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May 18, 2020

Communist Party demands release of non-violent prisoners

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Oscar Figuera: Imperialist war threatens humanity

After COVID-19: Humanity’s radical needs… and glaring flaws

Film uncovers the dirt on greenwashing, but fails to dig…

Oscar Figuera: Imperialist war threatens humanity

Yadira Cruz Valera The Secretary General of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), Oscar Figuera, warned that the possibility of an imperialist war threatens humanity and puts the existence of life on the planet at risk. During a [...]

Prison justice advocates rally at hard-hit Mission Institution

The rain was falling hard at noon on May 3, as cars slowly pulled into a deserted parking lot outside the municipal hall in Mission, BC. But within a few minutes, the skies began to clear, and ten vehicles drove a couple of hundred yards to the [...]

State plunder by Bolivia’s coup regime

Bolivia’s state-owned services are being dismantled and sold off to the private sector, exiled former president Evo Morales warned on Saturday, accusing the coup administration of destroying the country. Morales reminded Bolivians of the need to [...]

After COVID-19: Humanity’s radical needs… and glaring flaws

COVID-19 has reminded us, brutally, that not only do capital, goods, ideas (useful and nasty) and people flow like wind and water in this world; our mutating viruses do too. Less obviously, the pandemic has put communism back on the table. I use [...]

Help us finish with a strong final push!

As federal and provincial governments begin to implement “reopening” plans, corporate lobbyists are making sure they have politicians’ ears. We know, for example, that the oil industry has had multiple meetings with governments at different levels, [...]

A labour of love from a lover of labour

A Worker’s Friend Peter Marcus 2019 Granville Island Publishing “Poetry is a reflection of the society in which we live and its past and its political future,” writes Peter Marcus in the introduction to his book of poetry, A Worker’s [...]

Film uncovers the dirt on greenwashing, but fails to dig up alternatives

Planet of the Humans (2019) Released on YouTube, April 2020 Written and Directed by Jeff Gibbs Producer Michael Moore April 2020 was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and environmentalist all around the world marked this date in [...]

Canadian mining corporation deepens exploitation during virus

Mauritanian workers strike Kinross Tasiast mine On May 6, Toronto-based Kinross Gold Corporation released its financial statements for the first quarter of 2020. The huge multinational reported quarterly cash balance of over US$1.1 billion and a [...]

Pandemic brings out far-right responses

When is science not actually scientific? One answer is that research which cherry-picks and manipulates facts to support a preconceived hypothesis is not truly scientific. Long after Galileo and Copernicus demolished the Ptolemaic theory, some [...]

The pandemic hits East Van: it didn’t have to be this way

So far during the COVID-19 pandemic, I'm one of the relatively fortunate ones. My family lives in an affordable and well-run housing co-op with an amazing view of the mountains from our roof deck. My office is just a few blocks from home. I have [...]

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