COVID-19 and the pandemic of anti-Black racism
Sharon Roberts, Arlene Reid and Leonard Rodriques are all Ontario personal support workers who died as front-line workers during COVID-19. Regis Korchinski-Paquet was killed at…
Sharon Roberts, Arlene Reid and Leonard Rodriques are all Ontario personal support workers who died as front-line workers during COVID-19. Regis Korchinski-Paquet was killed at…
John Fitzpatrick interviewed renowned Marxist historian and activist C.L.R. James in Brixton in April 1989 for Living Marxism. This was the last interview he gave,…
The verb “intervene” is a strong word, bringing to mind a range of actions which are supposed to be life-saving. The assumption is that authorities…
While the economic fallout from COVID-19 continues, my partner and I are privileged enough to continue working from the safety of our home. This involves…
May Day is celebrated as a day of international workers’ solidarity, a day to express our shared political aspirations for freedom and a day that points…
With some indications that COVID-19 numbers are peaking across Canada, the debate is shifting from how to stop the pandemic to how to restart the…
Responding to the Keep Your Rent campaign, nearly 60 tenants living in small buildings, basements and rooming houses in the Annex are withholding April rent….
“With the patient’s body considered to be under attack (“invasion”), the only treatment is counterattack. The controlling metaphors…drawn not from economics but from the language…
Apparently there is an alternative. The events of the past few weeks make it obvious that the mantra of neoliberalism – the idea that there…
As the number of recently unemployed workers grows due to the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19, so too does the number of people who intend…
A new scientific report has highlighted the dangers of ignoring COVID-19, and the limitations of short-term simple mitigation strategies. But media and politicians are using…
We’re told we need to “flatten the curve” of the pandemic to prevent a health crisis, but how do we do this? We need to…