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Put people before profits to end the health crisis!

“Capitalism a super-spreader” says Communist Party’s Ontario leadership PV Ontario Bureau The Communist Party of Canada’s Ontario Executive Committee is demanding immediate action in the face of ongoing governmental failure to address the [...]

Ontario communists demand a halt to evictions, support for encampments and housing for all

PV Ontario Bureau Among the series of crises that the coronavirus pandemic has caused and exposed in Ontario, one of the most dramatic is in housing. Homeless people have been exposed to the virus in overcrowded shelters and, as a result, [...]

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 [...]

New Brunswick campaign for long-term care reform gathers steam

When New Brunswick’s Conservative Party won a majority in the recent snap election, it expected a clear path to deep austerity and sweeping privatization. But the province’s labour and community movements are quickly mobilizing a campaign to defend [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Communist youth in India raise $1.4 million for COVID-19 relief

By Muhammed Shabeer Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, leftist youth organizations across the world have been in the forefront of both providing relief and resisting attempts to attack people’s rights. In India, the ‘Recycle Kerala’ [...]

Housing crisis escalating but government response prioritizes corporate landowners

As governments lift the temporary bans on evictions that were put in place during the initial stages of the COVID-related economic crisis, an estimated 16 percent of people in Canada are at risk of losing their housing. Nearly 6 million people could [...]