R.F., a union activist in Quebec, on the strengths and limits of recent strikes by that province’s public-sector workers – one of the largest surges of labour militancy in the history of the Canadian state. Translated by Nathan Rao.
Emma Bainbridge speaks with Norman Nawrocki about his new book Red Squared Montreal, a fictional chronicle of the 2012 student strike.
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.