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July 1, 2020 
Canada Day: A celebration of genocide
There are few white-supremacy countries that surpass Canada’s shameful record in political discrimination.
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June 24, 2020
Restore pandemic pay and make it permanent
As an essential grocery store worker, it was heart-wrenching when my company ended pandemic pay while the risk and the pandemic is still going on….
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June 14, 2020
Our tribute to comrade/rafeqa Sarah Hegazi
Within minutes of meeting Sarah at Toronto’s Workers’ Action Centre, she declared to me “I am a communist.” I thought to myself, “Well that saves…
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June 9, 2020
Re-thinking Palestinian prisoners: The front line of resistance
The Palestinian struggle for national liberation can be seen in microcosm in aspects of Palestinians’ daily lives and the multiple dimensions that the struggle plays…
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June 6, 2020
Old Wine, New Bottle: From Social Credit to Basic Income
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, decades of cuts to social assistance and the gutting of social programs by successive governments led many to look to…
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June 4, 2020
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…
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May 31, 2020
‘You never know when it is going to explode’
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,…
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May 21, 2020
What it means to intervene
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…
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May 20, 2020
Work/life collapse and collective struggle
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…
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May 1, 2020
Luxemburg and Lenin on May Day
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…
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April 29, 2020
COVID-19: How should the economy be reopened?
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…
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April 16, 2020
Rent strike in the Annex
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….