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Pallister’s COVID response a mortal sacrifice on the altar of profit

Across the world, the impact of COVID-19 continues to reveal deepening inequality. Throughout the developed capitalist countries, free market ideologues have escalated a foreseeable second wave in pursuit of profit, creating the perfect conditions [...]

Kashmir – is the worst yet to come?

By B Prasant As one walks along the Hazratbal Road in Srinagar on a bright and shiny early winter morning, across the deserted shopping mohalla (neighbourhood) of the Kozirabal enclave and past the housing estates of Mirzabagh that show no [...]

What’s next for Bolivia? MAS president needs serious socialist vision

By Owen Schalk On November 8, Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party will be sworn in as president of Bolivia. This outstanding victory is causing leftists around the world to look back with reverence on those who gave their lives [...]

Second wave reveals Doug Ford’s true colours

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic crisis, Doug Ford tried to rehabilitate his image and that of his government. Replacing the hard right figure – who had attacked broader public sector workers, teachers and [...]

Alberta wildcat: a strike against Kenney’s “triple attack” on working people

Hospital workers in Alberta have been ruled back to work by a court injunction, after an impressive wildcat strike at hospitals across the province. The militant action, which began on October 26, is in response to Health Minister Tyler Shandro’s [...]

Disney forced to finally “open its ears” to racism, sexism in its catalog

By Rolando Pérez Betancourt They denied it for many years, but the weight of reality ended up tipping the balance. Disney has finally acknowledged on its gigantic streaming platform that there are racist stereotypes and other offensive material [...]

No rest for anti-colonial struggle under lockdown

By Alex Geddie In some ways, the spring lockdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic came as a boon to the Canadian state, which, over the winter of 2019-2020, saw a series of increasingly successful examples of resistance to its colonial [...]

BC campaign ends with NDP majority, but tough challenges for working people

PV Vancouver Bureau After a short BC election campaign ended on October 24, John Horgan's NDP is ready to form a strong majority government in the next legislature. The right-wing corporate Liberals under Andrew Wilkinson suffered a major [...]

Toronto’s winter plan for homelessness falls too short to prevent deaths

By Alykhan Pabani I care deeply about my neighbours and try in earnest to support the struggles of those less privileged than me. When the pandemic hit, the nature of these struggles became even more acute and as a result, an ad-hoc group of [...]

A fraternal kiss between the Spectre of Communism and the Holy Ghost?

By Dean Dettloff “The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we are asked to believe this dogma of neoliberal faith. Whatever the challenge, this impoverished and repetitive school of thought always offers the same [...]