Feature
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December 29, 2020 
Socialism’s long haulers
We need both larger movements to fight for reforms and bigger socialist organizations that can navigate the twist turns of the struggles ahead.
David Bush
Analysis
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December 10, 2020
Wealth tax: How do we take on billionaires?
If workers in Canada are ever going to get win in a wealth tax, let alone challenge the entrenched interests of billionaires it is going to be because the organized power of the working class won’t accept anything else.
Op-ed
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November 26, 2020
Where are our paid sick days?
We are 10 months into the pandemic and case counts across the country are rising rapidly, yet provincial and federal governments have been unwilling to deliver paid sick days.
Feature
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November 17, 2020
Galen the grinch profits from a pandemic pay cut
“Loblaws delivered better results,” Galen Weston announced, as the company raked in $342 million in third quarter earnings. But the billionaire is profiting from cutting…
Review
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November 10, 2020
A war on disabled people
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford (Zed Books, 2020). Disability issues are not just…
Analysis
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August 26, 2020
Courage is contagious: What we can learn from the NBA players’ strike
In an unprecedented display of workers’ power in the modern NBA, players refused to take the court for game 5 of the NBA playoffs between…
Analysis
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August 18, 2020
Social media and the left
A global pandemic, an unprecedented worldwide economic crisis, and an upsurge in protests for racial justice has raised the stakes for the left in terms…
Analysis
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August 2, 2020
The meaning of ‘Educate, Agitate, Organize!’
Educate, agitate, organize! You may have heard this slogan before on the left, but what does it mean? Where does it come from? This slogan…
Analysis
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July 10, 2020
The other second wave: jobs and the economy
The global economic recession triggered by the pandemic has been the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. And it is far from over. Some…
Feature
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June 6, 2020
Old Wine, New Bottle: From Social Credit to Basic Income
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, decades of cuts to social assistance and the gutting of social programs by successive governments led many to look to…
Analysis
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May 12, 2020
Imperialism and COVID-19
We are not in this together. The divisions that run through our society going into the COVID-19 crisis have only been heightened. Racialized workers are…
Analysis
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April 17, 2020
Don’t subsidize corporations, democratize the economy
On Easter weekend Sid Hynes, the Executive Chairman of Oceanex, a Canadian shipping company, announced they would be cutting back their shipping service to Newfoundland….