Lewis’ NDP: Opportunities and challenges for the left
Avi Lewis’ victory in the NDP leadership race in March was decisive. His win is a breath of fresh air in a political landscape that…
Avi Lewis’ victory in the NDP leadership race in March was decisive. His win is a breath of fresh air in a political landscape that…
Austerity and neoliberalism have pushed workers across Bolivia into an indefinite general strike, with miners, teachers, and transport workers, alongside social movement groups (primarily Indigenous),…
Working for Nothing: A Wages for Housework Anthology, edited by Louise Toupin (Between the Lines, 2026). Working for Nothing animates the International Feminist Collective, better…
Ontario’s post-secondary education has been in a prolonged crisis due to chronic underfunding from the government and mismanagement by college and university administrators It is…
Contrary to what the Ford government wants us to believe, public services and public sector workers are our best defense against economic precarity—not privatization.
As socialists, we see the united front method as essential to building lasting, sustainable movements. The recent illegal bombing of Iran by the U.S., Israel’s attacks on Iran, Lebanon and Yemen and its genocide in Gaza, the grinding bloody Russia-Ukraine war and the rise of militarism around the world show we desperately need to build a strong and broad based anti-war movement here in Canada.
Omar El Akkad’s latest book, One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, articulates the emptiness, anguish, and contradictions many of us have experienced while witnessing our governments’ complicity and even justification for the genocide in Gaza. The liberal establishment’s silence and inaction is appalling, but as El Akkad argues, it is not out of character.
On March 6, a frigid day in Toronto, CUPE 79 workers gathered outside the Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre, alongside community supporters, to make their demands…
The narrative that the world is shifting irreversibly to the right obscures the fact that how anger is channeled depends on the political ideas and movements available to workers.
Visiting the picket line solidifies that this fight is bigger than fair wages—it is about defending public sector jobs, good pensions, and rejecting the aggressive push towards precarious and casual work.
Vladimir Lenin’s “Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder” was written in 1920 amidst the Russian Civil War and with the Bolsheviks in power. Lenin wrote the…
As a former international student in the UK, the start of the academic year is a reminder of the outrageous ‘overseas student’ fees I had…

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