What Happens if Long COVID Makes More & More People Too Sick to Work?
Capitalist pandemic denial and the cost of living crisis are connected. We should organize on that basis.
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January 19, 2023
Socialists at City Hall
Andrea Pinochet-Escudero on possibilities awakened and capacities built during the VOTE Socialist electoral bid for municipal office in Vancouver.
January 12, 2023
Beyond the Rituals of Class Compromise
John Clarke on the need to move beyond the demobilizing compromise between capital and organized labour that developed in the post-war period, with its rules of engagement that no longer serve the working class.
January 4, 2023
Why We Need Mass Movement Climate Justice Politics
David Camfield on competing strategic visions of the fight for climate justice today, and why mass movements are indispensable. Excerpted from the new book Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.
December 27, 2022
Beyond Decriminalization, Towards Reproductive Justice: We Are Still Fighting in South Korea
Na Young, an organizer with the South Korean sexual rights and reproductive justice centre SHARE, on building coalitions to transform abortion’s volatile, precarious legal status into substantive access to reproductive care.
December 13, 2022
Making Up
"There are spaces to lie down / on scavenged mattresses, / under woolly capes. / Or on newly sewn duvets / stuffed with milkweed down. / Places to kiss and warm and hold." A visionary new poem by Mahaila Smith.
December 4, 2022
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.
November 25, 2022
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.
November 17, 2022
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.
November 6, 2022
50 Years Later, We Should Still Be Talking About the 1972 Common Front
Mélissa Miller and Alexis Lafleur-Paiement, members of the Archives Révolutionnaires collective in Québec, on one of the largest workers’ strikes in Canadian history and what we can learn from it today.
November 2, 2022