In this op-ed, Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant calls for a national day of action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Comrade Goldberg, who was sentenced along with Nelson Mandela in the famous Rivonia Trial, passed away early this morning at the age of 87. Cde Denis was part of the formation of South Africa’s armed group, the MK and in July 1963 he was arrested at SACP headquarters, Liliesleaf Farm. He was sentenced to four terms of life imprisonment."

On May 1st, frontline workers at some of the biggest corporations in the country will lead a mass strike action, asking customers to boycott Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, and Target.

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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to highlight the massive and devastating inequality in the US, the work of socially progressive publishers is more important than ever. With the goal of supporting one another during the uncertainty of the pandemic, a group of left-wing independent publishing houses have banded together to form the Radical Publishers Alliance.

The first years of the 2000s were marked by a rapid growth in the number of migrant workers coming to Canada. In response to demands from employer groups, the federal government’s expansion of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to lower-skill occupations led to significant employer interest in using temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to address their labour market needs. The number of TFWs in Canada more than quadrupled in 12 years to just under 400,000. Alberta, with its super-charged economy at the time, was the most active province in recruiting migrant workers. At the peak, 77,000 migrant workers lived in Alberta, making up 3% of the province’s workforce.