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June 22, 2020 
Defund and Decolonize Now!
The police killing of George Floyd has unleashed street protests across the US, Canada and elsewhere. Thousands hit the streets of Toronto to march against…
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June 17, 2020
The Movement for Black Lives and the Struggle for Democracy
In the days since Minneapolis police publicly lynched George Floyd in broad daylight, the Movement for Black Lives has blown the lid off democracy-as-usual. Hundreds…
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June 11, 2020
By the Numbers: Crime, Colonialism, and anti-Black Racism
Through the continued effects of genocide and colonization on Indigenous populations, and of the transatlantic slave trade and its resulting oppression of Black populations, Black…
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June 2, 2020
Ford rewriting labour laws to line the bosses’ pockets
The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen unemployment rates skyrocket and businesses close across Ontario. In response, the government has gone out of its way to…
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May 28, 2020
What is permanent revolution?
Addressing the Central Committee of the Communist League in Germany two years after the wave of revolutions across Europe began in 1848, Karl Marx famously…
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May 27, 2020
Capitalism, Prisons and COVID-19: On ‘Surplus Labour’
Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers, legal experts, public health officials, and activists, alongside prisoners and their loved ones, have been publicly advocating…
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May 25, 2020
Housing and Homelessness in Covid-19
The global health pandemic has only seen an increase in capitalism’s inhumanity. While Jeff Bezos is on track to becoming the world’s first trillionaire (a…
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May 14, 2020
CFL bailouts: A trick play
The Canadian Football League is in danger and, therefore, so is Canada. At least, that’s what league commissioner Randy Ambrosie would like to have you…
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May 13, 2020
COVID-19 and the right to refuse unsafe work
Throughout the course of the pandemic, the Ontario government has been keen to remove worker control over job sites. We saw it with the override…
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May 12, 2020
Now is the moment to expand public services
The events of the past two months have shone a spotlight on the underlying weaknesses of Canada’s crumbling welfare state. Many people in Canada are…
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May 12, 2020
Imperialism and COVID-19
We are not in this together. The divisions that run through our society going into the COVID-19 crisis have only been heightened. Racialized workers are…
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May 7, 2020
COVID or capitalism: What’s causing the food crisis?
“The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get…