Marxist Audio Archive

In an attack on the entire labour movement, the Ontario government has tabled back-to-work legislation against Ontario workers before the strike has even started, and is using the notwithstanding clause to push through this unconstitutional attack.

This week, Joel is joined by custodian and organizer with the CUPE 4400 Rank-and-File Group, Hermes Azam, to talk about what needs to happen for the labour movement to fight back against this attack. 

This week, Joel is joined by Adam Booth from Socialist Appeal to talk about the fall of Liz Truss, the death of the queen, and class struggle in the U.K. 

This week, Joel and Alex discuss the Communist Manifesto, and the ways in which it continues to be incredibly relevant to the modern world. 

The movement against the Iranian regime has escalated on the streets spreading to more than 140 cities, towns and villages across Iran. What started as a protest against the killing of a young Kurdish woman, has turned into a powerful revolutionary movement of the youth against the entire regime. In this episode, Fightback activist Maral N. discusses what has led up to the current movement, and where it needs to go in order to win.

This week, Joel is joined by Hamid Alizadeh, editor of marxist.com, to talk about the mass protests in Iran, what's necessary for it to win, and what we can learn from the movement in Canada

We are living in a time of crisis on all fronts—war, poverty, oppression, political instability and economic collapse have all compounded to create a living nightmare for workers and youth. However, these are not unconnected events, but all different expressions of a single crisis: the crisis of capitalism.

This is the system that crushes the working class on a daily basis, and is particularly bad for the youth. Many young people have rightly concluded that capitalism has robbed them of their future. So, what is to be done?

In this talk, Fightback organizer Joel Bergman discusses the crisis of capitalism and how we can organize a revolutionary leadership to to lead the way to a socialist future.

This week, Joel is joined by Benoît Tanguay, editor of La Riposte socialiste, to discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and how to abolish the monarchy in Canada.

Across Canada there is a marked increase in strike votes and strike activity among unionized workers, from public service workers in British Columbia to education workers in Ontario. Unionization drives for unorganized workers is picking up in Starbucks, Amazon and other workplaces. All of this is a response to rising inflation and the higher cost of living. As big corporations and their friends in government put the cost of their own crisis on the backs of workers, workers are instinctively beginning to fight back.

In this talk, Alex Grant speaks on the need to strike against inflation.

War, poverty, climate change, hunger, disease, the concentration of power, wealth, and influence in the hands of a few. These, and countless more nightmares have plagued the world for over 100 years, making life miserable for the vast majority of the globe. Lenin proposed in his work, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, that these phenomena are not a bug or mistake of capitalism, but rather the logical progression under a system based on the relentless and unending pursuit of capital. 

In this talk from the Western Canadian Marxist Summer School 2022, Fightback activist Larissa discusses exactly how the imperialist powers make life a living hell for the rest of us, and what we can do to fight back.

This week, Joel is joined by Daniel Morley, writer for In Defence of Marxism, to discuss U.S. and Chinese saber rattling over Taiwan.