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.
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.
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.
This election has been a wake-up call. If we are going to take on the big business lobby and advance the struggles for a better world, we need to get to work in building the mass movements and campaigns that will make that possible.
On its own, the crypto crash is unlikely to trigger a wider economic meltdown. But the conditions which caused the crash — the pullback of easy money policies by the capitalist class to control inflation — could easily result in a recession. If that happens, a central question of our time of crisis is sure to reemerge: who will foot the bill?
With less than a month to go before the June 2 election Ford is leading in the polls. To change this we need to build strong movements that raise people’s expectations, put workers and racialized communities’ needs front and centre and aim to shift the political terrain to the left.
The pandemic has supersized inequality and inequity in Ontario. In the May Day tradition of fighting for a better world, we should aim to use this May Day to fight for a better Ontario for all, to boost the confidence of all those wanting to fight back against the bosses and the politicians who are fomenting racism and putting profits before people.
We shouldn’t embrace Del Duca’s vague regional living wage promise that in practice will trade off gains of social programs for wages, divide rather than unite workers, and allow employers to exploit a more fractured ESA. We need to keep building the decent work movement, to fight for a $20 minimum wage in every region and stronger employment standards for all.
While there is widespread revulsion of war, support for Ukrainian refugees and opposition to Russian oligarchs, these genuine sentiments are being driven rightward by our ruling class and corporate media.
The OFL’s March 6th activist assembly is an opportunity for the left to build rank and file networks and take on Doug Ford’s big business agenda.
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…
We have to reject winnowing the entire COVID debate down to punitive powers of mandates and lockdowns and focus on building broad campaigns that speak to issues faced by workers. To do otherwise is to leave the door open for the rightwing to pull the entire debate to the right and strengthen the hand of the bosses.
