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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Rich

    Uncovering the ‘billionaire coup against democracy’

    Originally published: The Maple on July 6, 2026 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Jul 11, 2026)

    A new report finds that governments worldwide are reshaping labour law to favour corporate power.

  • Photo via Unifor on Twitter.

    Walmart workers have won a first-ever contract in North America

    Originally published: The Maple on June 15, 2026 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Jun 17, 2026)

    Unifor Local 252 in Mississauga announced that about 800 workers now have a collective agreement.

  • Photo by Catherine Cachia.

    National Coalition promises to fight Canada’s war bank

    Originally published: The Maple on May 5, 2026 by Emma Paling (more by The Maple) (Posted May 09, 2026)

    “Security comes from funding homes, food and education. Security does not come from an economy built on war.”

  • Image created by Maple staff using photo via Alen Kajtezovic on Unsplash.

    Canada’s richest 1% nearly as wealthy as poorest 80%

    Originally published: The Maple on March 16, 2026 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Mar 18, 2026)

    Three recent reports provide the gory details about massive and growing wealth inequality in Canada.

  • Photo via The Alberta Teachers’ Association website.

    Alberta forcing teachers back to work is a historic loss

    Originally published: The Maple on November 3, 2025 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Nov 04, 2025)

    Premier Danielle Smith has used the ‘notwithstanding clause’ to shield the strike-breaking bill from a court challenge.

  • Capitalism and Colonialism: The Making of Modern Canada 1890-1960

    Capitalism and Colonialism: How Modern Canada Was Made

    Originally published: The Maple on October 20, 2025 by Adam D. K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Oct 22, 2025)

    An interview with historian Bryan Palmer about his trilogy of books on the continuing legacy of colonialism in Canada.

  • Photo via Mark Hancock on Twitter.

    Air Canada flight attendants have made Labour history

    Originally published: The Maple on August 25, 2025 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Aug 27, 2025)

    After delivering an impressively strong strike mandate vote, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) flight attendants at Air Canada walked off the job on August 16. Within hours, Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu heeded the company’s call for intervention and quickly directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to issue a back-to-work order and send the parties to arbitration. 

  • Photo via Unifor on Twitter.

    Amazon workers in B.C. have won Union certification

    Originally published: The Maple on July 21, 2025 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Jul 22, 2025)

    In many ways, however, the fight has only begun: the union must now secure a contract.

  • Photo via UFCW 1518.

    Uber drivers have unionized for the first time in Canada

    Originally published: The Maple on July 14, 2025 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Jul 15, 2025)

    UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.

  • Mark Carney on Twitter.

    Carney may be better than Poilievre, but serious issues remain

    Originally published: The Maple on March 24, 2025 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Mar 25, 2025)

    A consummate technocrat like Mark Carney, committed in his bones to neoliberalism, can only exacerbate the economic pain.

  • Class Struggle

    The U.S. saw just half of the number of strikes in 2024 as Canada

    Originally published: The Maple on February 25, 2025 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Feb 26, 2025)

    This past week, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University once again released the annual report of its Labor Action Tracker (LAT), which records all strikes and lockouts in the United States.

  • Flags of the U.S., Canada and Mexico fly next to each other in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. August 29, 2018. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo

    Time to think beyond ‘worthless’ free trade agreements

    Originally published: The Maple on Taylor C. Noakes by February 20, 2025 (more by The Maple) (Posted Feb 21, 2025)

    “Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement?”

  • Photo via Justin Trudeau on Twitter

    Trump’s threats expose Canada’s utter dependency on the U.S.

    Originally published: The Maple on Feruary 3, 2025 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Feb 04, 2025)

    The immediate task for Canada should be to delink from the United States and the American Empire.

  • Support

    ‘Sandwiched’ caregivers show need for improved welfare state

    Originally published: The Maple on July 29, 2024 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Aug 22, 2024)

    Our economy and society are heavily dependent on unpaid care work, disproportionately performed by women.

  • (Photo: Nur Dogan)

    Jewish anti-Zionists fight slander against their pro-Palestinian advocacy

    Originally published: The Maple on April 30, 2024 by Nur Dogan (more by The Maple) (Posted May 02, 2024)

    Those who claim pro-Palestinian Jews are not really Jewish are “by my definition, completely unhinged.”

  • 2023 Labour Action Tracker report

    The U.S. is witnessing a considerable growth in strike activity

    Originally published: The Maple on March 25, 2024 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Mar 27, 2024)

    Cornell University’s Labour Action Tracker reports have noted a 77 per cent growth in strikes since 2021.

  • Photo via IndustriALL, with credit to IF Metall.

    Sweden is giving Elon Musk a taste of union strength

    Originally published: The Maple on December 11, 2023 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Dec 13, 2023)

    Let’s hope Swedish workers win and workers in all countries where Tesla operates take note and act accordingly.

  • Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, licensed under Public Domain.

    How Canada helped whitewash the Nazi SS Galicia Division

    Originally published: The Maple on September 28, 2023 by Alex Cosh (more by The Maple) (Posted Sep 29, 2023)

    How a 1986 commission came to be accused of whitewashing Nazi war crimes.

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

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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