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 […]

Students are mobilizing at the University of Toronto following the suicide of Keshav Mayya, the fifth student suicide on campus since 2018, amid years of underfunded student services and rising tuition. The death of Mayya, a first year student, was met with a token statement by the university administration. The University claimed that they are […]

The following is the text of a speech given by comrade Darcy Seekaskootch at a demonstration in solidarity with Mi’kmaq fishermen, in Montreal on Nov. 1.

The same Trudeau government preparing $700 billion to bail out corporate Canada can’t seem to find $3.2 billion to end long-term water advisories on Indigenous reserves. It’s been five years since the Liberals were elected on a promise to end all drinking-water advisories by March 2021. The federal government is now backing away from that […]

Haudenosaunee land defenders of the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve set up a reclamation camp, the 1492 Land Back Lane, in July of this year to stop the construction of a housing development on stolen land by Foxgate Development. After several injunctions ordering that the reclamation camp be removed, in late October the […]

Earlier in October, the CBC reported that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had refused to release records related to their surveillance of Indigenous protest movements. They redacted the information using a clause typically related to foreign terrorist activities. The fact that Canada’s spy agency views the just struggle of the Wet’suwet’en against Coastal GasLink’s […]

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.

A massive conflict has erupted in the lobster fishery in Nova Scotia, where Mi’kmaq fishermen are being subjected to harassment, violence, and vandalism. How did we get here? What is the best path to uphold Indigenous rights and find a way out of this crisis?

For Marxists, it is important not to merely glorify or condemn the FLQ, but to soberly study its errors and weaknesses. More than ever today, we need a revolution, and the history of the FLQ and its lessons can help us to understand the way forward in this struggle.

In February 1919, a general strike paralyzed Seattle for six days. The tumultuous epoch that the United States is now entering demands that we study our class’s revolutionary traditions and draw the necessary lessons.