By Cam Scott The life of a Communist Party, in its everyday intensity and historical specificity, too often eludes commemoration. There are meetings, demonstrations, pickets; glowing victories and momentary defeats. So much remains unwritten in [...]
History was proclaimed “ended” when, between 1989 and 1991, socialism was overthrown in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. It was a historic setback for the working class around the world, dismembering the socialist community and tilting [...]
Long before the Communist Party of Canada was founded on May 28, 1921, workers in Canada had begun to study the revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. This led them to found different political organizations which could merge [...]
Working people suffered terribly during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Factories closed, mass unemployment swept the country, farmers were evicted, and poverty became widespread. When right-wing labour leaders gave up on fighting for their [...]
Dave McKee Marxists have long understood the link between capitalist expansion and environmental degradation. As Frederick Engels wrote in 1876, “What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and [...]
Canadian media and politicians claim that this country’s public healthcare system is “what separates us from the Americans.” Social democrats have baptized Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)/ New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Tommy Douglas as [...]
In 1917, International Women’s Day in Russia helped to launch the Russian Revolution, which ended up inspiring working people around the world. This included many working women in Canada, several of whom helped found and build the Communist Party of [...]
