No. 8
May 1, 2025
Essays by Hardial Bains
• History
Photo Review
Uphold the Dignity of Labour and the
Fighting
Unity of Workers of All Lands!
Workers' Centre, Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
On the occasion
of May Day 2025, we salute the working people of all
lands fighting for their rightful claims on society to be
recognized
and for peace, freedom and democracy.
Across Canada and in Quebec, workers are engaged in modern industrial production and contribute all the wealth society depends on to look after the well-being of all. They are fighting for the rights of all to be provided with a guarantee. In the wake of the 45th general election, they face enormous pressure to unite with the oligarchs and wage only defensive battles without having a program of its own. We, proud communist workers the Canadian and Quebec working class and people have given rise to, have taken up the aim of ensuring that the working class has its own program for opening the path for the progress of society and we call on you to join us.
Today, as we celebrate the day of international working class solidarity, we set an agenda to advance the program of the workers to solve the problems facing society and open a path for its progress.
We think this is vital for the cause of the working class. We are evermore convinced that the only way out of the present situation is for the working class to assume the role of leading society. We call on our class and all comrades and friends of the Party to wage the struggle on May Day with this aim in the forefront.
The federal election did nothing to lift the weight from the backs of the working people of the deepening crisis of capitalism and the demand of the capitalists that the only matter of concern for society is their pursuit of maximum profits. This demand is being fully implemented not only by the federal government but also the governments of Quebec and Ontario and provinces already working in cahoots with the Prime Minister.
At a time when the workers are facing massive economic insecurity, unemployment and underemployment and downward pressure on their wages and working conditions, governments continue to cut back and privatize social programs, making life even more difficult for the people.
Along
with all the talk about outwitting Donald Trump and making the
Canadian
economy the fastest growing of all G7 countries, the ruling
class does
its utmost to impose defeatism and passivity in the face of the
situation, a form of nihilism that nothing can be done about the
crisis
except to
accept it and willingly take up its burden.
The inability of the ruling class and its apologists to deal with any of the problems facing society has been turned by the capitalist class into proof-positive that there is no alternative but to do whatever the capitalists and their representatives say.
Rule through police powers has become the new normal, used to criminalize and marginalize all those fighting for the rights of all and propagate the absurdity that their voices are not legitimate and they are not worthy members of the polity. All of this is to cover up that they have no solution to the crises of their own making.
However, the workers are becoming increasingly conscious of those who have become apologists for the onslaught of capitalism and their claim that for the workers "there is no alternative."
The workers have long since rejected the "new world order" of the ruling class of which the contradictions with the Trump administration in the U.S. is the latest chapter. Their "world order" is one in which there is a rise in the antagonisms between the big powers which are each fighting for their own interests, building and rebuilding trading blocs, such as the fully discredited Canada U.S. Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) which Trump has thrown out the window. Workers have rejected the path of the big powers working for their own hegemony under the command of the U.S. which is striving to become the world's "indispensable nation." It does this at the expense of even its own partners which it has betrayed time and time again.
The
Canadian and Quebec working class and people hail from virtually
every
country in the world. They see the tragedies that have emerged
as the
United Nations Security Council acts not as an instrument for
the
resolution of conflicts through peaceful methods, but as an
instrument
of the
so-called rules-based international order imposed by the U.S.
with the
support of the countries which are members of NATO and the
Genocide 7
(G7). Today these countries, which includes Canada, commit and
support
the genocide of the people in Gaza and the internecine civil
wars
instigated by the U.S.
and paramilitary groups paid for by narrow private interests,
while the
people's resistance struggles are denigrated and they are
accused of
terrorism.
Under current arrangements, they are without the power to act within the structures established to safeguard international rule of law now deprive the peoples of the world of their right to be by equating the peoples and their striving for peace, freedom and democracy with nation-states which no longer defend their peoples.
In this country, all over again the workers and Indigenous Peoples are being told that to uphold the national interest their role is to contribute to the cause of making the monopolies and corporations in Canada more competitive. They are told to accept the rule of the rich and agree to restructuring the state and pay-the-rich schemes – or suffer the consequences.
This is ridiculous. The workers and Indigenous Peoples are already suffering the consequences of three decades of the neo-liberal anti-social offensive. They don't need condescending saviours telling them that the next round will be different. The difficulties can only become worse and linger should the workers not uphold the dignity of labour and fight for the rights of all. It is their resistance struggles which are opening a way forward, both in Canada and abroad. This resistance deserves the militant support of the working class and people of this country.
