Launch of Canada’s federal election campaign dominated by Trump’s tariff war and annexation threat

None of the parties running in the election offers a way forward for workers seeking to fight Trump’s threatened annexation of Canada, oppose rearmament and imperialist war, defend their jobs and living conditions, and reject the drive towards authoritarian forms of rule.

Stelco and contractor John Kenyon avoid trial over two Ontario worker deaths with plea deal

On April 25, 2023, Gabriel Cabral, 32, and Sean MacPherson, 56, suffered fatal burns while replacing siding on a quench tower at the Stelco steel mill in Nanticoke.

“I and many of my coworkers support the Deutsche Post Postal Workers Action Committee”

Canada Post worker supports German colleagues’ struggle against wage and job cuts

The following statement was sent to the World Socialist Web Site by Daniel Berkley, a leading member of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada), in response to a statement issued by the Deutsche Post Action Committee earlier this month.

Québec Solidaire’s new co-leader Ruba Ghazal promotes the fraud of “inclusive” nationalism

Behind her “moderate left” image, Ghazal is a fervent Quebec nationalist who poses no threat to the established capitalist order.

Seizing on Trump’s trade war, government officials discuss overturning Canada Post’s monopoly on delivering mail

The monopoly over letter mail forms the core of the Crown corporation’s operations. Its erosion or elimination in the name of “liberalizing” trade barriers and protecting corporate Canada’s profits during the trade war would mean the destruction of thousands of jobs and the end of Canada Post as it currently operates.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Police attack pensioners’ protest march in Argentina, while health workers strike throughout Chile.

Canada’s new banker prime minister proclaims “new era” of austerity

Whether Carney, campaigning under the slogan “Canada Strong,” or Poilievre, the champion of “Canada First,” emerges as prime minister after the coming election, the working class will rapidly be plunged into convulsive social struggles.

“Workers in North America and the whole world are so incredibly integrated and productive, we are our own natural allies”

Workers in Canada speak out against Trump’s trade war and the Canadian elite’s nationalist response

Trump’s tariffs threaten tens of thousands of jobs across North America. They are aimed at economically weakening Washington’s northern neighbour to prepare the way for Canada’s annexation as the 51st state of the US.

Following in Trudeau’s footsteps,

Quebec government moves to eviscerate the right to strike

Bill 89, as Quebec’s CAQ government readily admits, was inspired by the actions of the federal Trudeau government, which in the last six months of 2024 repeatedly used a newly cooked-up reinterpretation of the Canada Labour Code to arbitrarily rob workers of the right-to-strike.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Teachers strike across Mexico, while Guadalajara water workers hold strikes and protests.

Former central banker Carney to become Canada’s prime minister

Mark Carney, who has never been elected to public office, is a tried and tested representative of the financial oligarchy.

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 5

Short films and their view of history: How Are You?, Lloyd Wong, Unfinished and Ceasefire

Many of the 20 short films from 18 different countries at this year’s Berlinale dealt with historical issues in one way or another.

Death of humanitarian aid worker on the streets of Ottawa highlights homelessness crisis in Canada

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reported that in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver, a full-time minimum-wage worker would need to work 138 to 141 hours per month to afford a basic two-bedroom unit, leaving nothing for other necessities like food, utilities and transportation.

Canada’s unions mobilizing workers behind country’s capitalist elite with nationalist trade-war propaganda

Canada’s ruling class, furious at the disruption of its eight-decade-long partnership with American imperialism, has responded by promoting vile Canadian nationalism to keep the working class divided and conceal its drive to make workers pay for the capitalist crisis.

Jewish reporter assaulted and arrested for anti-genocide protest at Ontario NDP election night event

The fact that the NDP requires police thugs to silence peaceful protesters at its events exposes its fundamental hostility to the working class it claims to represent.

Autoworkers oppose UAW backing of Trump tariffs and coming job cuts

Workers in the US and Mexico expressed concern about trade war measures and job cuts.

US imposes 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico

Trump’s expanding global trade war will mean mass layoffs and punishing price hikes for workers

The trade war targeting America’s three largest trading partners is part of the Trump administration’s drive to reshore production and secure its dominance over the Americas in preparation for world war against adversaries and nominal allies alike.

Trump’s 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico to take effect Tuesday

Trump’s tariffs will roil the North American economy, with workers in all three countries bearing the brunt in the form of mass layoffs and punishing price hikes.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Workers in Buenos Aires occupied the Anselmo Morvillo printing plant to defend jobs, while in Mexico, thousands marched on the State Government House in Toluca to protest the social crisis.