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90th anniversary of the Colonial Building Riot provides a lesson on class conflict and organizing

By Ky Rees and Sean Burton In the early 1930s, the Dominion of Newfoundland was in a deep economic crisis along with many other parts of the capitalist world in the Great Depression. The price of cod, the country’s chief product, had bottomed out [...]

What would a People’s Budget look like?

Editorial The buildup to the 2022 Budget has been interesting, with plenty of competition for government spending and priorities. Certainly, the Liberal-NDP pact that was announced last month includes a lot of the promises that working people have [...]

Racial equality and workers’ liberation – two sides of the same coin

PV Labour Bureau On March 21, 1960 a group of 7000 people marched to the police station in Sharpeville township in South Africa, to protest apartheid “pass laws” which restricted the movement of Black people. Police tear-gassed the peaceful [...]

Liberal-NDP deal good for workers? Not without a workers’ fight!

The Liberals and NDP have announced a “supply-and-confidence” agreement that will see the two parties work together on seven policy areas and avoid a federal election until 2025. But is it good deal for workers? The parties say the deal commits [...]

Working class struggle: “Good collective action versus the convoy”

The forces behind the “Freedom Convoy” claim that it is a working-class movement, based on the needs and demands of working people across the country. As proof, they point to the number of working people who are present at the protests. [...]

Building the growing fight against privatization

PV Labour Bureau One of the most important outcomes of the COVID pandemic is the widespread call by healthcare workers, community organizations and the public in general, to bring all long-term care (LTC) facilities under public ownership and [...]

Communists in Ontario call for escalating mass action against Ford

Provincial convention says working class must fight “in its own name, on its own terms” PV Ontario Bureau The Communist Party convened its 31st Ontario Provincial Convention from November 27-28, with province’s 15 Party clubs participating. [...]

Labour faces key struggles in 2022

Editorial Any reader of People's Voice knows that we recognize a comprehensive range of issues as being critical to the working class and the struggle for socialism. Through 2021 we covered the critical battles for labour, and some of these cast [...]

OFL Convention: labour and the working class are at a crossroads

PV Labour Bureau As far back as the 16th century, people said “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” When it comes to the working class in Ontario, labour leadership has been led many times to the rivers of class struggle [...]

Metro Days of Action – 25 years on and still lessons to heed

By Dave McKee Friday, October 25, 1996. I got up very early – around 4 in the morning – and called a cab because Toronto’s transit system was down. As I made my way through the city’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose [...]