There Is an Alternative!
Viewing all these developments in the world, the most important factor that must be recognized on May Day is the increasing awareness of the working class that the role of leadership in society has become its own responsibility. It is only the working class that can open the path to social progress. Throughout the world, the working class and people are rising to face the situation by directly contesting the claim of the rulers that there is no alternative to exploitation, immiseration and war.
The Workers' Centre of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) calls on Party members and all friends of the Party to show through deeds that there is an alternative and it is in the hands of the working class.
The alternative is for the working class to have its own program and to extend the voice of the working class throughout society and to strengthen its organization. In this regard, writing for and distributing the Party Press and other media dedicated to the cause of the working class plays an important role in defeating attempts to overwhelm people by spread disinformation which gives rise to anxiety, confusion and feelings of hopelessness.
In the face of the dictate of the ruling circles to take the society down a very dangerous path in which the only claims which are recognized are those of the speculators and money lenders; in the face of all the absurdities and pious wishes and self-righteous explanations that the society cannot accept the claims of the workers on society for a living consistent with the standards of living made possible by the present level of development of its productive forces; in the face of war preparations and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, let the working class constitute the nation by pursuing its own agenda and vesting the sovereign decision-making power in the people.
Communist workers and youth must organize themselves to take their own program to all sections of society. They must take up the discussion of political affairs and work out the arguments which organize the people to empower themselves so that they can change the direction of the economy. This can be done by defending the guiding principle that the society must provide for all, which is also the principle on which social programs must be based.
A Red Salute to all fighting contingents of the working class in Canada and Quebec and to the fighting peoples the world over!
Long Live the Resistance to Genocide and War!
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of all Lands, Unite!
Essays by Hardial Bains
Two Worlds in Combat
Hardial Bains speaking at May Day
meeting in Toronto, May 1, 1994.
(Originally published by TML Daily, May 1, 1996.)
There are two worlds in combat today. One is the world of the bourgeoisie, counter-revolution, retrogression and the anti-social offensive. This world of reaction and war tramples underfoot the right of the peoples of the world to chose their own system. There is another world, the world of the working class and all progressive humanity, the world of revolution and the opening of the door for the progress of society. This is the world of pro-social programs, the world of unity and struggle of the peoples of all lands.
While the world of the bourgeoisie is decaying, the world of the working class has to be created afresh, anew. The world of the working class is not ready-made nor will it emerge on the basis of reforming the old world. On the contrary, it is a world that must be consciously created on the basis of the most advanced and revolutionary forces engendered within the modern conditions. May Day must remind all the progressive forces to double and triple their efforts to create the new world.
The old world is relying on everything anachronistic in order to hold itself together. In the sphere of the economy, it has the vain hope that the making of maximum capitalist profit within an institutionalized global system, will be the basis of its continued prosperity. In the political sphere, it has the vain hope that its unrepresentative democracy, in the final analysis, will guarantee that political power remains in its own hands. In the sphere of relations between peoples, it hopes that the destruction of the very idea of the independence and sovereignty of nations will guarantee its eternal worldwide domination.
The world of the working class, the new world, is relying on modern definitions. It is based on dealing with the outstanding problems of each major sphere of human endeavour. The working class is called on to organize the economy with the aim of guaranteeing a livelihood to all as a human right on the basis of the most advanced techniques and the continuous raising of standards of living.
In the sphere of politics, the working class will establish a system of modern democracy in which the representatives are subordinate to the people, and the people directly participate in the selection and election of candidates, and in governance. The working class, in the sphere of relations between peoples, will uphold as a modern principle that all peoples have the right to chart their own course.
May Day presents all progressive humanity with a challenge. It is the challenge to reject everything old and decadent by waging a merciless struggle against it, while creating the new on the basis of the modern working class and on the most advanced thinking and theory coming out of the contemporary conditions. These are exciting times for all those who wish to create the new world. The basic ingredients for this new world are already in existence. The working class has its own experience of revolution and socialism of well over one hundred and fifty years, especially during the twentieth century. The ingredients of this experience are all too precious to be frittered away. The time is now to use these ingredients anew and add fresh ones for the destruction of the old and the building of the New.
Let everyone take their place in this historic combat by leaving the old behind!
