The Left Chapter11 hours ago4 minDemands for paid sick days in Ontario growAs the pandemic surges in the province the desperate need for paid sick days in Ontario is increasingly obvious. The Ford government con...
The Left Chapter6 days ago3 minAnti-choice groups got the government's CEWS wage subsidy In addition to all the other issues with the CEWS, it turns out that extremist anti-choice groups like the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethica...
The Left ChapterJan 36 min2020: The year in review on The Left ChapterIt is hard to overstate how momentous a year 2020 was. Among so many other events, it was the year of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, t...
The Left ChapterDec 23, 20205 minSnapshots from the pandemic class war in CanadaAs the year ends the rich are not only getting richer, they are doing so so brazenly at the expense of everyone else that they obviously ...
The Left ChapterDec 17, 20202 minLeft Democratic Front in Kerala wins big victory in local electionsThe victory comes just a few months before the May, 2021 state elections in which the LDF is hoping to retain power. Bus stop bench in th...
The Left ChapterDec 11, 20203 minGrowing coalition supports Wet’suwet’en calls to close BC work camps`"To put the interests of economy and industry ahead of Indigenous lives is not public health." LNG Work Camp. Image via Twitter A growin...
The Left ChapterDec 9, 20202 min"Your great uprising, a living poem of freedom and justice composed by 250 million people."CPUSA solidarity statement with striking workers and farmers in India On November 26 India witnessed the largest general strike in the hi...
The Left ChapterDec 4, 20202 minThe "establishment of a just, democratic and equitable international order is an imperative"Excerpt from a statement at the thirty first Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel, President...
The Left ChapterDec 1, 20201 minSolidarity with Kisan Struggle!Joint Left parties statement in solidarity with the mass farmer protests in India. Joint statement of the Communist Party of India (Marxi...
The Left ChapterDec 1, 20202 minWho will pay for Ontario's food delivery app fee cap?CUPW says that while the Supporting Local Restaurants Act "may help small businesses, it provides little protection to couriers making th...
The Left ChapterNov 26, 20205 minFord attacks, Ontario Nurses' Association supports Auditor General's pandemic reportOntario Premier Doug Ford tells Auditor General Lysyk to "Stick with the job that we hired you for. Don’t pretend you’re a health profess...
The Left ChapterNov 19, 20205 minClass and the pandemic in OntarioThe government and bosses are trying to shift the blame for the devastating pandemic surge in the province from factors like overcrowded ...
The Left ChapterNov 19, 20203 minNDP and Greens back Trumpian Conservative motion on ChinaProgressives should not be supporting a Conservative motion tinged with anticommunism and Cold War style nationalism that could have been...
The Left ChapterNov 17, 20202 minNational General Strike called in India for November 26The country's unions are organizing a one-day, country-wide strike against the “the anti-people, anti-worker" polices of the Modi governm...
The Left ChapterNov 14, 20202 minOutrage as Loblaw profits and dividends rise, but workers left outProfits and dividends up, pandemic pay gone, and 12 week Dominion strike ends with little improvement for workers. Many took to social me...
The Left ChapterNov 12, 20202 minSacramento joins growing list of US cities calling for collaboration with Cuba"The people of Sacramento would benefit from Cuban biotechnical, medical, and public health expertise in combating the COVID-19 pandemic....
The Left ChapterNov 11, 20205 minPandemic approach in Ontario prioritizes business over peopleHeadlines like "Ford eases COVID-19 restrictions as Ontario case count hits new high" reflect the dangerous priorities and bizarre air of...
The Left ChapterNov 3, 20204 minBacklash as CLC and President Yussuff back Morneau at OECDMany in the Canadian labour movement oppose the CLC's embrace of Morneau, that included a joint statement with the Canadian Chamber of Co...
The Left ChapterOct 30, 20202 minDominion strike talks break down as Loblaw refuses to budge on offer“After ten weeks the company has not made one single improvement to their initial three-year offer,”: Unifor Assistant to the National Pr...
The Left ChapterOct 29, 20203 minLabour actions in Alberta and Newfoundland met with legal and police threatsThis week saw two examples of rising labour militancy, one in Alberta and one in Newfoundland. Both were met with very rapid intervention...
