When faced with a crumbling system, long wait times, labyrinthine bureaucracy, and burnt-out providers, it’s little wonder that workers will back any proposed alternative, with their health and lives on the line

“We had a chance to make labour history and we squandered it.”

The youth are angry at the system which has brought them nothing but misery and destitution. They are abandoning the status-quo Liberals in search of an answer to the doom looming over them. 

Class peace is dying. An epoch of class war is upon us. The labour movement needs to acknowledge this fact and draw all the conclusions that flow from it.

Let’s call a spade a spade. What we have here is the dictatorship of capital. 

One issue underpins the entirety of the ongoing postal workers’ strike: Canada Post management is in a race to the bottom with private corporations. 

It is imperative to extend the movement.

The election of Trump puts Canada’s ruling class between a rock and a hard place.

Let’s build a movement so vast that it brings western imperialism to its knees. 

The 1983 movement reached revolutionary proportions. The reasons why it ended hold lessons for today.