History
"Social
phenomena are sometimes like the harnessed waters of a
mighty river
kept in check by the dam of history. When the
dam bursts
suddenly, it is not history that crumbles into oblivion. No. To
the
contrary, every drop of that mighty flow resulting from the
radical
rupture nurtures the soil
from which history bursts forth.... the outcome depends on how
far the
people see and grasp the necessity for change, the necessity to
bring
about the deep-going transformations
demanded by history."
(Extracts from the essay titled History, published in the book Communism, 1989-1991, Hardial Bains, Ideological Studies Centre, 1991)
It is difficult for us to accept the commonly used definition of history, namely that everything which is past is history. The word "history" is actually used as a synonym for "past." Young people have even coined the colloquial expression: "He (or she) is history," to mean that a person or an event is finished, no longer an issue for us.
One of the features of history
is that it is past, but this is not
the most important one. The most important one is that history
exists.
It prevails, it spreads its wings, and it takes over. History is
the
kind of irresistible force which does not leave anything alone.
No
human consciousness is
possible without history, and no human history is possible
without
human action. This much is very clear.
[...]
It is generally known that amongst the primitive people, the extent of discussion and daily exchange was extremely limited, while, at the present time, the possibilities are virtually unlimited. In spite of this, the actual discussion and exchange are still limited, because many things in society and in the lives of people remain spontaneous and in many ways out of control. Not only are they out of control, but we have an increasing consciousness of this fact. We perceive history as something out of control. It is there, but somehow it is beyond us and cannot be touched.
[...] The present generation has to reckon with what has gone into history and what has not. It is not just a question of memory, but also of determining what exists and what does not. In actual fact, another chapter has been added to what is now history in the conventional sense.
History, as it is usually conceived, presents in its finished form a panorama of what has taken place. There may be disputes about this or that part, the role of this or that event, or the role of the individual in history. History in this instance is something like an after-thought, a creation in the mind through the study of things and events past, history as a benign phenomenon separate and apart from our lives. Such history appears as totally inconsequential to the living. But is this really the case? Are we so detached from history that it has no influence on us whatsoever? Is history like the space and time within which the earth moves? Or is it something more?
If history had no influence whatsoever, then we would not have known about it; but it is just as impossible to conceive of human life without human history as it is to imagine the earth without its own history or matter without its forms and its motion. Space and time constitute the conditions in which forms of matter come into being and pass away. Is there an equivalent of this in social life?
[...] all of human development, the present and the past, has relevance to the future. History is one continuum with breaks, making it possible to perceive that it is not a void, but full of life. History, in fact, is in dialectical relationship with all that is, speaking in the social sense, because what is is becoming what has been, and what has been has become the soil on which what is is to flourish.
The notion of history comes into being at a definite stage in the development of human civilization, the stage when human beings begin to develop productive forces through interaction with nature and between themselves. The law of social development, the contradiction inherent to human living, begins to assert itself. The increase in population and the depletion of resources, besides other factors, emerge as the objective contradiction which either must be resolved in favour of human society or else human life itself will come to an end. The rise of agriculture and animal husbandry is the first human act which breaks the spell of the elements of nature. It gives human beings not only the consciousness, but also the confidence that the condition for human living can be created by conscious planning, without leaving it to chance. Thus came the prelude, the first step towards the creation of human history.
The notion of history during its prelude which is given is self-serving, as it is not cognizant of the profound role of the objective laws to which human actions had given birth, and for this reason it is also negligent of what nature really had in store for human life in the objective sense during this entire period. Such a notion could only lead to enslavement, a new kind alongside the old. The old enslavement was to nature, and the new one is of one individual to another, beginning with chattel slavery and proceeding to the modern kind, where enslavement has assumed the most grotesque form — not only wage-slavery, but also bondage to the financial institutions which, in the present period, hold the entire world in their grasp.
Human action had to go through several millennia before the prelude itself was to come under question. The notion given of history during the prelude finds its expression in the class society in the self-interest of the dominant classes. History itself is turned into the slave, meaning that the slave-owners shut their eyes to the great possibilities which history had created for human development. They rejected these opportunities, including history, thus condemning everyone to different forms of slavery and to millennia of groping in the dark. This led to the present conflict between the exploiters and the exploited, between the prelude and history itself.
We have come so far in development that we have now a class of people whose self-interest in emancipation means the emancipation of all humankind. The antithesis to those who had shut their eyes and did not take advantage of history is now on the verge of realization. The eyes are about to open wide. Some have already opened, and others will follow suit. History will come into being. When the working class demands the end of wage-slavery and the end of the system based on exploitation of persons by persons, who will not be affected by it? Besides the working class, there are also the men and women of enlightenment, those who proceed in their work not from prejudice and self-interest but from the interest of verifiable facts and the advancement of society. What will now stop the advent of human history?
