Last month, the Trudeau government announced plans for legislation to tackle plastic waste. The proposed law, which won’t come into effect until the end of 2021 – more than a year’s worth of plastic garbage away – will list plastic as a toxin and [...]
The Constitutional Court’s ruling, that abortion of terminally ill fetuses is unconstitutional, has sparked a nationwide outrage and a wave of protests that has terrified the authorities. Thousands of people have been taking to the streets of [...]
By Owen Schalk Henry Norman Bethune was an accomplished surgeon, a communist internationalist and a forgotten hero of Canadian history. As a member of the Communist Party of Canada he fought with anti-fascist forces in Spain and later volunteered [...]
In 1972, the impoverished and oppressed people of Nicaragua suffered a terrible crisis when an earthquake struck the capital of Managua. An estimated 5000 people were killed, and the city centre was destroyed. International humanitarian aid flowed [...]
Canadian communists warn that battle is far from over The defeat of Donald Trump in the US presidential election is an important victory for the progressive and democratic forces in the US who worked tirelessly over the past four years to expose [...]
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 [...]
Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA Author: Udo Ulfkotte Publisher: Progressive Press, 2019 Review by Tim Pelzer It is well documented that the CIA uses the media to spread disinformation. After 1945, in what is known as [...]
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 [...]
By B Prasant As one walks along the Hazratbal Road in Srinagar on a bright and shiny early winter morning, across the deserted shopping mohalla (neighbourhood) of the Kozirabal enclave and past the housing estates of Mirzabagh that show no [...]
By Owen Schalk On November 8, Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party will be sworn in as president of Bolivia. This outstanding victory is causing leftists around the world to look back with reverence on those who gave their lives [...]
