Annual May Day mobilizations provide a number of opportunities for revolutionary communists. They’re an opportunity for us to put revolutionary politics front-and-centre in the minds of workers and oppressed people, to commemorate the history of revolutionary struggles which continue to present the best hope for the future, and to take stock of the state of […]
Toronto
Jordan B Petersen and the Fascist foothold in Canadian Academia
Having thrown itself headlong into the struggle to confront, expose, and disarm fascism and misogyny, the MER-RSM in Ottawa and their comrades were successful in shutting down the screening of the MRA funded The Red Pill at Mayfair Theater. The anti-Muslim demonstration (organized by the Soldiers of Odin, an organization with documented Neo-Nazi ties) on […]
Let us unite and hold high the red banner on May Day 2016 in Toronto!
We are calling on all comrades and other like-minded anti-capitalists to join our red contingent for this year’s May Day march. May Day was born out of militant working-class struggle. While there are many important issues facing the working class (with some issues affecting certain sections more than others) and we are all waging various […]
Toronto Anti-Fascists Respond to JDL Hosting PEGIDA-UK
Fascism makes strange bedfellows. On Thursday, March 10th 2016, the fascist Jewish Defense League hosted Paul Weston of the white supremacist, anti-immigrant PEGIDA-UK and Islamophobic Danish hatemonger Lars Hedegaard at the Toronto Zionist Centre at 788 Marlee Avenue for a speaking event called “The Threat of Radical Islamic Immigration and the Erosion of our Freedoms”. […]
Toronto: Boycott the Elections Forum
Saturday, September 12th at 2pm Ontario Institute for Studies in Education 252 Bloor Street West, Room 5280 Toronto –> Facebook event. Join us on Saturday, September 12th as the Revolutionary Student Movement prepares to launch its boycott campaign against the Canadian federal election. This event functions primarily as an open forum for discussing the campaign, […]
How Pan-Am Has Infiltrated the University of Toronto Campus
The Pan Am Games, being the latest weapon of the ruling class in their war against the poor, have sought alliances and support bases amongst broad sections of the middle-class and other privileged strata. It is thus unsurprising that the Pan Am Games have made concerted (and in many ways, successful) efforts at extending their […]
Red Contingents at May Day 2015
This year again, the Revolutionary Communist Party called for the formation of “colourful red contingents” for International Workers Day. In a statement titled “The World Needs Socialism! Socialism Requires Revolution! The Revolution Needs Us!”, the PCR-RCP called for waving “the proletarian flag that symbolizes our strength, our courage, and the victories that soon will be […]
Proletarian Feminists Organize in Toronto
The Proletarian Feminist Front Toronto launched a monthly discussion series based in Toronto’s St James Town and Regent Park areas on January 31. This area has been and is still undergoing massive devastation from “revitalization” efforts to clean up the area. Proletarian people have been pushed onto the streets, relevant programming is disappearing, and housing […]
Harm Reduction Workers Organize in Toronto
PRAC Toronto and the Partisan would like to extend a message of solidarity to the newly formed Toronto Harm Reduction Workers Union (THRWU), Local 610 of the Industrial Workers of the World. On Tuesday, November 11, THRWU officially went public in two workplaces—South Riverdale and Central Toronto Community Health Centres—with plans to roll out in […]
PRAC Toronto Calls for a Boycott
At the beginning of the election, with Rob Ford embroiled in scandal, it appeared as though the bourgeoisie had picked Olivia Chow as their mayoral candidate. An article in The Globe and Mail on May 23, entitled “The NDPer in Pinstripes?”, described the concentrated efforts to appeal to Bay Street and Yorkville elite. Big capitalists such Margaret […]