The emergence of such a class and stratum of individuals signals the beginning of the end of the prelude to history. This prelude, this pre-history, besides other things, involves this class and this stratum in open clashes with the unknown, with that which hitherto has been considered as hidden or taboo, as the sole preserve of the nobility and of the ruling caste. They begin to present themselves as those who must create the new society. This prelude to history becomes the era of the greatest assault against any kind of obscurantism, whether clerical or other, because both the class of people who are workers and the stratum of those who seek enlightenment cannot live with the demand of the past that they must accept their condition as preordained.
The worker, the servant of the one who gives the job, and the enlightened, the servant of the one who pays, cannot accept this condition because of their nature and the essence of their work and profession in the objective sense. This gives rise to consciousness and to clashes between what they want to be and what condition they are placed in. Thus arise the strain and the tension where the prelude to history is now transformed into history itself. What comes before strives to become the after. The prelude to history becomes history.
But this transformation is not spontaneous and objective alone. There is a pressure that the prelude to history must remain as such. If this were merely a matter of someone's taste and did not affect anyone's life, it would be a different matter, but such a pressure on the prelude means that all the problems must remain unsolved, whether in economy, politics or culture or on the question of peace and progress of the peoples of all countries.
There is also an opposite pressure, the vital condition of all the oppressed and exploited, who want the prelude to become history itself. The result is the great conflict of our times. This clash between the two interests is not benign, and it must be resolved.
It is not uncommon for history to be presented not merely as a thing of the past, but also in a completely static and lifeless form. Nothing can be learned from such a pedantic rendering of history, nor yet can such history have any vital role. The aim of this pedantic rendering is to obstruct the prelude to history from becoming history. It does not set history within the change, development and motion of real life, and it ensures that history does not appear as an all-sided vital force in any period. On the contrary, its role is to eliminate the vital force and make society regress. It wants to prolong the period of banality and every form of degeneration. It finds its freedom in this act, an act which is revolting to many but which is, all the same, also the condition for progress.
This pedantic rendering of history has today condemned the past and has theorized and moralized that, because of "human nature," no progress has been made in the past and no progress will be made at the present time in so far as the existence of the basic problems of society is concerned. According to this notion, the prelude to history, the exploitation of persons by persons, will always remain. This runs counter to actual facts, which testify that there is progress, but that there is also retrogression.
This progress has been so dramatic in every field, from the economy to culture, that the prelude to history is more and more turning into history, a history created by work and serving the need of this and the coming era.
But there is a retrogression as well, where all the progress in different fields has been turned into its opposite. The theory of evolution is confronted with the medievalist theory of creationism.
[...] Economic revival today has meaning only on the front of technique, not in the perfection of relations between people. The drive to end the exploitation of persons by persons faces all kinds of apologists who consider the reversion to spontaneity, under the supervision of technical experts, to be an advance over central planning carried out by the working people themselves.
We have only to look at this world which is so pregnant with change, while at the same time, the integuments of the status quo are becoming ever so rigid and inflexible. Two world wars and so many clashes of varying intensity point to the character of our era, where history is knocking at the door, demanding the end of the prelude.
There is not a single problem in this world which we do not recognize in one form or another, from the acute problems of the economy and the environment to problems at home or the danger of another world war. But what is being done quite matter-of-factly about them is that they are still being looked at only according to the interests of those who constitute the ruling class. In the case of Canada and many other countries, the capitalist class constitutes the ruling class. Those constituting the governments refuse to be objective about the problems, and instead of finding their solution, they are perpetuating them.
Cynicism and indifference are promoted, and the greatest pressure is exerted on people that they must shun their civic responsibility and keep away from politics and politicians. Many do not even want to speak about the problems, because they are afraid that, if they did so, they would be condemned and persecuted. But this does not mean that the problems somehow disappear. On the contrary, they keep becoming acute and the dangers increase.
History is calling for their solution. The moment they are solved, they pass into history, and history begins.
[...] if the prelude to history is being prolonged, this is not the end of history. The capitalist system does not have the power to prolong the prelude into eternity, because capitalism has contradictions which are tearing it apart. These contradictions cannot remain without resolution indefinitely. The demand of the working people for economic well-being and security, for peace and the protection of the environment, and for progress in every field cannot be ignored forever. Most importantly, the demand to end all exploitation of persons by persons, the root-cause of all other problems, can no longer be ignored.
