People's Voice

Stop Irving Oil’s “pandemic profiteering”

Editorial The richest family in New Brunswick just doesn’t feel quite rich enough. And it is prepared to hold the province’s most vulnerable people hostage as it pressures the government to guarantee higher “pandemic profits.” The Irving Oil [...]

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 [...]

2020 had some important steps forward – we can turn them into big strides in 2021

If you’re like us, you were pretty happy to see the arse end of 2020. The pandemic meant that the better part of 10 months was spent in some form of lockdown-distancing isolation and the accompanying economic crisis threw millions of people in this [...]

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 [...]

Argentinian women: “We will never go back underground!”

Legal, safe and free abortion is law in Argentina, after the Senate assented to a pivotal struggle for the country’s feminist movement. Now the fight will continue for its effective implementation. The Senate approved the Voluntary Termination of [...]

US blockade caused Cuba $5.5 billion economic loss last year

By T. Whitney Jr. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry every year prepares a report on Cuba’s experience with the US economic blockade of the island, in force since 1962. On October 22, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez presented this year’s report at a press [...]