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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 [...]

Canadian Network on Cuba launches campaign for emergency medical supplies

There is a bitter irony in the fact that Cuba, a country which sent emergency medical brigades around the world to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, is forced by the US blockade to confront shortages of medical supplies in its own borders. But [...]

Alberta labour fights back as Kenney attacks health and safety

By Corinne Benson From what I have unfortunately had to witness personally, it is hard to imagine making Alberta’s workers’ compensation laws worse. I have been to the funerals of two Chilean Canadians, who escaped being dumped into the sea [...]

Defund Winnipeg police to fund social and community needs

By Cam Scott As the Executive Policy Committee of Winnipeg’s City Council rushes to pass its 2021 budget, it’s hard not to see this document as a direct rebuke to community health and a show of deadly complacency against a growing social [...]

A WW2 thriller propelled by the real history of rocket science

V2 2020 Robert Harris Random House Reviewed by Leslie Misson A central character in Robert Harris’s V2 is non-fictional: Dr. Wernher von Braun was the charismatic, Nazi engineer who headed the scientific team that designed the [...]

Philippines’ Duterte poised to export anti-communist campaign worldwide

PV Staff Progressive Filipino organizations in North America and Europe are being warning that the government of Rodrigo Duterte is preparing to export its deadly campaign against left-wing activists to those regions. The National Task Force [...]

Tim Buck reflects on the backdrop to founding a revolutionary party

By Tim Buck The rise and growth of capitalist industry in Canada was “welcomed even by those who came off worst from its corresponding mode of distribution.” Exploitation was intense. We laboured ten hours per day. Only a very small percentage [...]

CUPE members call out union for anti-communism in solidarity message

On December 22, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) issued an open letter in which they criticized the national union body for anti-communism in its solidarity message to Indian farmers. The group is asking the union to issue a [...]

Farmers dig in for long haul against Modi’s neoliberalism

By B Prasant As I move away from the massive kisan (farmers and peasants) assemblage at the Singhu border between the province of Haryana and Delhi, a heavy drizzle starts to add to my misery in the bone-chilling cold of late Indian winter. I [...]