We don’t need more repressive state powers to be enshrined in legislation to fight the far-right. What we need is for the state to stop using the power it already possesses to repress land defenders and workers and to start actually putting people before profits.
Remembered as an artist and civil rights activist who had a profound impact on the history of music and the political scene of her time,…
On Wednesday, February 16, members of the University of Toronto Students’ Union, the second largest student union in Canada, made history by passing a major divestment resolution. This is another win for the global BDS movement in solidarity with Palestine.
Two years into the pandemic – with all the risks of unsafe work conditions, lost pay, and job precarity continuing to fall disproportionately on low-income…
This article was originally published at Passage. It didn’t take tens of thousands of deaths to do it. It didn’t take an uneven federal pandemic…
Doug Ford’s Conservative government has failed the people of Ontario. At every stage of the pandemic Ford has put profits before people, with dire consequences…
Love, politics, and the relation between the two have long been subject to debate on the left. Communist philosopher Alain Badiou argues against the conflation…
“It would be difficult to overstate just how angry people here are about this occupation. People are fed up, and the aura that has surrounded the occupation since it rolled into town has now been broken.”
Leftists should categorically reject the idea of deploying the military to disperse right-wing anti-vaccine protesters. Talk of using the Canadian Forces (CF) to dislodge the…
A People’s Green New Deal by Max Ajl (Pluto Press, 2021) Climate change is no longer a niche subject that climate scientists argue about in…
The climate crisis is the biggest existential threat on the planet and it is driven by a capitalist system that exploits people and nature for…
Bill 124 must be challenged, and not just in the courts. If it is allowed to stand, Ford will continue to illegally infringe on public sector workers’ rights to collectively bargain, which disproportionately impacts women workers.
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