General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
Latest editorial
Canadian chaos is an opportunity
DAVE McKEE argues that Canadian unions should immediately organise to set the agenda before the next election, as monopoly capital is now rallying to the Conservative Party after Justin Trudeau’s political demise
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes an announcement outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
THREE weeks after the abrupt resignation of his deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland, and amid a growing chorus of Liberal Party MPs and regional party caucuses calling for him to move aside, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on January 6 that he will step down as Liberal leader and head of the government.
Through their (current) favourite mouthpiece, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, corporate profiteers used the announcement as an opportunity to press for an immediate election — one which polls consistently suggest would be handily won by the Conservatives.
This aligns nicely with the designs of much of the business community in Canada, who have been opportunistically pressing for an all-party united front to respond to Donald Trump’s tariff threat.
These private monopoly corporations are hoping to consolidate and extend their power by integrating with Trump’s anti-social, anti-democratic, anti-union and warmongering policies.
However, sensing that his party would be trounced in the upcoming vote, Trudeau prorogued, or closed down, parliament until March 24, rather than resuming on January 27, as previously scheduled. During that time, the Liberals will presumably select a replacement for Trudeau.
More from this author
Liberalised class collaboration is holding back the working class, says DAVE McKEE
Similar stories
CJ ATKINS exposes how over half the names on Ottawa’s disgraceful so-called Memorial to the Victims of Communism are Nazis, collaborators or linked fascist groups, the latest in a series of Nazi scandals for Trudeau
