The Parti communiste du Québec (section of the Communist Party of Canada) affirms its unflinching support for the immigrant detainees inside the Laval Detention Center, whose safety is jeopardized by both the current COVID-19 pandemic and the [...]
For many years, the Pivot Legal Society has been a prominent voice for people facing human rights challenges in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. The group says that today, "in these trying times, Pivot has been re-evaluating our work and [...]
These are extraordinary times. News feeds and ordinary working people, not surprisingly, are focussed on the pandemic, the need to combat its spread by physical distancing, and the daily struggle to maintain life and supply the health system under [...]
Virus-stricken Iran stares into the face of pure evil Séamus Kenny Since the victory of the Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of tyrannical US installed monarch Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On March 15, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro filed a formal request to the IMF for $5 billion of emergency funding to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. He wrote, “Only under the spirit of solidarity, brotherhood, and social discipline, we will be [...]
By Peter Miller in Chongqing I’m in China during the pandemic and it’s pained me to see anti-Chinese propaganda gaining ground in the West, including in Canada. Instead of blaming China for a virus that knows no borders, we should be looking [...]
