Workers in several industries across Québec are getting ready for what’s beginning to look like one of the highest points of struggle in recent memory. Just like everywhere else the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the economy, with governments and [...]
As federal and provincial governments begin to implement “reopening” plans, corporate lobbyists are making sure they have politicians’ ears. We know, for example, that the oil industry has had multiple meetings with governments at different levels, [...]
The current health crisis is a good indication of why the socialist press is so important to the working class and progressive movements in this country. People around the world are being hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. The most vulnerable [...]
LJC du Québec On the occasion of the International Day of the Francophonie, celebrated on March 20 since 1988, the Ligue de la jeunesse communiste du Québec salutes all those who struggle to keep this “language of France with American accents” [...]
Dear friends, We aren’t even a quarter of the way through it, but already 2020 is looking like a year of incredible struggle. Around the world, we see people in India are mobilizing by the millions to oppose a fascist BJP government, defying [...]
Containment, Heroism, Fear and Lies As my almost-empty Shanghai subway train pulled into a station in the middle of February, I came face-to-face with an ad for UnionPay, the Chinese debit card found in everyone’s wallet. All members of a [...]
Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019) Director: Abby Martin Writers: Mike Prysner, Abby Martin Review by Jay Watts In the wake of the Bush-era box-office popularity of socially engaged documentary films like Fahrenheit 9/11, The Fog of War and [...]
When voters in El Salvador elected President Nayib Bukele in February, many believed that his “Nuevas Ideas” movement offered a new alternative to the two parties – the right-wing ARENA and left-wing FMLN – that had dominated the political arena in [...]
Canada is clearly in the middle of a severe addiction crisis. What is presently lacking is a coherent approach to what can be done to prevent so many of us from dying. In 2018, for example, a reported 4460 people died from opioid overdoses in [...]
