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September 28, 2022 
The market doesn’t care about your grandma
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…
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September 15, 2022
Migrant justice = economic and climate justice
A united working class, based on migrant justice and Indigenous sovereignty can challenge Canadian borders, bosses, and the climate crisis.
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September 14, 2022
Royalty and the ruling class
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.
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September 6, 2022
Vigilantes and violence against unhoused people
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.
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August 31, 2022
The anti-colonial roots of the tea workers’ labour struggle in Bangladesh
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.
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August 25, 2022
Tamil and Sinhala people ignore each other’s struggles at our peril
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.
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August 22, 2022
Break the back of Bill 124
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.
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August 3, 2022
Uber’s “innovation” is a cutthroat war on workers’ rights
Last month, a former lobbyist for transportation company Uber leaked over 124,000 confidential documents to the Guardian that reveal the lengths to which the company…
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August 2, 2022
WIPB extension shows the need for 10 permanent paid sick days
In the middle of the seventh wave and under pressure from the decent work movement, the Ford government announced another extension of the Worker Income Protection Benefit (WIPB). But by simply extending the deadline without adding paid sick days, the government is diluting paid sick days until they finally cut them again. But if the movement can force the government to provide temporary and inadequate paid sick days, it can also make them permanent and adequate.
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July 28, 2022
How to be a socialist organizer
Being a socialist organizer means building the confidence, capacity and leadership in those around you to engage in struggle. It means being a militant where you are at.
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July 27, 2022
The dangerous rise of Pierre Poilievre
The politics of Pierre Poilievre are a very major threat but they are also a symptom of societal crisis and the lack of a fighting response on the left. Poilievre won’t wait for the next election to start spreading his poison.
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July 21, 2022
Repressing the homeless in the Halifax region
The politics of housing is a struggle between the rich and the rest of us