The landlord class has never had it so good, but you wouldn’t know that from Canada's media—whose sob stories about “mom-and-pop landlords” cover up the exploitation of the housing market. We made a @thebreachmedia video to explain the media's formula.

Take your breaks.

To my journo friends, on World Press Freedom day, especially the one's like me working from relative safety in Canada. I am angry at the state of journalism, and I am angry at the forces standing against us, but I am also angry at our lack of collective fight.

I’m increasingly losing faith in our institutions and in electoral politics. I’m increasingly convinced that the best path for justice and equality is outside of these spaces and that we need to deprioritize them.

"In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say." - W.E.B. Dubois It was true then, and it is true now. They have been running this con on us for a very long time, and it's time we stand up and say "enough is enough - if you cannot lead us we will do it ourselves".

Reading this Ed Broadbent speech from 1969 and trying to imagine a mainstream left politician saying something similar today. I can't think of many who would -- or could. jacobin.com/2023/10/canada-s…

People have been asking me lately, "Why Dubois?" Why is W.E.B. Dubois the "father of American Marxism". Wasn't he just a liberal? Didn't he say some random stuff pulled out of context? Carlos Garrido recently wrote a brilliant paper on this, but unfortunately, it's behind a pay-wall. (Academic journals are the worst, and we're not allowed to re-publish it.) So let me explain in brief: Marxism, or Marxism Leninism if you want to be technical about it, is universal. It is the universality of all society moving forward, gives us the laws of development. What Dubois gives us is the particular - Black Reconstruction in America shows us, if not THE primary particular form, then one of the most important particular forms of American class struggle. It gives us an analysis of the color line, of how race and class function, from that Marxist Leninist universal understanding - from the historical materialist viewpoint. It gives us the category of the black proletariat as a class of enslaved workers, and of the second American revolution they waged against the slaveocracy, of the dictatorship of the proletariat that was the Reconstruction South - the freedmen's bureaus backed by the power of the Northern armies. But that isn't all Dubois gives us. He gives us the materialist view of racism; proving that it wasn't racism that created chattel slavery, but instead chattel slavery that created racism, that the relations the white proletariat had with the bosses, and with the black proletariat, all of this functions as an outcome of slavery. There is a lot of talk in Marxism about the steam engine, the spinning jenny, and other technological drivers of industrial capitalism, but underlying every bit of it was chattel slavery feeding the British textile mills with cotton. Without chattel slavery, capitalism would never have lasted a day. Capitalism is, very literally, built on a foundation of THE most brutal forms of oppression, of enslavement of man by man. Every view of American history from the Marxist perspective must begin with Marx and Engels and with Lenin and with Dubois. There is no other way to arrive at a detailed Marxist analysis. Without this, we are lost, and we are able to be manipulated into all sorts of "left" deviations and dogmas. I've even heard "left" anti-immigrant sentiment these days. Dubois cuts through all of it in one go, and gives us a concrete foundation for our work today. Lastly, I have to say: read Dubois yourself. Don't go in bits and pieces taken out of context, as you'll find in the bourgeois academy, that attempt to turn Dubois into something he's not. Just as you read Marx yourself, read Dubois yourself.

End of an era. I got to record the preamble to the time signal when I started at CBC In Saskatchewan. That’s when I really felt like I’d made it: cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/cb…

Wish Taylor Swift could date newspapers.

The enemy is the capitalist class. And if you try to subordinate a working class Party to the literal ruling class, get ready for push back, and get ready to have a talk with the people you tell everyone not to listen to, because you're afraid they'll learn Marxism. >

RT @mikedesouza: I don't follow how some supposed "experts" on the Internet claim that Canada's Online News Act threatens to 'disrupt' the…

All I want for my birthday is $60 million to buy the Toronto Star and hand control over to the workers.

So workers must pay the price for corporate profiteering - the cause of inflation - with higher interest rates, making the affordability crisis worse for them. If the higher rates do as the Bank of Canada wants workers also pay with their jobs. This is class war! #canlab

On this day in 1935, more than 1000 unemployed men from the western provinces boarded freight cars in a mass demonstration known as the "On to Ottawa Trek" to confront Prime Minister R. B. Bennett over the government's Relief Camp efforts. #canlab #cdnpoli

It amazes me how seemingly universal and timeless the story of Maritimers going west is, myself included. If dreading this article and seeing the few pic elicits the response it did in me, I cant wait to get my hands on a copy of @DBCalabrese’s book. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

How would have Marx qualified our current global system? Is it still classical monopoly capitalism? The answer is no. Here's how every single prediction Marx made about the collapse of the capitalist mode of production already occurred, yet the Western left missed it -🧵

Orillia remembers Gordon Lightfoot. 📷 for @reuterspictures

So who's going to write the Lightfoot analysis that takes a critical look at the state of Canadian institutions today and how they actively undermine clandestine expressions of what Canadian nationalism looks like today?

Only reason @psac_afpc members have a better deal today is because they took action and withdrew their labour - hopefully this is a message for everyone who said: "But private sector workers have it worse" that unions works. Solidarity with CRA workers who still on strike ✊️