Op-ed
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June 3, 2020 
The virology of capitalism
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, socialists insist that “Capitalism is the Virus!” Such a phrase is not a casual flip of the script or…
Articles
Analysis
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June 2, 2020
Ford rewriting labour laws to line the bosses’ pockets
The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen unemployment rates skyrocket and businesses close across Ontario. In response, the government has gone out of its way to…
Op-ed
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June 1, 2020
Black Lives Matter, Now and Always #JusticeForRegis
I am a recent immigrant to Canada, and Toronto is the city I chose to make home. As a woman of colour who is an…
Feature
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May 31, 2020
‘You never know when it is going to explode’
John Fitzpatrick interviewed renowned Marxist historian and activist C.L.R. James in Brixton in April 1989 for Living Marxism. This was the last interview he gave,…
Interview
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May 29, 2020
Excluded healthcare workers fight back: Join them!
May 15 saw dozens of front-line health workers protest outside a hospital in Toronto, supported by a cavalcade of allies in their cars. They were…
Analysis
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May 28, 2020
What is permanent revolution?
Addressing the Central Committee of the Communist League in Germany two years after the wave of revolutions across Europe began in 1848, Karl Marx famously…
Analysis
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May 27, 2020
Capitalism, Prisons and COVID-19: On ‘Surplus Labour’
Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers, legal experts, public health officials, and activists, alongside prisoners and their loved ones, have been publicly advocating…
Analysis
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May 25, 2020
Housing and Homelessness in Covid-19
The global health pandemic has only seen an increase in capitalism’s inhumanity. While Jeff Bezos is on track to becoming the world’s first trillionaire (a…
Op-ed
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May 23, 2020
Poet, Priest, Revolutionary: Ernesto Cardenal (1925-2020)
Mike Gonzales remembers Ernesto Cardenal, a priest and poet who participated in Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution and who died this year. I first met Ernesto Cardenal…
Arts & culture
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May 22, 2020
Melancholy and the Infinite Stagnation
I haven’t been listening to a lot of Smashing Pumpkins during the pandemic, but Billy Corgan’s voice has been on my mind. The Pumpkins weren’t…
Feature
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May 21, 2020
What it means to intervene
The verb “intervene” is a strong word, bringing to mind a range of actions which are supposed to be life-saving. The assumption is that authorities…
Feature
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May 20, 2020
Work/life collapse and collective struggle
While the economic fallout from COVID-19 continues, my partner and I are privileged enough to continue working from the safety of our home. This involves…