The accords put in place a plan for integrated agrarian reform and democracy, as well as restitution for the victims of the long war.

But Marx also argued that the underlying contradiction of the capitalist mode of production is between profit and productivity. Rising productivity of labour should lead to improved living standards for humanity including reducing the hours, weeks and years of toil in producing goods and services for all. But under capitalism, even with rising labour productivity, global poverty remains, inequalities of income and wealth are rising and the bulk of humanity has not been freed from daily toil.

Indigenous communities across Canada and throughout North America are reeling following the disclosure last week that the remains of at least 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried in a mass unmarked grave on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential...