Notes from Argentina:
What’s Under Attack When Abortion Rights are Under Attack?

Paula Varela on the struggle for safe, free, and legal abortion in Argentina, and what’s lost when forces on the left don’t resist the populist construction of an opposition between gender and “the People.”

Translated from Spanish by Dawn Marie Paley.

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A strip of multicoloured townhouses in Montreal, with their distinctive long staircases. The houses are deep blue, light green, light pink; they have exquisite mouldings.

Québec Solidaire and the Surging Anti-Migrant Right

Michèle Hehn on the complex position of the left party Québec Solidaire, and its implications for anti-racist and migrant justice struggle in Québec and beyond.
Rows of plastic desks in an empty classroom. The desks are grey; some of the seats around them are bursts of colour.

Defiant Ontario Education Workers are Showing Us How It’s Done

The pandemic has reinforced capitalist governments’ belief that they can get away with absolutely anything. But Ontario education workers’ defiance of strikebreaking legislation is demonstrating how even the state’s vast power has limits – when workers unite.
Bursts of red flower buds and green leaves in front of the arched doorway of Castle Mourchekhort in Isfahan Province in Iran. The building appears to be made of sand-coloured marble, and the door within the doorway has crisscrossed wooden slats.

Iran: A History of Violence and A Revolution in the Making

A conversation with Behnam Amini on the uprising in Iran, its historical roots, and its possible horizons.
An empty shopping cart, abandoned in the middle of an empty parking garage.

Storm Clouds Over Capitalism in Canada

Todd Gordon and Geoffrey McCormack on the deepening crisis in Canadian capitalism, how we got here, and how social movements in struggle will shape what’s next.

Why Has the Left Deprioritized COVID?

Raia Small on why the left in the United States and Canada has struggled to mount an effective response to the pandemic’s catastrophes, and where we might go from here.

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