Socialist Project

05/07/2026

It was almost thirty years ago when the Mike Harris government started privatizing long-term care and home care. The 1995 budgets (federal and provincial) were the most regressive in Canadian history to that time.

What started as private “mom-and-pop shops” were bought up or pushed out as the for-profit chains moved in. Today, our health care landscape is dominated by large chain for-profit long-term and home care companies. Profits came from de-unionizing the workforce in home care and reducing wages and working conditions in both sectors. Also — and this is critical for people using those services — from reducing the number of care workers and thus the amount of care.

(May 5, 2026) When I think about the lessons of the last thirty years of privatization, and the people who have suffered as a result, I feel more resolute

05/07/2026

What happens when a DSA politician takes charge of the largest city in the United States? Zohran Mamdani’s early record is filled with successes, but also evidence of the contradictions between socialist politics and governing the capitalist state.

05/06/2026

Toronto organizers just formed a tenant union across the city.

Saima Desai reports from the launch of the Toronto Tenant Union, as they organize to tilt the scales of housing power.

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05/06/2026

Yakov Kronrod played a major role in debates about how to reform the Soviet economy during the 1960s. His vision of a genuinely democratic economic system was too radical for Soviet leaders to accept because it threatened their authority.

05/05/2026

Canada’s FIFA exclusion of Palestinians and Iranians reveals a lethal double standard

At an important meeting to kick off the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Vancouver today, there are notable absences: at least one member of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) and the entire Iranian Football Federation (IFF) delegation.

In the case of the PFA, the president, general secretary, and legal counsel Gonzalo Boye all initially did not receive visas from Canada to attend the April 30 FIFA Congress. PFA vice-president Susan Shalabi was awarded a visa after she applied on a non-Palestinian passport.

Canada says it’s inviting the world for the FIFA World Cup—but it’s acting more like a lapdog of the U.S. by shutting its borders to Palestinians and Iranians

05/05/2026

May 23, EDUCATION UNDER SIEGE: New Strategies Against Austerity

EDUCATION UNDER SIEGE: New Strategies Against Austerity – Friends House, Sat 23 May 2026 - Ontario’s higher education sector is at a breaking point. From the systematic marketization of colleges and universities to the sustained attack on labour rights, the provincial government’s strategy is ...

05/05/2026

Illegal Siege, Brutal Abuse: Our Detention and Assault at the Hands of Israeli Prison Guards

Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall covered last year’s flotilla for Drop Site, before it was illegally boarded in international waters, all participants were abducted by Israeli forces, and Noa was abused in Israeli detention. On board the Conscience, she met German journalist Anna Liedtke. Liedtke, too, was abducted by Israeli forces and r***d by female guards during her time in Israeli custody, abuse she first made public in December 2025 via the women’s organization ZORA.

Two Gaza flotilla members describe their abduction and abuse by Israel last fall.

05/04/2026

Chris Hedges Interviews Thiago Avila: How the Flotillas RESIST Genocide and Imperialism

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05/04/2026

"Look at all the stuff that they have achieved with a blockade. Imagine what Cuba could achieve without. Imagine the benefit to the world of a Cuba without a blockade. And that's why it's important to fight against the blockade so that the Cubans can develop themselves because that is what they want."

End the blockade on Cuba (short)

05/04/2026

The Bullet No. 3287:
Breaking the Gaza Blockade
By Macéo and Sama, and Ramiro Giganti

Radionauta, a community, alternative, and grassroots radio station in La Plata, broadcast the testimony of Ramiro Giganti, an Agencia de Noticias RedAcción (ANRed) correspondent who was part of the Argentine delegation that set sail for Gaza last Sunday as part of Global Sumud. The flotilla, composed of 75 boats – a civilian initiative, the largest in history to date – aims to deliver humanitarian aid including food, water, personal hygiene items, medical supplies, school bags, toys, nappies, and infant formula, among other items, to bolster hospital capacity and support Palestinian communities facing an acute humanitarian crisis resulting from the genocide and illegal blockade perpetrated by the State of Israel.

In the night of 29-30 April, as was foreseen by Ramiro Giganti, Israeli forces illegally detained some twenty boats of the flotilla and arrested nearly 200 activists – trade-unionists, health workers, solidarity activists, elected representatives. They rendered the boats unusable. Demonstrations i...

05/03/2026

Real climate action requires near-term mandates with teeth

Canada, simply put, is not on the trajectory on which we need to be. And with oil and gas production on the rise and the new LNG Canada plant firing up in 2025, there is no reason to believe we are on the cusp of turning the tide in this race to protect the people and places we love. (Thankfully, other countries are acting with considerably more gusto than we are.)

Why Prime Minister Carney is wrong to shun “prohibitions”