligarch” and worse. But one should not throw stones in a glass house.

The anger revealed by the support for Luigi must be directed into a mass movement, a collective struggle to overthrow capitalism.

The looming trade war poses a serious threat to the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers in Canada. But do the union leaders have a plan to counter this threat?

This is not our war

As Trump pivots US foreign policy to attempt to assert the dominance of US capital on the continent, politicians and business leaders are panicking, trying to avoid disaster. What is the position of Communists faced with this situation?

Yves Engler’s arrest is an outrageous attack on the Palestine solidarity movement.

Since Trump entered power, the whole of the world situation has been transformed.

Democracy under capitalism is capitalist rule. And it’s the most stable form of capitalist rule: by allowing for elections and the peaceful transfer of power between parties, the masses can express their political dissatisfaction, while real power stays in the hands of capital.

Contrary to what the majority of Hollywood films show, it was not the United States, Britain or any other capitalist country that defeated Nazism, but the workers’ state of the Soviet Union.