How the CIA sabotaged African independence
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams (Public Affairs, 2021) There is no denying that many countries in Africa…
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams (Public Affairs, 2021) There is no denying that many countries in Africa…
The politics of housing is a struggle between the rich and the rest of us
The Ford government allowing landlords to raise rent by 2.5 percent when tenants are continuing to struggle sends a clear message about the ruling class’s priorities: profit over all else.
The baby formula shortage is the result of large corporations putting profits before the needs of infants and their parents.
Galen Weston is a symptom of a system that puts profits before people. It is time to not only curb the power of billionaires but to end the system that produces them.
Faced with high inflation the ruling class is driving us into a recession and fomenting unemployment in order to preserve profits. To justify this they fear monger about workers’ wages leading to a wage-price spiral. This is simply a diversion from the fact that capitalists are out to protect their profits.
James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 by Bryan D. Palmer (Brill, 2021) James P. Cannon and the Emergence…
While the bosses try to blame workers for inflation, the rising cost of of living is leaving workers with no other choice but to organize and fight.
Low-wage workers have been hit hardest by the pandemic, they were the first to lose their jobs and most likely to get COVID. A new…
One of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s first actions in his first term was to cut paid sick days, which fuelled the spread of COVID-19. Ford then promised “the best paid sick days in North America” but only provided three temporary days. Now one of his first actions during his second term is to let these days expire at the end of this month, which amounts to cutting paid sick days a second time.
Churchill is a symbol for the continued project of imperialism, colonialism and capitalist rule. Underneath the charming and quirky portrayals we are fed in the media lies a politician who supported almost every reactionary cause of his day and whose crimes in service of the empire extended across the globe.
‘Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad’ examines case studies of colonial atrocities that are not incidental failures of Canadian capitalism, but are coordinated operations vital to the functioning of the Canadian state.