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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 [...]

BC election: “Say no to the capitalist crisis – vote for real change!”

Communist Party campaigning in five ridings PV Vancouver Bureau BC Premier John Horgan’s snap election is a cynical attempt to reap political advantage from momentarily favourable polling numbers. By calling the vote a year ahead of [...]

Throne Speech leaves millions in the lurch

Patchwork too thin, too temporary for 4 million victims of capitalist crisis Recent changes to Employment Insurance, combined with the new Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) proposed by the government in the Throne Speech, will slash benefits to 2.7 [...]

Privatization – the next big shoe to drop?

Until COVID-19 triggered the current economic crisis, the “great economic meltdown” of 2007-08 was the largest, most widespread and protracted capitalist crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In response to that deep recession, ruling [...]

Needed now: EI reform, work and wages

The Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament until September 23 is an effort to position the Liberals as defenders of the 7 million people who lost their jobs this spring, the 8.4 million who needed CERB and the 4.5 million who will still [...]

Teachers in Ontario: Back to school, back to struggle

With two million students and hundreds of thousands of education workers returning to schools across Ontario, the provincial government is still refusing to enact health measures that would limit the health risks of the ongoing pandemic. Teachers [...]

Communist Party campaigns for EI reform, jobs and wages

This is a moment of extreme danger and challenges for our planet. The pandemic remains a deadly threat, climate change has not been halted, imperialist wars continue to rage, and fascist forces are on the rise. Here in Canada, governments and bosses [...]

Demand a recovery plan for women!

Not one step further behind! The coronavirus pandemic coincided with forecasts of the coming economic recession. The combination, as we know, has been cataclysmic and both have had an overwhelmingly negative impact on women. The recovery from [...]

COVID, poverty and right-wing populism drive India toward crisis

By B. Prasant in Kolkata Everywhere you go in the rural districts of north India, you find billboards springing up with garish colours and misspelt letterings – touches of haste clearly on show. They read, “Come Back to Kerala. Come Back to [...]