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Strong Strike Mandate for Graduate Student-Workers (PSAC 901) at Queen’s University
Graduate student-workers at Queen’s University, unionized as PSAC DCL 901, have been in bargaining since Spring 2021. As negotiations came...more)
Blockades - not Trudeau’s emergencies act - is the way to deal with far-right
We stop them in the streets
After weeks of far-right led convoy protests which have taken over cities and border crossings, working people have had enough...more)
Eugenics: The sinister ideology behind COVID “normalization”
The headline of the January 12 Bloomberg.com op/ed says it all: “Say Goodbye to Self-Isolating, WFH Mandates, Mass Testing.” The...more)
Progressive politician faces violence in wake of convoy
Trucker convoy leaves stinking fumes
St. Catharines city councillor Karrie Porter was awakened at 3:00 AM, January 30, when a cowardly vandal hurled a large...more)
Sleazy Ontario Tories rake in cash from COVID
It’s a twofer for Doug Ford: use COVID as a pretext to privatize health services and at the same time...more)
Trucker convoy a farce – but no joke
The “Truckers For Freedom convoy” itself is a farce. It is a handful of pickup trucks and SUVs being driven...more)
Canada fuelling tension in Ukraine
Canada’s role in Ukraine is intensifying the possibility of war. The Liberal government is sending more military equipment to the...more)
Ford’s Bill 37: Profits 1, Long-Term Care 0
New law means more government cash for for profit LTCs
On December 7 of last year Bill 37, amending the Long Term Care Act of 2007 was passed despite strong...more)
Ontario: big rat jumps DoFo ship ahead of election
First rule of political spin: if something is bad for your government/party, announce it late on a Friday afternoon. Breaking...more)
Trade unions must mobilize to support abortion rights in the US
Women's right to chose is under attack. Only a mass movement can win abortion rights
Access to abortion in the United States is deteriorating as right wing forces opposed to the equality of women win...more)
Fighting racism in construction from the bottom up
In January of 2021, socialist.ca published an article that featured Kimoy Francique, a woman of Afro-Caribbean descent who is an...more)
Race, Empire and Settler-Colonialism in the writings of Marx and Engels
with Padraic Gibson, socialist activist with Solidarity (Australia) In the classical Marxist tradition, anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles are of central...more)
Uprising in Kazakhstan
What is behind the protests in Kazakhstan?
In early January, mass protests erupted in Kazakhstan. Initially, the protests were the workers' reaction to more than doubling of...more)
What to watch during a pandemic, omicron edition
Diversions for a covid winter
Here in Ontario movie theatres are again being shut down, along with gyms, restaurants, etc. As Ontario and the world...more)
Omicron is out to get me
This time its personal. When it comes to the ultra-transmissible new COVID variant – omicron – I have a big...more)
New far-right threat for Ontario
Far right finding new formations amid pandemic chaos
Maxime Bernier is using the COVID emergency to try and forge a new, right-wing political force in Ontario politics. To...more)
Public Sector workers’ pandemic strike back
Public sector workers in Canada are fighting austerity
While the #Striketober wave of strikes was building in the US working class, a similar wave in labour militancy is...more)
Gidimt'en re-takes Coyote Camp - Join the Defund CGL actions this week!
Join the week of action – December 20-27
A post on the @yintah_access instagram account on Sunday morning (Dec 19) announced: "Early Sunday, Gidimt'en land defenders evicted Coastal...more)
What is State Capitalism?
Workers self-emancipation is the heart of socialism from below
Recent events on the global front have underlined the importance of what might have been seen as a dead theory,...more)
David Suzuki was right, but the BC Government started pipeline violence.
The state is using violence to build the pipelines and worsen the climate crisis
David Suzuki told CHEK news during an Extinction Rebellion rally in Victoria BC, “We’re in deep deep doo-doo. They’ve been...more)
Trudeau, Horgan fiddle while BC drowns
The climate crisis isn't in the future. It is here right now
Justin Trudeau stood at the podium at the COP26 summit in Glasgow and talked tough about the need to limit...more)
Homeless and under attack
Capitalism won't solve the housing crisis.
London, Ontario has always taken better care of its golfers than its vulnerable population. There are 53 courses in and...more)
All out for Wedzin Kwa - Solidarity for Wet'suwet'en after the Nov 18/19 RCMP raids
Sollidarity actions continue for Indigenous rights
While much of southern BC was impassable with roads and other infrastructure washed out by a huge storm, causing injuries,...more)
Support students who walked out for Palestine - Stop the attacks on free speech!
Send a message to TDSB
From Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East Last week, hundreds of students at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute...more)
What next after COP26 failures?
All out for solidarity rally for Wet'suwet'en!
As the planet's elites wined and dined at the COP26 meetings in Glasgow, the anger of protesters decrying the continuing...more)

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