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
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
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
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
How to Overhaul a Union Local
Elizabeth So and Karen Jutzi on how members of the Elementary Teachers of Toronto fought to transform their union local’s executive – and won.
August 17, 2022
The Work of Automation
Mani Moksha on “labour-saving” artificial intelligence as a tool of managerial control, and how the tech workers involved with AI might join forces with less advantaged workers to fight back.
May 18, 2022
Logistics Workers’ Strikes and Social Reproduction in China
Ian Liujia Tian on truck drivers’ strikes in China, and the role played in that militancy by those drivers’ wives (Kasao 卡嫂).
April 27, 2022
Workplace Struggle and the Struggle Against Work
Misha Falk on anti-work politics, their appeal and their limits, and how they relate to building working-class power.
April 6, 2022
Fighting Amazon’s New Fordism
Mostafa Henaway on Amazon’s insidious labour model, its continuities and ruptures with shop-floor dynamics of earlier decades, and how to fight it.
March 23, 2022
Labour Solidarity with Palestine is Non-Negotiable
Moe Alqasem and Hassan Husseini on the need for the Canadian labour movement to escalate beyond performative, symbolic solidarity in its support of Palestinian liberation struggle.
February 4, 2022