Speaking a day after Canada’s foreign minister said war is central to the country’s future, Defence Minister Sajjan outlined plans for rearmament and increased collaboration with the US.
In July, a heavily-armed Canadian Armed Forces’ Ranger crashed through the gates of the temporary residence of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in what had all the hallmarks of an assassination attempt.
Justin Trudeau, presiding over what has been hailed as the most diverse cabinet in Canadian history, has signed on to Washington’s coup plot against Venezuela.
Based on human rights propaganda and a dishonest presentation of the virtues of international law, author Jennifer Welsh argues that the West has to act more aggressively to defend democratic values against terrorism and a resurgent Russia.
Freeland vowed that more “treasure” will be expended on “hard power” to assert Canada’s imperialist interests around the globe.
To prevail in this fight, workers must break free of the trade unions and NDP, and unify their struggles in a global working-class counter-offensive against capitalist austerity and war.
The proposed legislation would impoverish and criminalize workers who refuse to risk their lives and those of their families for corporate profit.
The government’s real agenda is for a rapid return to work, higher corporate profitability and “competitiveness,” and to advance Canadian imperialism’s predatory interests internationally.
The trade unions, the New Democratic Party, the union- and Parti Quebecois-allied student associations and the entire Quebec pseudo-left politically suffocated the strike, confining it to a student protest aimed at pressuring the Charest government and the Quebec elite.
To defeat the social counter-revolution spearheaded by Ford, workers need to build new organizations of struggle in political and organizational opposition to the pro-capitalist unions and NDP.
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Underscoring its support for the government’s $650 billion corporate bailout, the NDP again voted to keep the Liberals in office.
QS is a pseudo-left, pro-capitalist party that articulates the aspirations and grievances not of the working class, but of privileged sections of the upper-middle class.
Fightback has lavishly praised the sellout agreement that CUPE is seeking to impose on 55,000 Ontario school support staff, after scuttling a threatened strike.
Like the rest of the CLASSE leadership, the anarchists opposed a turn to the working class and promoted a Quebec nationalist perspective.
Whenever a consensus has emerged within the ruling class to deploy Canada’s military overseas, the NDP—the ostensible part of the left—has given support.
The report issued by the Truth Commission on Indian residential schools documents a horrific crime perpetrated by Canadian capitalism—a crime whose impacts reverberate to this day.
If anything, the figures presented by Statistics Canada understate the horrific social conditions facing most indigenous people.
The convening of the Incident Response Group and pledges to uphold the “rule of law” are unmistakable signs that Trudeau is preparing to use state violence against native protesters.
Macdonald was a ruthless representative of Canadian capitalism, but the racialist political perspective advanced by those who tore down his statue is deeply retrograde.
Windschuttle’s denunciation of the indigenous Tasmanians as pimps, murderers and thieves is not simply an attempt to revise history. It serves to justify a new era of imperialist violence and colonialism.
