Being a socialist organizer means building the confidence, capacity and leadership in those around you to engage in struggle. It means being a militant where you are at.
The politics of Pierre Poilievre are a very major threat but they are also a symptom of societal crisis and the lack of a fighting response on the left. Poilievre won’t wait for the next election to start spreading his poison.
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.
