This election has been a wake-up call. If we are going to take on the big business lobby and advance the struggles for a better world, we need to get to work in building the mass movements and campaigns that will make that possible.
On its own, the crypto crash is unlikely to trigger a wider economic meltdown. But the conditions which caused the crash — the pullback of easy money policies by the capitalist class to control inflation — could easily result in a recession. If that happens, a central question of our time of crisis is sure to reemerge: who will foot the bill?
Ontarians have been waiting with baited breath for more than a year for Ford to finally sign off on a deal with the federal government…
Police are state instruments of class violence, and are indispensable to the maintenance of capitalism. There are few ways in which that violence is deployed…
By empowering workers we can create a world where the exploitation of people and the environment is not the backbone of our social or economic system.
The pandemic has supersized inequality and inequity in Ontario. In the May Day tradition of fighting for a better world, we should aim to use this May Day to fight for a better Ontario for all, to boost the confidence of all those wanting to fight back against the bosses and the politicians who are fomenting racism and putting profits before people.
The housing crisis in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) has gotten significantly worse throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest Rental Market Report from…
The Liberal government’s climate plan, released this March, shows the failure of the status quo and the urgency of mass change. As Atiya Jaffar from…
In the fall of 2021, thousands of public sector workers in New Brunswick, unionized with CUPE, went on strike demanding an increase in pay and…
We shouldn’t embrace Del Duca’s vague regional living wage promise that in practice will trade off gains of social programs for wages, divide rather than unite workers, and allow employers to exploit a more fractured ESA. We need to keep building the decent work movement, to fight for a $20 minimum wage in every region and stronger employment standards for all.
I saw an ad by the federal government this morning that said, “Omicron is a superspreader. Stay home if you are sick.” With little action…
If we want to seriously address workers’ rights in the gig economy, the first thing we need to do is ensure workers have access to the full rights and benefits that are afforded to other workers under the Employment Standards Act. Anything short of this leaves gig workers behind and threatens to erode employment standards for all workers.
