By Ivan Stoiljkovic, Doug Yearwood and Romy Sugden The defeat of the Soviet Union caused misery and death to millions of Soviet people and ushered in the increased immiseration of the working class in capitalist countries. Without the threat of a [...]
By Stuart Ryan If you ask people in Canada about the most important issue in a federal election campaign, they often say it is the public healthcare system, Medicare. There is, however, a gap in public healthcare, and that is long-term care [...]
COVID-19 is producing a bumper crop of cash for Big Pharma. Among the worst profiteers is Pfizer, which the Canadian government has contracted to provide up to 76 million vaccine doses to fight the pandemic. In the deal, Pfizer stands to make a cool [...]
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 [...]
“They took all the trees / And put them in a tree museum / Then they charged the people / A dollar and a half just to see 'em” So wrote Joni Mitchell in 1970. She, of course, meant this as irony – a slap-down to the “chop it – pave it – sell it” [...]
“Capitalism a super-spreader” says Communist Party’s Ontario leadership PV Ontario Bureau The Communist Party of Canada’s Ontario Executive Committee is demanding immediate action in the face of ongoing governmental failure to address the [...]
Editorial The richest family in New Brunswick just doesn’t feel quite rich enough. And it is prepared to hold the province’s most vulnerable people hostage as it pressures the government to guarantee higher “pandemic profits.” The Irving Oil [...]
Four decades of privatization and cuts to public funding of healthcare, social care, housing and education are “the leprous hands of neoliberal capitalism” that allow “private corporations to walk away with billions that should have been used to [...]
By CODIR September 2 marked the 80th day since workers of the Haft-Tappeh Sugarcane complex in the south of Iran came out on strike, on June 15. They are demanding their unpaid wages, medical insurance, reinstatement of dismissed colleagues, [...]
Meeting on November 16-17, the Ontario Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Canada reiterated its demand for the nationalization of General Motors. The committee endorsed the grassroots Green Jobs Oshawa campaign that calls for the [...]
