More than 9,000 LCBO workers are on strike in Ontario, after years of attacks, in a fight against overwork and privatization

Trump has been summarily banned from Twitter and a host of other major social media platforms after he encouraged supporters to storm the Capitol building last week. While there is a gratifying irony in this, Marxists must soberly consider the implications of this move by the Big Tech capitalists.

On April 15 three of the largest owners and operators of long-term care homes, Chartwell Retirement Residences, Extendicare and Sienna Senior Living, all declared their dividends for April and paid out their dividend for March. This was in spite of the fact that these companies have all had deadly outbreaks of COVID-19 in multiple residences […]

The Bombardier saga continues. After being handed billions in government subsidies, the value of the company’s shares has plummeted by more than 50% and the company is almost $10 billion in debt. Thousands of workers have been laid off and the government has lost hundreds of millions. The elephant in the room is obvious to […]

Three separate instances of Justin Trudeau wearing blackface have surfaced this week. Usually this type of scandal is reserved for Republican governors of the Southern United States, but this goes to show that Canada is not exempt from racism as some believe. These racist photos have also come to light during an election where racism […]

  More than 160 revolutionaries gathered in Toronto, May 18-20 for the 19th congress of Fightback and La Riposte Socialiste, the supporters of the International Marxist Tendency in Canada. The three-day congress brought attendees from Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Victoria, Waterloo, Hamilton, Ottawa, Oshawa, as well as international guests from Britain, Sweden and the United States. […]

On April 5, we published a report about recent attempts made to shut down our events in Ottawa and Toronto. Following the publication of this report, an anonymous individual made allegations online against two ex-members of Fightback. When we responded to these allegations detailing the investigation and actions we had taken, the entire comment thread […]

In the past week, two separate attempts were made to shut down Fightback events using violence and intimidation. The first incident, involving a group of about five individuals, occurred at a Fightback event at Carleton University, in which our activists and attendees were harassed, our materials were thrown to the floor and stamped on, and […]

A feud has erupted between Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau over the issue of immigration. Doug Ford has used a Trump-like discourse, blaming “illegal” immigrants and asylum seekers for societal ills, claiming that, “This has resulted in a housing crisis and threats to the services that Ontario families depend on.” At the end of July, […]