Ontario is in crisis. The stakes are high. We can’t afford inaction, which will only demoralize workers, but open the door to right to push an even more reactionary agenda. We can either roll over and let the bosses win or stand up and say Enough is Enough!
The rise in food insecurity is the result of skyrocketing food prices, rising rents and stagnant incomes. But these are just symptoms of a larger issue, a system that thrives on inequality and benefits a small number of profiteering elites at the expense of the working class.
We are in the midst of both an environmental crisis and an affordability crisis, which are linked. The solutions on offer, from raising fares to relying on electric cars, don’t solve either problem. But increasing access to public transit is good for all workers, all riders, and the planet. Taking action for free and accessible public transit can win reforms and set us on track for climate justice.
“I was told by one daycare facility today that parents are waiting over 2 years for spaces. I was told by several daycare facilities in…
Oil workers extract fossil fuels that are the life-blood of the system. But this work extracts a health toll from workers and surrounding communities, and contaminates the environment. When oil workers have moved into action to challenge these contradictions, they have helped topple regimes, win health and environmental regulations, and imagine a world beyond capitalism and oil.
The market doesn’t care about any of us. But it surely does not care about your grandma. The people in power insist that the current…
A united working class, based on migrant justice and Indigenous sovereignty can challenge Canadian borders, bosses, and the climate crisis.
Royalty plays an important part in reinforcing ideas that inequality is natural and of the impossibility of fundamental change. It has no place in a democracy and is anathema to the idea of socialism and equality.
Threats and violence against unhoused people serve to reinforce property relations and labor markets, which inevitably harm all working-class people. They also serve purposes of further enclosure—establishing community or public spaces as sites of surveillance, policing, and social control.
We must raise our voice for restructuring the tea plantation system in Bangladesh. Not out of sympathy for their woes, but in solidarity with their fight for their rights.
Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis is rooted in the decades long state project of neoliberalism and genocide directed at Tamils. The new protest movement in Sri Lanka has created a laboratory for radical self-organization from below that can challenge anti-Tamil chauvinism and the ruling class.
Unions have an opportunity to put the Tories on their back foot and break the back of Bill 124. This can unite workers across sectors, and push back on the broader privatization agenda. The time is now to build the confidence of workers to take on the Tories and fight for higher wages.
