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October 13, 2020 
COVID and the classroom
You are a teacher, and a student in your already crowded class starts coughing at their desk so loudly that it’s causing a disruption. What…
Articles
Interview
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October 12, 2020
On the front lines as a food packer in a pandemic
Workers who once had job security and benefits are turning to increasingly precarious frontline positions in “essential” sectors during the pandemic. They face the stress…
Feature
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October 11, 2020
“Our resistance is not going to stop until they do”: Support 1492 Landback Lane
On October 9, about 200 people rallied and marched in Toronto to support the land defenders whose campaign is #1492landback. The event was part of…
Feature
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October 9, 2020
Second wave: Striking back against COVID-19
As we enter the second wave of the pandemic, workplaces remain a key site of struggle both in terms of health and safety and against exploitation.
News
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October 8, 2020
Tackling anti-Black racism and settler colonialism in higher education
Last Wednesday the All Out September 30 strike, a student-led strike against racism, was held in order to “hold our administrations and provincial government accountable for…
Feature
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October 7, 2020
Grocery store workers are taking on the Loblaws empire
Over 1400 workers at the 11 Loblaws-owned Dominion grocery stores in Newfoundland have been on strike since August 22. The workers are striking for fair wages, paid sick days and full time jobs.
Review
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October 6, 2020
Marxism and intersectionality
Marxism and Intersectionality by Ashley Bohrer (Columbia University Press, 2020) “After years of defending intersectionality in Marxist circles, and of defending historical materialism in intersectional…
Analysis
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October 5, 2020
Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en and #LandBack
This is a key moment, and we must let both TC Energy and the Wet’suwet’en know the whole world is watching.
Op-ed
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October 2, 2020
Free Cihan Erdal!
On September 25, eighty-two individuals were arrested in Turkey as part of a broad campaign of repression against the People’s Democratic Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi,…
Op-ed
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October 1, 2020
MEC and the myth of the capitalist co-op
On September 14, Canadian outdoor retailer Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) announced that it would be sold to Los Angeles based Kingswood Capital Management and become…
News
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September 29, 2020
Encampment Support Network marches for housing
On Wednesday, September 23, several hundred community members attended a “Meal and March for Housing” in Toronto, organized by the Encampment Support Network (ESN) to…
Review
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September 29, 2020
Settler capitalism and the colonial imagination
Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination by Tyler A. Shipley (Fernwood, 2020). In 2009, Stephen Harper received widespread criticism for declaring…