Canada

Canada

• The racist brutality of Canada’s police

  

  Police brutality and wider societal marginalisation of people will be challenged as the BLM movement gathers pace, says John Clarke

• The imperialism pandemic

  

  Imperialism is part and parcel of global capitalism and it can be seen very clearly in the coronavirus crisis, writes David Bush in this repost from Spring Magazine

• To the slaughter: back to work in a pandemic

  

  The reopening of workplaces with no regard for the safety of workers shows the deadly determination of capitalism to protect profits, argues John Clarke

• Coronavirus, climate, and capital: capitalism's destructive irrationality

  

  Capitalism is subjecting itself to great strain and we must be prepared to help it on its way, writes John Clarke

• Rail blockade: indigenous resistance shakes the Canadian state

  

  Indigenous groups resisting a destructive gas pipeline have blockaded one of Canada's busiest rail lines bringing business as usual to a grinding halt, reports John Clarke

• The weaponisation of antisemitism in Canada continues

  

  If we are to confront the reality Israeli apartheid, false charges of antisemitism cannot go unchallenged, writes John Clarke 

• Capitalism and colonialism: hiding the past on stolen land

  

  John Clarke reflects on the legacy of capitalism and the genocidal dispossession of indigenous peoples in Canada

• Western Canada's right-wing 'Wexit'

  

  As fascist and mainstream right-wing forces in Western Canada coalesce, Trudeau's flashy brand of Neoliberalism will be powerless against the rise of violent reactionary forces, argues John Clarke

• Trudeau clings to power

  

  With Canadian neoliberalism safe in parliament, real progress must come from the streets, writes John Clarke

• Blackface scandal threatens Trudeau's progressive act

  

  The blackface scandal Justin Trudeau is embroiled in threatens to tear apart his thin veneer of progressivism, argues John Clarke

• Attack on Palestine solidarity turned back in Vancouver

  

  When the left steps up and organises against the attacks, it can win, as shown in Vancouver, reports John Clarke

• Canada joins campaign to stifle criticism of Israel

  

  Canada becomes the next major player in the international drive to weaponise false allegations of antisemitism to protect Israel, writes John Clarke

• A Canadian genocide

  

  Challenging Canadian colonialism means challenging Canadian capitalism, argues John Clarke

• The Picture of Dorian Trudeau

  

  The neoliberal centre's cover boy cannot protect Canadians from hard edged austerity or the racist right, argues John Clarke

• ‘Progressive’ Trudeau government attacks Venezuela

  

  With neoliberalism's sights set on Venezuela, John Clarke examines the imperialism of a superficially progressive Canada

• A tale of two austerities

  

  The UK’s brutal austerity regime is acting as a template for similar programmes across the Atlantic in Canada, reports John Clarke

• The homelessness crisis deepens across North America

  

  Homelessness is spiralling out of control across the US and Canada as laws are enacted to criminalise rough sleepers, reports John Clarke

• Ontario becomes a testing ground for hyper austerity

  

  Creative organising and resistance are urgently needed as a rampant, austerity-bent Tory government carves its way through Ontario, reports John Clarke

• Toronto rally confronts Zionist slanders

  

  As the Toronto community stands firm against Zionist attacks, John Clarke reminds us that our solidarity with the Palestinian cause mustn't be apologised for 

• We’ve seen the largest rise in poverty since Thatcher: resistance is a necessity

  

  The latest figures on living standards tell us austerity’s class warfare is more dangerous than ever. Mass struggle is an urgent requirement, argues John Clarke

• Populism and polarisation in Ontario: election analysis

  

  The Tory victory shows a missed opportunity for Ontario's labour party, but the left must organise now and fight en masse against Doug Ford's ugly party of the bosses, write activists Doug Nesbitt, Gerard Di Trolio and David Bush ('Fight for $15' campaign)

• Justin Trudeau's dirty deeds for dirty oil

  

  He reps for poisonous pipelines whilst claiming climate piety; Trudeau’s slick cynicism springs protest from London to British Colombia, reports John Clarke

• Basic Income: progressive cloak and neoliberal dagger

  

  BI is not an answer to inequality under neoliberalism. Social transformation will come through collective struggle, argues John Clarke

• Justin Trudeau: The photogenic face of neoliberalism

  

  Behind its enlightened and progressive posturing, Trudeau’s Liberal government plays a reactionary role in Canadian society and the world, argues Ontario-based John Clarke

• The Fight for $15 and Fairness in Ontario

  

  The campaign for a fair wage just won a big victory

• Quebec Mosque shooting: terrorist attack leaves multiple dead

  

  Six people have been killed and a number more injured in an Islamophobic attack on a local Mosque in Quebec city.

• Montreal Massacre, feminism and hate crimes against women

  

  Those who accuse feminists of 'hijacking' the memory of the Montreal Massacre, in which 14 women were killed, couldn't be more wrong, argues Canadian writer and broadcaster Toula Drimonis

• Canada: after Ottawa shooting, dissent is more critical than ever

  

  Since Wednesday’s shooting, the notion that 'Canada will never be the same again' has picked up steam. This cliche carries with it potentially dangerous implications argues Derrick O'Keefe

• Canada: the latest recruits to Obama's new 'Coalition of the Killing'?

  

  As the Canadian Parliament votes to join the US-led war in Iraq and Syria, this editorial from the new left-wing website 'Ricochet' argues that big questions remain unexamined