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February 18, 2021

Trump exits, Biden enters, Cold War continues

Editorial
February 17, 2021

We need a working class climate plan, not capitalist greenwashing

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February 17, 2021

Put people before profits to end the health crisis!

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February 12, 2021

Four years after the Québec mosque shooting, Islamophobia remains a powerful tool for the ruling class

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UK-EU trade deal maintains domination of big business

CPC centenary: Communists in the anti-apartheid movement

Laurentian bankruptcy: neoliberal policies get the failing grade

Book convincing on the need for peace, but not on the promise of Biden

Recovery: Peace prospects in the Biden era (2020) Author: Douglas Roche Publisher: Khalid Yaqub Reviewed by Ed Lehman Douglas Roche’s latest book contains a lot of valuable information and could be an important stimulus to [...]

Cli-fi helps expose capitalist roots of climate crisis and need for socialist alternative

By Leslie Misson Climate fiction (cli-fi) is now a widely recognized literary genre. It has proliferated so rapidly that it’s difficult to keep up. Common features of cli-fi include references to alternative histories, aliens, geoengineering, [...]

UK-EU trade deal maintains domination of big business

By Robert Griffiths and John Foster The UK-EU trade agreement is a compromise between the interests of British state-monopoly capitalism on the one side and those of German and French monopoly capital – represented by their states and the EU – [...]

CPC centenary: Communists in the anti-apartheid movement

Thirty years ago, in June 1991, apartheid was legally abolished in South Africa. While it would be another three years until the country’s first democratic election – years that included violence like the Bisho massacre and the assassination of [...]

Laurentian bankruptcy: neoliberal policies get the failing grade

The February 1 announcement that Sudbury, Ontario’s Laurentian University had gone bankrupt made front page headlines and sent shock waves across the country. There’s good reason for this – universities are public institutions, and they are supposed [...]

An exploration of Maoism and its continuing allure

Maoism: A Global History 2019 Author: Julia Lovell Publisher: Penguin Random House Reviewed by Brian W. Major Julia Lovell’s book is a detailed study of the history, impact, appeal and legacy of Mao Zedong and Maoism globally. [...]

Ontario communists demand a halt to evictions, support for encampments and housing for all

PV Ontario Bureau Among the series of crises that the coronavirus pandemic has caused and exposed in Ontario, one of the most dramatic is in housing. Homeless people have been exposed to the virus in overcrowded shelters and, as a result, [...]

Against Modi terror tactics, Indian farmers stand firm

By B Prasant, Kolkata The farmers’ sit-in has now passed two months. In the rainy winter cold of northern India, 171 of the demonstrators have succumbed to the extreme weather, mostly the elderly and the ill. None of the central or state [...]

Quebec communists: “Lockdown or not, we must continue to organize”

The Communist Party of Quebec (PCQ) is concerned about the alarming numbers of new cases of COVID-19 infection. With more than 2,500 cases daily for the past few days, there is a real danger of overloading our health care system to the point where [...]

Seafarers keep global economy moving during COVID-19, but face widespread abuse

By Alex C The transportation of goods by sea has always been vital to the global economy. Raw materials are first transported to factories, then the finished products are directed to various markets. It is estimated that 90 percent of the [...]