Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed—Onward to a Socialist Future!
by Yves Engler
Canada is at a crossroads. Workers, small business owners, and entire communities are being squeezed by rising costs, stagnant wages, and record debt. Housing and food prices have spiraled out of reach for millions, while public services — from healthcare to transit — are defunded and left to decline while the private sector is waiting to fill the gap at a price. Successive governments, be they Liberal or Conservative, seize sweeping powers to restrict Indigenous and labour rights, and crush democratic protest.
At the same time, the billionaire class has accumulated their wealth from centuries of stealing resources and land from the genocide of Indigenous peoples and maintains power to shape society for their benefit. Corporate boardrooms and foreign investors dictate national priorities, while ordinary Canadians are told to “tighten their belts.” The inequality and injustice is systemic and growing.
The Dragon’s Dilemma: China’s Paradoxical and Pivotal Role in the Climate Crisis
by Gary Porter
In the grand, unfolding narrative of climate change, no nation occupies a more complex, contradictory, and ultimately crucial position than the People’s Republic of China. It is a story of staggering scale and profound paradox: the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases is simultaneously its most prolific developer of renewable energy -- a rising superpower whose economic miracle was forged in the furnace of coal, now positions itself as a global leader in the green technologies essential to a sustainable future. Seeking to understand China’s role is not merely an academic exercise; it is a task designed to understand the single most significant variable in the global fight against climate catastrophe. It is defined by three interconnected identities: the historical contributor, the present-day powerhouse of both pollution and progress, and the indispensable arbiter of our planetary future.
Bill C- 9 is the Nail in the Coffin for Canadian Freedoms
By B. Duquesnay
It has been said that when you abandon freedom for the perception of safety you lose both. Bill C-9, the Canadian government’s new “Combatting Hate” legislation criminalizes dissent by threatening Charter rights and the civil liberties of all people in Canada, including those communities that seek protection. George Orwell would be shocked to see how much of 1984 has now become a part of 2025.
As political divides and MAGA politics invade Canada through neoliberalism, fascism and unregulated toxic capitalism, we are witnessing an escalation of the abuse of political power. While our governments have been slow to protect marginalized groups such as Black, LGBTQ+ and Indigenous peoples’ rights, this fast-tracked draconian legislation is intended to provide federal cover for unconstitutional municipal “Bubble Zoning Laws”.
Save Canada Post... Again
By Mike Palecek
Just over ten years ago, a major attack on the postal service was stopped by mass-action from postal workers and community supporters. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cuts at Canada Post went on to become one of the top-five ballot-box issues that led to the defeat of the Conservative government. The Save Canada Post campaign mobilized postal workers alongside community allies, employing a diverse range of tactics in an overall strategy aimed at eroding support for Conservative MPs in their own ridings. Postal workers and the people that depend on them organized town hall meetings, mass demonstrations, leaflet drops, petitions -- even civil disobedience. In the end, it cost Stephen Harper his government. Mark Carney may face the same fate.
The DSA Voted Against Zionism — But Will It Break from the Democrats?
by Maryam Alaniz
At the Democratic Socialists of America’s national convention in Chicago this August, over 1,300 delegates and observers gathered for four days, many wearing keffiyehs draped across their shoulders. The atmosphere reflected a new political mood — and it found expression when delegates passed a resolution affirming anti-Zionism, the first in DSA’s history. On paper, it was just a vote. But in the history of U.S. socialism, this moment was not small. For decades, DSA’s relationship to Zionism has been continuous — going back to Michael Harrington, the organization’s founder, who defended Israel and anchored U.S. socialism to a pro-Israel labor bureaucracy. This resolution marked a break with that tradition.
The Rightward Shift of the Carney and Legault Governments and the Conditions for the Response
by Bernard Rioux
The climate crisis and the collapse of biodiversity are not isolated phenomena that fall solely within the environmental sphere. They constitute a structuring factor in the economic, political, and social situation in Canada and Quebec. These phenomena permeate and disrupt all dimensions of collective life, and reveal the destructive direction of the choices made by current governments. The Canadian and Quebec governments continue to rely on a model of unbridled extractivism and on fossil fuel projects that are in direct contradiction with the imperatives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving ecosystems. This ecocidal course fuels deforestation, water pollution, and the destruction of living environments, while deepening structural dependence on highly polluting sectors. All social movements must seek to coordinate their actions to force governments to back down, impose their demands, and save the planet.
October 7th: The Anniversary of the US and NATO Military Invasion of Afghanistan
by Left Radical of Afghanistan
October 7, 2001, marks the beginning of the bloody military invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and its NATO allies under the pretext of a “war on terrorism”. This date symbolizes the start of two decades of occupation, devastation, massacre, and plunder of a nation that had previously, during the Cold War and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, already fallen victim to the strategic goals and interests of the US and the West through the creation, funding, and arming of fundamentalist Islamic parties and Al-Qaeda. The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by the USA and its allies was not a “counter-terrorism operation”, but a manifestation of the bloodthirsty, hegemonic, and exploitative nature of modern-day imperialism.