In the early 1980s, one factory after another was occupied in Ontario’s auto sector in response to planned closures and attacks on benefits. The most notable of these was the 1980 occupation of the Houdaille bumper plant in Oshawa—an event now largely forgotten to labour history. 

Under the guise of fighting Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian capitalist class is ramping up its attacks on workers and the oppressed, laying bare the fiction of “Team Canada”.

The labour movement needs to seize on this momentum and initiate the broadest possible organizing drive.

Taking a struggle to court means taking it out of the hands of the workers and into a channel that’s safe for the bosses. The courts are part of the bourgeois state apparatus, and ultimately serve the interests of employers.

More than 9,000 LCBO workers are on strike in Ontario, after years of attacks, in a fight against overwork and privatization

Communist Revolution visited the picket lines to discuss the strike and the broader struggle against the Ford government

“The Thunder Bay Police Service has turned into a cold-case factory.” 

This condemnation from Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation was made amid what are just the most recent calls to disband the police service.

After years of cuts and attacks, Toronto Transit workers in Amalgamated Transit Union local 113 have overwhelmingly voted to strike. With a turnout of over 75 per cent, 98 per cent voted in favour of strike action!

On Saturday May 25, U of T president Meric Gertler delivered an ultimatum to the pro-Palestine encampment on university grounds: clear out or you will be violently removed by Monday morning. In response, the Ontario Federation of Labour responded, stating “If you decide to move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.” 

Almost 500 Nestlé chocolate factory workers are on strike in Toronto, after rejecting a tentative agreement that would have meant another round of real wage cuts for the workers.