LABOUR DAY JUST DOESN’T CUT IT. One day a year is not enough to honour all working folks have done, and keep doing every day, to make Canada work as well as it does for all of us. But, making that history—that truth— a visible, accessible and daily presence in our lives is not easy.

By Rudy Wiebe

“If I can’t watch movies I don’t want to be part of your revolution. “

Chamath Palihapitiya is not your ordinary billionaire. He says playing by he rules means no corporate bailouts. Speculators deserve what they get. Workers won't lose.

COVID -19 HAS TAKEN THE WORLD BY STORM. Hundreds of thousands are infected (possibly many times more than the confirmed cases), the list of dead is growing exponentially longer, and capitalist economies have come to a standstill, with a global recession now virtually inevitable.

LIAM KENNEDY CAUGHT CAPITALISM WITH ITS PANTS DOWN. His recent paper “‘Whenever there’s trouble, just yelp for help’: Crime, Conservation and Corporatization in Paw Patrol” argues capitalist propaganda not only exists, but is on prominent display every day on a kids’ TV show

FACEBOOK ADS AREN’T THE SECRET SAUCE ANY MORE. Not since the Russians used them to sell enough Americans on Donald Trump to make him president of the USA in 2016. We all know how they can work.

IDENTITY POLITICS IS THE LEFT’S FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER. Created to do one thing, it does quite another. Created to promote an eager embrace of socialism and it’s bedrock promise of universal inclusion, identity politics only diminishes the possibility of gaining either.

IT’S AS IF THE SONG WAS WRITTEN FOR THEM. “I am woman hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore.” That’s what the women’s anthem I Am Woman says and that’s what the women of tiny Sandy Cove Nova Scotia proved the day of the International Women’s March on January 19.