May Day 2021 marks a year of unprecedented attacks on the health and well-being of working people around the world, first by the coronavirus pandemic and the greedy pharmaceutical companies, and other corporations who saw the health crisis as an opportunity to make enormous profits.
The drive by US imperialism to defend its military and economic global domination, which is being challenged by China’s rapid economic growth and political influence is the real reason for the sharpening vilification of China by US politicians and most Canadian politicians, increasingly driven by the corporate mass media.
Far from transformative, Monday’s federal budget was yet another long list of big gifts to Big Business in Canada, along with vast sums for NATO, NORAD, fighter jets and warships, ensuring that the working class will pay for a profitable recovery for corporations and the wealthy, and Parliament’s new foreign policy of war and regime change.
Cuba has been the shining light of socialism, humanism, peace and national liberation in the Americas for more than six decades, and it has become the glowing light of socialism for working people around the world for the last 30 years.
The COVID-19 pandemic will not disappear from the world at once. Moreover, the social and environmental conditions created by capitalism show us that humanity will be facing such epidemics again, though in other ways.
The solution is to bring Air Canada back under public ownership – and democratic control.
Tories may not like it, but Bethune remains one of the most admired Canadians both at home and internationally because of his heroic embrace of all of humanity.
If variants proliferate unchecked, there will be many more deaths over a period of years, not months.
COVID-19 has stripped away the veneer of capitalism, leaving bare the stark inequalities based on gender, racialization and ability. According to the United Nations, women are the majority of workers in sectors of the economy most severely impacted by the pandemic shutdowns.
La COVID-19 a retiré au capitalisme son lustre, dévoilant les fortes inégalités basées sur le genre, la racialisation et la capacité