The Red Review | Issue #30 (Mar 2026)
A Socialist Action Journal
Bring the Fight against Capitalism into the NDP
By Jasmine Peardon, Socialist Caucus candidate for federal NDP President
Tragically, the NDP has followed the path of late capitalism– a system in dismal, dangerous decline. As environmental regulation and working-class power have been attacked from above, both capitalism and the party have increasingly centralized power at the top, becoming arrogantly distant from the lives and basic needs of the working class. This process has dis-empowered activists and socialists precisely at the moment they are needed most. These evident shifts are not the product of ‘errors’ but reflect the systemic pressures operating within the party.
Carney’s “Middle Nations” Turn: No Solution for Workers
by Gary Porter
Mark Carney has the reputation of ‘being the smartest guy in the room.’ Every word of Carney’s celebrated speech in Davos was written by him personally. In the days prior to the speech, Carney met privately with a number of key European leaders. The groundwork was well prepared, evidently. Carney received a standing ovation, a rarity at Davos among the billionaire attendees and their senior political and bureaucratic appendages. Some say there have been only 3 standing ovations in the 30 year history of the World Economic Forum.
The Dialectic of Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution
by Tyler Brittain and Tom Baker
At the age of twenty-six, Leon Trotsky played a leading role in the failed Russian revolution of 1905. While he was in jail awaiting trial, he penned a ninety page article that analyzed the social forces behind the revolution. “Results and Prospects” offered a ground breaking explanation of how a technically backward country such as Russia could produce the most advanced political result - a workers’ revolution for socialism.
115 years of International Women’s Day For Women’s Liberation and Socialist Revolution!
by Imogen Xavier
In Copenhagen 1910, a women’s conference of the Socialist International launched International Women’s Day. In 1978, Trotskyist parties, including the predecessor organization of Socialist Action / Ligue pour l’Action Socialiste in the Canadian state, re-launched the annual IWD. Women’s systemic subjugation, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of socioeconomic oppression are rooted in capitalism’s relentless pursuit of profit. Ultra-conservatives and religious fundamentalists seek the further subjugation of women to uphold their archaic patriarchal power structures.
Finding a Political Home: “Capitalism Can’t be Fixed” Insurgent Socialist Campaign
by Zachariah Allister
The end of the summer break was near. I had been spinning my tires on finding a place to complete my journalism internship and with it, my journalism degree. There was just something about applying to these payless positions for corporations, that enabled the live streamed holocaust in Palestine. It just didn’t sit right with me. At this point I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to be a journalist in the current Canadian political environment.
U.S. Threatens War with Iran
by United National Antiwar Coalition
President Donald Trump has amassed a large armada around Iran and is sending more ships, missiles and troops. He threatens to “wipe Iran off the face of the earth.” The “peace” president who wanted the Nobel prize has threatened to annihilate the 90 million people who live in Iran. Iran has said that if they are attacked by the U.S. or Israel, they “will respond in the hardest way possible.” As was seen during the recent 12-day war, Iran was able to cause great damage to Israel and penetrate all U.S. and Israeli defenses. Israel was forced to ask Trump to intervene, which he did, leading to an agreement to stop the war. Expecting serious retaliation from any attack on Iran, Trump is beefing up the air defense around the U.S. and Israeli bases in the area.
Cuba’s Response to Donald Trump’s Threat of War
by René Tamayo León
“We are living in a time when U.S. imperialism is emboldened and has once again set its sights on Cuba with increased aggression, which grows with each passing day,” denounced Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, on Friday morning during the Extraordinary Plenary Session of the Provincial Party Committee in Havana. The Head of State made an incisive analysis of the events that have unfolded in the region and the world since January 3, following the aggression against Venezuela by the U.S. government, and which now threaten the island.
Wet’suwet’en Activist Marlene Hale Warns Carney About Alberta Oil Deal: “There Will Be an Uprising”
by Global Green News
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly signed oil deal with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith — a plan to build a major interprovincial pipeline through British Columbia — has triggered an immediate and forceful warning from Wet’suwet’en land defender Marlene Hale: if the federal government pushes forward, a massive Indigenous uprising is inevitable. In an extensive interview with Global Green News, Hale criticized both Carney and Smith for advancing what she calls a “dangerous, Trump-style resource agenda” at a moment of intensifying climate catastrophe and ongoing violations of Indigenous sovereignty.
Rojava and the Geopolitics of Betrayal
by Rezgar Omer
Since 2011, emerging from an ideological trajectory distinct from the jihadist factions within Syria, the revolution of the peoples of Northern Syria rose as a grassroots movement demanding human dignity and fundamental rights. Today, however, this experiment faces a draconian international conspiracy. Built upon the ruins of the centralized Ba’athist state through the collective participation of Kurdish, Arab, and Christian communities, Rojava presented an advanced model of “Democratic Confederalism”, proving that self-governance is possible without external intervention (Knapp, Flach, & Ayboğa, 2016). Yet, the military offensives of 2025 by the Syrian state, bolstered by Turkish coordination and the financial backing of Gulf States, particularly Qatar, have dealt a devastating blow to this project.