A recent poll by the Toronto Star found that nearly 60 per cent of Canadian workers agreed with the statement “I’d be happier if I didn’t have to work at all”.

In fact, over the past few years, we’ve seen a growing movement against work—or at least against the current conditions of work under capitalism.

An offensive is underway on Montreal campuses to slander, provoke, and smear activists who oppose Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

We wish to denounce these attempts by university administrations, capitalist politicians, and the media to attack the Palestinian solidarity movement in this way. We invite student associations, student unions, and anyone defending the cause of the oppressed to do the same.

A recent poll commissioned by the Fraser Institute, a right-wing “think tank,” found that 54 per cent of people aged 18-34 think that socialism would “improve the economy and well-being of Canadians.” The authors of the study were shocked and appalled at this finding. But it doesn’t end there. According to their poll, a whopping one million young Canadians say socialism isn’t enough, they say that communism is the ideal economic system.

The current surge in inflation has resulted in a rapidly rising cost of living. One of the consequences of this is massive rent hikes. This is particularly affecting students, most of whom earn very little to no income, and many of whom are forced to resort to cramped and substandard living conditions. It is a […]

The capitalist crisis is hitting the working class hard as living conditions worsen every month.  The situation is particularly bad for youth. Indeed, we are the first generation to be worse off than our parents. It sucks to be young under capitalism! When the economy took a nose dive in 2020 triggered by the COVID-19 […]

The crisis of capitalism continues to deepen. This has exacerbated the housing crisis and led to an increase in homelessness across the country. Rising inflation and interest rates will only make things worse. The housing crisis in B.C. has been particularly acute, with university students hit particularly hard. According to British Columbia’s 2020-2021 homelessness survey, […]

On June 6, the discovery of 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the Kamloops residential school led to massive public outcry across Canada. Since then, more than 5,000 graves have been found at 20 residential schools, bringing Canada’s genocidal history to the forefront of popular consciousness. At Ryerson University, named after one of the […]

As COVID spread across the world, many activists were forced to take the struggle against capitalism online. Traditional avenues of organizing in the real world were cut off, and it was necessary  to adapt. Social media discussions, Facebook groups, Zoom meetings, and Twitter threads replaced traditional face-to-face organizing methods. This was inevitable; online activism was […]

A revealing new report shows how the crisis of capitalism is robbing an entire generation of its future, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has deepened and exacerbated the system’s senile decay. The Financial Times is currently running a series on the problems faced by under 35s across the world. The picture painted by their latest […]

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 […]