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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides at a recent news conference. Credit: Government of Alberta

    Alberta gov’t seeks to ban books to distract from scandals

    Originally published: rabble.ca on May 28, 2025 by David J. Climenhaga (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted May 31, 2025)

    Facing an ongoing corruption scandal and rising measles cases, clearly the Alberta government is desperate for a distraction.

  • Plastic waste on a beach. Credit: Bo Eide / Flickr

    Plastics treaty failure shows need to curtail oil industry

    Editor

    Oil companies have long lied about the impacts of burning their fuels. They also lie about the plastic they produce. The treaty talks were no exception.

  • Donald Trump, an entertainer paid for by the military industrial complex. Credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr Credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr

    Politics – the entertainment division of the military industrial complex

    Originally published: rabble.ca on November 14, 2024 by Ole Hendrickson (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Nov 25, 2024)

    If politics is entertainment, we should take notice of who’s paying for the show.

  • A photo of CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn. (Photo: CUPE)

    Defend Fred Hahn

    Originally published: rabble.ca on August 22, 2024 by Judy Rebick (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Aug 27, 2024)

    Fred Hahn has been a steadfast and effective labour leader. Independent Jewish Voices and others are calling for solidarity and support for Fred.

  • A person vaping with an e-cigarette.

    Tobacco companies are at it again

    Originally published: rabble.ca on July 2, 2024 by Ellen Gould (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Jul 04, 2024)

    Canadian tobacco companies are actively trying to capture a new generation of life-long, nicotine-addicted customers.

  • OFL president Laura Walton speaks at a rally in support of UofT students on Monday, May 27. Credit: OFL / X Credit: OFL / X

    Ontario Federation of Labour rallies with students at UofT encampment

    Originally published: rabble.ca on May 27., 2024 by Nick Seebruch (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted May 29, 2024)

    As attacks kill yet more civilians in Rafah, students at their allies at UofT say they will not stop pressuring the university to divest from Israel.

  • Manitoba premier-elect Wab Kinew with his family on election night on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. Credit: Wab Kinew / X

    Wab Kinew becomes first First Nations premier in Canadian history

    Originally published: rabble.ca on October 4, 2023 by Nick Seebruch (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Oct 06, 2023)

    For the first time in Canada’s history, one of its provinces has a First Nations person as its premier.

  • Front of Halifax Provincial Court. (Credit: Curtis Cronn / Flickr)

    Small claims court victory sends clear message: Sex work is real work

    Originally published: rabble.ca on July 24, 2023 by Natasha Darling (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Jul 26, 2023)

    A court has ruled on the enforceability of contracts between sex workers and their clients in a precedent-setting case.

  • A protest for Trans rights. (Photo: Karollyne Hubert / Unsplash / rabble.ca)

    My feminism is Trans inclusive

    Originally published: rabble.ca on March 31, 2023 by Judy Rebick (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Apr 04, 2023)

    Attacks against Trans women are attacks against the women’s movement and the fight for better equality and justice.

  • People at a crowded concert. Credit: CHUTTERSNAP / Unsplash

    Should we be worried about eight billion people?

    Originally published: rabble.ca on November 30, 2022 by David Suzuki (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Dec 02, 2022)

    Our immediate crisis is caused by a system that encourages endless growth, exploitation, waste and energy use.

  • At a press conference on Monday, Laura Walton, president of OSBCU, told her members: “You showed Ontario that you can stand up to a bully, look him in the eye and tell him ‘hell no, not today.’”

    Ford blinks in face of union solidarity; will repeal Bill 28

    Originally published: rabble.ca on November 7, 2022 by Nick Seebruch (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Nov 09, 2022)

    Perhaps Ontario Premier Doug Ford wasn’t expecting the backlash he received when he enacted Bill 28 on Thursday last week.

  • Natasha Darling is a pseudonym to protect the author’s true identity from the stigma and harm associated with her sex work. Darling is a stripper and community organiser based in Toronto.

    Sex work: a contemporary identity rooted in labour

    Originally published: rabble.ca on September 9, 2022 by Natasha Darling (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Sep 15, 2022)

    Following Labour Day, this column explores the origin of the phrase sex work and how sex workers are an important part of the labour movement.

  • Colourful protest sign that says "Bans off our bodies" Credit: SHYCITYNikon / flickr

    Connecting the dots between Roe v. Wade, sex workers and bodily autonomy

    Originally published: rabble.ca on June 3, 2022 by Natasha Darling (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2022)

    The same people who criminalize sex work, criminalize other “serious offences” against sexual norms such as medical treatment for trans people and access to abortion.

  • ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

    The problem with ‘Don’t Say Gay’: Children aren’t asking about sex. They’re asking about love.

    Originally published: rabble.ca on April 1, 2022 by Stephen Wentzell (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2022)

    Queer advocates worry how the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, set to go into effect in Florida, could impact education on gender diversity and sexual orientation of young Canadians.

  • What’s needed to manage the pandemic sustainably is clear and doable — N95s and rapid tests for all, vaccines for the world, ventilation and filtration upgrades in shared indoor air, and supports for workers and people isolating.

    Canada: The Left is nowhere on COVID. And that’s a big problem

    Originally published: rabble.ca on February 4, 2022 by Judy Rebick and Corvin Russell (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Feb 08, 2022)

    They have failed to step into the current political climate and counter far-right protests, and get workers the income, housing and other social support they need.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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