International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Out of the Impasse? The Avi Lewis Campaign and Left Strategy

Marcel Nelson, Nathan Rao — 2026-03-22T17:52:00Z

Journalist and activist Avi Lewis is campaigning for the leadership of the NDP in the Canadian state, attracting much attention, dedication, and debate. Voting concludes on 28 March.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Canada

More pay, but less union democracy - A complicated strike victory at Air Canada

David Camfield — 2025-09-02T14:18:32Z

After an inspiring four days on strike, Air Canada flight attendants are now voting on a tentative agreement (TA) that offers significant gains in pay. To get the TA, however, union officials also agreed to sacrifice the workers' right to reject the whole deal and fight for more. Canadian socialist David Camfield explains the unusual circumstances of this struggle—and the unusual deal that ended it.
Flight attendants at Air Canada (AC) and Air Canada Rouge, around 10,500 workers, went on (…)

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Canada, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Lessons from the last federal elections: Towards the renewal of the status quo ante or the desperate search for an agreement with Trumpism

André Frappier, Bernard Rioux — 2025-05-25T09:19:49Z

While various polls for 2024 predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party of Canada, the last federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth term. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump's threats of annexation of Canada. These fears weighed heavily on voting intentions.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Canada, Quebec

Trump's Trade War and Canadian Workers

Socialist Project — 2025-04-06T09:51:27Z

The 25% tariffs imposed on exports from Canada and Mexico by the US administration of Donald Trump effective March 4 (with an exception of 10% tariffs for Canadian oil and gas and potash) constitutes an aggressive attack on the livelihoods of Canadian working people and a threat to the survival of key industries in Canada. Trump postponed some of the auto and other tariffs in sectors covered by the US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade treaty between the three countries (about 40% of Canadian exports to the US), with auto tariffs planned for April 2nd but has threatened to continue with others. Further tariffs on aluminum and steel (over the 25% level) were threatened to be as high as 50%, with Trump also threatening to “shut down” the Canadian auto industry.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA), Canada, Economy

Trump, Europe and outraged virtue: malaise in imperial supremacism

Thierry Labica — 2025-01-25T20:42:24Z

Newly elected United States President Donald Trump has set the tone with some startling foreign policy statements: annexation of the Panama Canal, outright colonisation of Greenland and, for Canada, publication on his social network of a map of North America entirely covered in the Star-Spangled Banner. As if inspired by Netanyahu brandishing the map of a single great Israel before the UN General Assembly, here is Trump, season 2.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA), Canada, European Union, Greenland

Lives Yes, Pipelines No!

Rebecca Kemble — 2023-03-23T15:47:28Z

Thousands of marchers braved frigid temperatures and took to the streets of Montréal, Quebec on Saturday, December 10, 2022 in an Indigenous-led march outside the COP 15 Conference on Biodiversity.

- IV578 - March 2023 / Canada, Quebec, Indigenous struggles

No return to ‘normal' LGBT politics!

Gary Kinsman — 2022-02-24T10:03:06Z

In the wake of the pandemic, a radical re-orientation of queer and trans organizing is in order

- IV565 - February 2022 / Canada, LGBT, Sexual politics

The Truckers Convoy, Observations from a Veteran Socialist

Ken Hiebert — 2022-02-22T15:41:34Z

“It would be wrong to categorise all Canadians protesting against Covid restrictions as fascists, but the Left has not won them over.”

- IV565 - February 2022 / Canada, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Canadian Truckers Protests Show Strength of Trumpism North of Border

Dan La Botz — 2022-02-13T08:43:07Z

“If organized labour is to have any relevance in the era of COVID, it must mobilize to counter and even stop far right protests around the country, and make aggressive demands that speak to the basic needs of working class people.”

- IV565 - February 2022 / Canada, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Canadian Tie Up

Tony Leah — 2022-02-13T08:15:08Z

“The big rigs that have played such a disruptive part in the protests were brought there by owner-operators or by owners of trucking companies. No working class truck driver has the wherewithal to take a 6-figure vehicle to a protest and park it for days and weeks on end.”

- IV565 - February 2022 / Canada, Trade unions/workplace organizing