As long as such contradictions exist there will be attempts to resolve them, and when the contradictions are resolved, the prelude to history will turn around and declare, I AM HISTORY.
Such declarations have already been made before in this century, but with each such declaration, which gives a glimpse of history, the form and content of this history becomes clearer and better. It has become all the more clear, now that communism is requiring the invocation of the highest of techniques and the most developed social relations between people, so that not a trace of backwardness remains. History is demanding that the aim of all production must be the satisfaction of the individual and collective interests and their reconciliation with the general interest of society. An individual's desires have to be satisfied. When individuals work together as a collective, the individual desires cannot be satisfied without satisfying the interest of the collective. An individual worker cannot satisfy his desires without the entire collective fighting for them, and the individual and collective interest cannot override the general interest of society without risking serious conflicts.
History is putting everything on the table for solution. This includes the problems of the economy, politics and culture, of peace and the environment. Everything is clear and concise, but it is within this situation that a setback has come. The mere fact that [there is] so much damage is no reason to hesitate to find solutions to real problems. But there is hesitation. This hesitation is not spontaneous or aimless either. It has an aim, the aim of prolonging the prelude, of perpetuating all the problems. Those who are in the dominant position can pursue no other path, but this does not and cannot stop the billions in the world who are the victims of this prelude. Their struggles are like ocean waves pounding the shores of the old world, and with each and every wave the message becomes ever more clear: The prelude must come to an end.
For a while, it looked as if the prelude had come to an end. This was the period after the Second World War. People all over the world, especially in Europe and Asia, celebrated the victory over fascism on May 9, 1945. By 1953, several other countries had carried out people's revolutions, and along with the Soviet Union [...] the prelude to history had come to an end in this part of the world. A conscious plan to deal with problems became the watchword.
[...] The U.S. and its allies were afraid that if the prelude actually did come to an end, it would have repercussions in the U.S. and other countries as well. The capitalists and those whose interests lay in domination and exploitation did not want the prelude to end. They gave birth to the Cold War, the war between those who wanted to end the prelude, headed by the Soviet Union, the socialist countries and people's democracies, and those who wanted to prolong it, headed by the Anglo-American alliance. Within a short space of time, there arose preachers who presented a completely distorted picture of the world in order to ensure that the prelude does not come to an end. [...]
[...] In the name of democracy, everything socialistic has come under fire [...] socialism again began to be equated with dictatorial rule and fascism. The spectre of communism was brought back. Far from being the dawn of history, it became another stage in the prelude, before the advent of history. Another dark cloud has cast its shadow over the world, postponing the dawn, but the dawn has not disappeared. There is no turning back.
These victors of the prelude have already come under scrutiny. The struggle for history has not come to an end. In spite of the setbacks, the struggle for socialism and democracy that is, for history versus "ideological and political pluralism" and "free market economy,",] the extension of the prelude, has begun again in earnest. This is the epochal struggle between the prelude and its antithesis, history. At this stage, world capitalism, the forces favouring the prelude, hold the advantages, while world socialism as a system does not exist. The forces favouring history are in retreat. World capitalism gives the impression that it can guarantee prosperity and real democracy, but therein lies its weakness. The claims which are made are not verifiable by facts, and as time passes, these claims ring ever more hollow.
In any event, the contest between the two, prelude and history, has entered a new phase.
The question arises: Is this the end of history? As long as the struggle between the prelude and history remain, there can be no end of history. There is a suggestion that the end of the Cold War heralded the final victory of capitalism and that all the world's problems are now resolved. This is tantamount to saying that historical development has come to an end. But such a suggestion is based on false premises. The present developments [...] do not prove, as it is being claimed, that capitalism has self-corrective powers, that it can overcome its ills in the course of its development. Even if this were the case, it would still not spell the end of history. It would mark the beginning of the "self-corrective" phase of capitalism, a historical "turning point".
History may look as if it is turning back, but this is not quite true. There is retrogression, but in fact history is going through pre-history to its complete affirmation.
The apparent turning back to the original position is the springboard for even deeper and broader changes, a revolution which will end capitalism and create a new society. The bourgeoisie has not raised the spectre of communism for nothing. It wants to avert the big bang: the transition from the helplessness and desperation of working people in the face of history to the working people not only humanizing, but actually creating history as the first step towards the total transformation of the human animal into a human being. The seeds for such a transition have been sown all over the world. The prelude is bound to give way to history.
