As the second wave drags on and Toronto and Peel have entered lockdown, everyone wants to know: how did we find ourselves in this situation? The right-wing politicians and the media have put the blame on individuals for socializing. In Brampton’s case, they are blaming racialized workers for the particularly bad outbreak there. However, the […]

On Oct. 27, the Ford government passed Bill 168. This bill will cement the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism into law. This happened suddenly, without any consultation from members of the community despite outcry from both Jewish and Palestinian activists. In particular, critics of the IHRA definition point out that it conflates […]

On Oct. 7, Ottawa police violently burst into the Aust family’s apartment, using a battering ram and flash grenades. Soon after, 23 year-old Anthony Aust had fallen to his death.

On July 22, a Federal Court ruling struck down the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), ruling in Canadian Council for Refugees v. Canada that it violated the Charter right to life, liberty and security of the person. The STCA has been the subject of criticism since its inception in 2002. This agreement between the United […]

Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman and mother of seven, died in a Joliette hospital on Sept. 28. This was after she filmed her cry for help, claiming she was overmedicated by the nurses. In the video we see nurses and attendants insulting her and making racist comments. Carol Dubé, Joyce’s partner, is adamant: “Systemic racism […]

In March of this year, three Louisville police officers broke into Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend’s home after midnight. The cops fired 32 shots in the apartment, killing Taylor in a barrage of bullets. In its recent ruling, the capitalist courts did not indict a single officer for this extrajudicial murder. The announcement was met […]

This is what is called a political strike. It is not a strike for wages and benefits. It is a collective action by workers—in this case, professional basketball players and others—who exercise their power to withhold their labor to achieve a political goal. The rest of the labor movement must support, join, and expand such actions to the entire working class. The leaders of the AFL-CIO and all the unions should stop standing on the sidelines!

Another unarmed black man has been shot by police, this time in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The now-viral video of the shooting begins with Jacob Blake walking around his car to open the driver’s side door to get in, tailed immediately by two cops. One of the police grabs the back of Blake’s shirt, pulling him backwards to prevent […]

Following the police murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests quickly engulfed the United States. These protests soon gained steam internationally, including in Canada, with thousands of protesters raising slogans such as the demand for the arrest of the officers involved, and the defunding and abolition of police. […]

On Sunday, July 5 in Montréal, hundreds of people drove in protest against the dehumanizing racial profiling of Black drivers, known as “Driving while Black”. Two convoys, draped in Quebec and Canadian flags, converged at metro station Namur where several city councilors and activists gave speeches. Demonstrators came from Longueuil, Repentigny, and Terrebonne, showing that […]