Marxist Audio Archive

This week, Joel is joined by Julien Arseneau to discuss Quebec's Bill 96, the language debate, and the Quebec national question.

This week, Joel and Alex talk about the Ontario election, construction strikes in Ontario, the Alberta UCP's leadership review, and the latest scandal with the CRA

This week, Joel is joined by Laura Brown, editor of Socialist Revolution in the United States, to discuss the threatened overturn of Roe v. Wade, and how to fight back for abortion rights.

This week, Joel is joined by Fightback organizer Adam Zeineddine to talk about the rise of right populism in the Conservative Party. 

More and more workers are saying "the rent is too damn high!" Canada especially has some of the highest housing costs on the planet. Many are finding themselves spending over 30% or even 50% of their income in rent, and homelessness is increasing. Why is this so?

In this episode Fightback editor Alex Grant will give an overview of the Marxist theory of rent to explain why landlords are parasites and how they extract an unproductive tribute from the surplus labour of the working class. 

This week, Joel and Alex discuss the Ontario NDP's election platform, and what position Marxists take towards elections and social democratic parties.

For more on social democracy and the NDP, listen to our episodes on Bob Rae, Mike Harris and the lessons of the '90s: Part 1 and Part 2

This week Joel and Alex discuss the Liberal-NDP budget, and then rising unionization wave in the United States. 

The debate over “Critical Race Theory” has come to dominate mainstream media headlines in the United States. It is provoking a frenzy among Republicans, and is sparking furious confrontations at school board meetings, daily segments on cable news programming, and a torrent of legislation to limit what teachers can and cannot say in the classroom. 

Some on the left may be tempted to counter the Republican offensive by coming to the defense of CRT, or accepting its characterization as the innocuous study of systemic racism. But Marxism is above all a science, and demands a rigorous approach when it comes to questions of theory—not merely an attitude of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” So what does CRT represent for Marxists?

In this talk, Antonio Balmer, member of the editorial board of Socialist Revolution, discusses Critical Race Theory

Listen to Fightback editor Alex Grant on Cheri DiNovo's "Left, Lefter, Leftist". This month: The NDP-Liberal "coalition", the upcoming Ontario election, and the sixth wave of COVID. You can also listen on Cheri DiNovo's Soundcloud, here.

This week, Joel is joined by Laine Sheldon-Houle, Fightback activist and member of Swan River First Nation, to discuss the pope's recent apology to Indigenous delegates, and where to go beyond empty apologies.