Photo Review
May Day 2024 – 2025
TML Supplement is publishing on the occasion of May Day 2025 a photo review highlighting some of the many struggles of the working people of Canada and Quebec since May Day 2024.
Montreal workers march on
May Day 2024
Action for Status for All, Niagara,
May 16, 2024
Injured Workers' Day,
June 1, 2024 in Toronto (top) and London
"Hands Off Our Pensions"
rally in Calgary, June 9, 2024 opposes Alberta government's plan
to
take the province out of the CPP.
London picket in July
2024 during Ontario Liquor Control Board workers' strike.
Pickets
in support of railway workers in Halifax, Edmonton and
Hornepayne (top
to bottom)
August 27-29, 2024 after they were forced into
binding
arbitration.
Workers in Hamilton and
Prince George participate in Labour Day marches, September 2,
2024
Brampton, Ontario rally
in defence
of rights of international students and migrant workers,
September
8, 2024
Demonstration for Status for
All,
Toronto, September 15, 2025
Health care workers demonstrate
outside Quebec National Assembly, September 10, 2024
Rally in support of
education workers in Fort McMurray (top) and Edmonton after they
were
blocked
from
striking, September 21, 2024
Alberta Nurses picket for safe
conditions
of work, Rocky Mountain House, September 26, 2024
Contingent in demonstration in Montreal September 27, 2025,
denounced mining industry's
destruction of the environment
Orange
Shirt Day actions across the country stood in support of the
Indigenous
Peoples. Photos from (top to bottom) Montreal, Winnipeg and Port
Alberni
Strikes
and other actions by hotel workers in Canada and the U.S. in
September
and October 2024
defend their rights at work. Photos from
Toronto (top)
and Vancouver.
HandyDART workers
strike,
Vancouver, October 3, 2024
Quebec Amazon workers hold
information picket to back their demands in negotiating a
contract
with
Amazon, October 21, 2024
Education workers lead day of
political protest against the Alberta government's blocking of
their
proceeding with legal strike action, October 24, 2025
Action in Montreal November 2, 2024
for status for all.
Vancouver dockworkers picket during
lockout, November 11, 2024
Postal workers strike
nationwide from November 15 to December 17, before being forced
back to
work. Photos (top to bottom) St. John's, Montreal, Ottawa,
Sudbury,
Scarborough, Hamilton, Red Deer,
Prince George and
Yellowknife.
Naujawan Support Network
marks 100 days of their Morcha in Brampton, Ontario in support
of
rights of
international students, December 7, 2024
Demonstration in
Montreal, December 8, 2024,
against the privatization of Hydro-Quebec
Actions
by injured workers' organizations for right to full
compensation,
December 9, 2024 in
Toronto (top) and Windsor.
International Migrants' Day actions
in Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec (top) and in Toronto,
December
18, 2024
Migrant rights townhall,
Brampton, Ontario, January 19, 2025
Demonstration against privatization
of health care, Peterborough, Ontario, January 30, 2025
Press conference February 4, 2025, denounces closing of Amazon's
Quebec warehouses
Demonstration in Laval against Amazon
closing its Quebec warehouses, February 5, 2025
Workers join with Indigenous Peoples across
the country in Women's Memorial Marches
February 14, 2025, demanding an end to the violence against
Indigenous women and girls.
Photos from Vancouver and Toronto.
March denouncing Amazon's
closing of Quebec warehouses, February 15, 2025
Quebec child care workers' strike,
February 17, 2025
Demonstration against
Quebec anti-labour Bill 89 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec,
February 26, 2025
Rally in Montreal March 14, against
anti-worker Bill 89 attacking workers' right to strike.
Hotel workers at Radisson
Blu in Richmond, celebrate victory in negotiations after 1411
days on
the
picket
line, March 17, 2025.
Demonstration in Montreal, March
22, against privatization of Hydro-Quebec
Striking Lifelabs health
care workers rally in Prince George, April 3, 2025
Daycare workers' rally
in the Outaouais, April 15, 2025
Autoworkers rally
in Windsor, April 26, 2025
Throughout
the year workers have joined demonstrations against the genocide
in
Gaza and in support of the Palestinian resistance and
organized
contingents in 2024 labour day marches.
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