Cheddi Jagan “Marxism-Leninism is outdated; it is a foreign ideology, it has no relevance to present day realities…” This is the theme song of the puppets and defenders of imperialism, and unfortunately of quite a few who call themselves [...]
The Canadian economy is slowing during the COVID-19 outbreak, and global energy prices keep falling, but both federal and provincial governments continue to support fossil fuel extraction and export projects. One organization strongly opposed to [...]
In one of the largest military operations the region has seen since the US invasion of Panama in 1989, Donald Trump has ordered a massive buildup of warships in the Caribbean Sea as part of the escalating US aggression against Venezuela. The [...]
The Communist Party of Canada is warning that the federal government’s 75% wage subsidy to business is more likely to add to the profits of the biggest corporations than to help stabilize workers’ wages and living standards. “There are no [...]
The second-largest Indigenous nation in New Brunswick is suing the provincial government for depriving it of a treaty right to harvest timber. The Wolastoqey Nation, which occupies the watershed of the Wolastoq (Saint John) River in western New [...]
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (2013) Author: James Daschuk Publisher: University of Regina Press Review by Kimball Cariou What economic system extends its reach across entire [...]
Last month, 29 trade union organizations across Europe issued a joint declaration about the coronavirus crisis. They saluted the heroic contributions being made by workers in hospitals, research, sanitation and public health, who are risking their [...]
Many progressive folks living in Canada consider the historical legacy of Protestant-based community organizations to be a positive one. As examples of this progressive legacy, they often point to Tommy Douglas, the first social-democratic premier [...]
Helen Yaffe COVID-19 emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019, and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over China and rippling out overseas. The Chinese state rolled into action to combat its [...]
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 [...]
