kate klein and griffin epstein on challenging the labour movement to take the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and disability justice seriously, and on alternative modes of labour organizing when traditional forms fall short.
Emma Bainbridge speaks with Norman Nawrocki about his new book Red Squared Montreal, a fictional chronicle of the 2012 student strike.
Brian McDougall on the contradictions and lessons of the 2023 PSAC general strike, the largest strike by a single union in Canadian history.
Annie Faye Cheng on migrant farm workers’ creative tactics when faced with exclusion from traditional legal and trade-union protections, in both Canada and the United States.
James Graham on the need for a revolutionary socialism that grasps the real dynamics of labour, disability, and capital – and refuses to leave disabled people behind.
S. K. Hussan on the fight for permanent residency rights for 1.7 million migrants in the Canadian state – a case study in building revolutionary organizing.
Capitalist pandemic denial and the cost of living crisis are connected. We should organize on that basis.
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.
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.
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.