Less than 12 hours after co-sponsoring a labour-led discussion on the rights of gig workers, United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW) announced it had…
The pandemic has increased inequality and inequities in our society and around the globe. What kind of world we build coming out of the pandemic will be shaped by the struggles over who is forced to burden the costs.
Anyone who has gone to the grocery store this year has noticed the prices of basic food items are going up. For many people in…
The rapid spread of the Omicron variant was predictable and preventable, and the fact that it is happening rests squarely on the business lobby and our governments and media, which have put profits before people.
Last week Ontario’s NDP came out in support of a $20 minimum wage. This is an important opportunity for the entire labour movement and the left to intervene in next year’s election. But with the business backlash already beginning we can’t wait until the June election, we need to organize now.
While NFTs are new, they represent something that is not. This commodification of our digital life is more than just a fad: it is a speculative frenzy that has its roots in capitalism’s contradictory economic recovery.
Over the last several months Doug Ford’s Conseravtive government in Ontario has been busy trying to give itself a makeover. Ontarians were treated to a…
The winning of a $15 minimum wage is the product of years of organizing. This shows how we can win reforms by campaigning, even under right wing governments. But we will need to redouble our organizing efforts to win the stronger employment standards and higher wages that Ontario workers desperately need in our post-pandemic world.
A moralistic approach to social transformation is not only incapable of building the power to win, it can unconsciously reproduce a ruling class perspective about social change. We need ideas that can help us understand our world in order to transform it.
In 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil, the Stop the War Coalition emerged in the UK to resist the coming ‘War on…
The days, weeks and months after 9/11 saw mourning turning into rage and reaction. Grief and fear were transformed into justifications for war and violence. The entire political needle moved to the right at lightning speed. The war on terror unleashed the terror of war.
The left and labour shouldn’t undersell the threat of O’Toole’s “pro-worker” appeal. To fight O’Toole and the corporate agenda we need more than the status quo, we need campaigns and movements fighting for bold alternatives that are rooted in and speak to the working class.
