Simon Black, lead organizer with Labour Against the Arms Trade, speaks to Sam Gindin, former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers, about the promise of repurposing the Canadian arms industry’s resources for socially useful production – and winning a just transition for arms industry workers.
Dan Darrah on grocery store workers, and all the things said and unsaid while on the clock: "a clandestine circle of renters, debtors / speaking about today’s time and a half..." A new poem.
A conversation with Monica Forrester, Toni-Michelle Williams, and Chanelle Gallant about why trans women of colour sex workers are the leaders we need, lighting the way to revolutionary horizons.
Sinead Petrasek on how the sanctity of the family is invoked often to protect white supremacy and settler dominance – and the critical role of socialist organizing, past and present, in the struggle against such oppression.
"In less than ten years / cities will drown." A poem by Sanchari Sur.
Susan Ferguson on how the pandemic has laid bare the social reproduction labour that keeps capitalism churning, the fundamental violence of the capitalist system itself, and emerging possibilities for fighting back.
Mike Gouldhawke on capitalism, colonialism, and how we can use Marx’s concept of value as a tool for understanding and changing our current social conditions.
Sean K. Isaacs on how finance capital has increasingly turned housing, schools, and other sites of social reproduction into key battlegrounds of anti-capitalist struggle.
John Clarke reflects on nearly 30 years of organizing with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), and suggests how that legacy might inform struggles unfolding today.