capitalism

Bell reflects on her experience as an artist surviving in a capitalist society. She paints a vision of Toronto in the ’90s and what’s happened to the thriving indie art scene in subsequent years. The neighbourhood she grew up in has been gradually swallowed by gentrification. Small family-run shops have taken turns being over- taken by national corporations, and marginalized groups have been forced to vacate the communities they once formed amidst scarcity.

A collection of sociopolitical opinions by youth

Interview of the Dorset Chiapas Solidarity Group

A revolutionary communist analysis of the Canadian state + society.

"This is a collection of 3 articles which serve as a good introduction to our weblog, Recomposition, which is about learning from labour struggles to improve the strategies and tactics of radical unionists."

A conversation between two freelancers about the negative aspects of self employment and unpaid, freelance, precarious, and/or contract work.

"We've now lived in the current world system (or variations on it) for quite some time. The system is run by the wealthy elite and relieve heavily on outdate religious beliefs and is based on financial wealth. With the same system now firmly in place for as long as this one has been, we can analyze it and see that the combination of monetary and religious influence results in a corrupt system where the population are kept working as slaves to corrupt governments and political powers. This is very much the same system that has dominated our planet now for centuries. However, an important thread has managed to survive through the decades: the power of written word.