The federal election and the fight for paid sick days
The election provides an opportunity to amplify the movement for paid sick days across the country and build momentum after the election.
The election provides an opportunity to amplify the movement for paid sick days across the country and build momentum after the election.
Ford’s recent announcement is not a win: it is a temporary concession used to stave off permanent and employer-paid sick days. The movement has shifted the needle on paid sick days, but it has much further to go to win paid sick days for all.
This week the Ontario legislature will debate Bill 247, Paid Personal Emergency Leave Now Act, 2021. This would amend the Employment Standards Act to provide…
The national disgraces of LTC deaths and other COVID-19 inequities are rooted in the disgraces of genocide and slavery on which this nation was built, and which are perpetuated through prisons, police, borders and carceral policies
As we mourn the loss of frontline workers, we need to fight for all workers living through the same conditions by taking the profit out of healthcare and providing paid sick days for all.
These movements for social and economic equality, which preceded the pandemic and have grown through two waves, offer real hope. Not only for achieving vaccine equity and ending the pandemic, but also winning a world beyond borders, police and precarious work.
On Christmas Day 1914 over 100,000 soldiers from warring nations in Europe put down their weapons and celebrated Christmas together in defiance of their ruling…
To maximize the effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccine it has to be universally accessible
With 10,000 COVID deaths across the country and another 6,000 predicted by the end of the year, there are two possible courses: watch and wait,…
Roy’s life and politics in the 1920s embodied the connection between socialism and anti-colonialism that continues to inspire.
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…
Bayard Rustin, has been largely written out of history—for being gay, a socialist, and a war resister. Now, as movements for social and economic equality rise again, his life and politics have a new relevance.