People's Voice

Austerity vs Employment – a call for a unity and solidarity in Alberta

PV Alberta Bureau The Alberta Legislature will convene on February 25 with a new Speech from the Throne. “At only 12% of the way though our mandate, we’ve delivered on 43% of our commitments to Albertans so far,” tweeted Alberta premier Jason [...]

Growing resistance against Horgan and Trudeau energy policies

PV Vancouver Bureau The courts and both the federal and provincial governments continue to back the drive by energy corporations to expand the extraction and export of fossil fuels in British Columbia, but resistance is also rising. Over a [...]

Ukraine: NATO ensures peace remains a distant hope

The Normandy Four talks, held in Paris on December 11 between Russia, Germany, France and the Kiev regime of Ukraine, produced not much except more of the same: vague commitments to seek peace, agreements on prisoner exchange and gas supplies, but [...]

Music Notes: Chilean anthem calls out femicide

A flash mob performance piece written by a feminist collective in the Chilean city of Valparaíso has been taken up by women worldwide as a battle cry for justice. “Un violador en tu camino” (“A rapist in your path”) is an important part of the [...]

Two murals, two breaths of new hope

By Victor Grossman No one on Berlin’s main eastbound traffic artery could miss one of the two murals, five stories high, 2745 square feet in area, in shiny bright, red, green, yellow and blue colours up to the gabled rooftop of an older, isolated [...]

Environmentalism, animal liberation and veganism – a class-based approach

Greta Thunberg has become a powerful icon in our popular culture, with Time magazine naming her the Person of the Year for 2019. While many governments and business leaders, including Donald Trump, have lashed out at her activism and even at her [...]

On the edge of another war, a review of the nature of capitalist state powers

By Andrew Taylor Written on the eve of the October Revolution, Lenin’s “The State and Revolution” is a fundamental contribution to Marxist thought, clarifying the nature of the State and its role in revolutionary society, i.e. “the dictatorship [...]

Anti-Semitic creep: rooting out “the longest hatred”

As the contradictions within capitalism sharpen, the world is hurtled through a gauntlet of ever deeper crises. At any given moment we face the threat of economic collapse, war or environmental catastrophe – or some combination of the three. In [...]

An accelerated attack on working people in Ontario

Working people in Ontario are facing major political struggles in order to defend already meager living standards and their social and economic rights. We have only seen one third of the four-year term of the Conservative majority government, and [...]

Racism a reality in Canada

Canada has a racism problem (and the fact so many Canadians think we don't is a part of it) Perhaps after an election where Justin Trudeau was exposed for having worn blackface on several occasions and yet not only was not forced to resign as [...]