Drawing a Logical Conclusion: The Need for Ideological Struggle

John Clarke, former major organizer of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, recently posted this on Facebook: John Clarke · We live in a society that is based on exploitation. The small minority of exploiters are raised under conditions that school them in the exercise of power and instill in them a fierce determination to preserve … Continue reading Drawing a Logical Conclusion: The Need for Ideological Struggle →

Climate Change Should Not Be the Focus–But Rather the Class Power of Employers

John Clarke, former major organizer for the Ontario Coalition of Poverty (OCAP), posted this on Facebook yesterday. John Clarke ontespSdor80h4904f6716896tc4cah5i5g6u65f8l61571h8iaa054hm1g0 · Capitalism's assault on the natural world is now producing impacts that must lead us to rethink our view of the class struggle and the strategies that flow from it. We must restrain the hand of … Continue reading Climate Change Should Not Be the Focus–But Rather the Class Power of Employers →

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Real Assumption of Some Bureaucratic Tribunals, Part Seven

It is supposed to be a fundamental principle of criminal law that a person is presumed innocent until proven otherwise by the State (government). This is the ideology or the rhetoric (which much of the left have swallowed). The reality is otherwise. In reality, the administrative apparatus of various organizations of the government and semi-governmental … Continue reading Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Real Assumption of Some Bureaucratic Tribunals, Part Seven →

Amazon’s Exploitation and Super-exploitation of Workers: Both are Exploitation

John Clarke, former major organizer for the Ontario Coalition of Poverty, posted the following on Facebook yesterday: John Clarke "Amazon’s use of ‘seasonal’ work is a strategy to save on labour costs and deny workers their rightful benefits and security. The white badge system is a cleverly disguised mechanism of worker exploitation, masquerading under the … Continue reading Amazon’s Exploitation and Super-exploitation of Workers: Both are Exploitation →

An Example of Oppression by the Social-Democratic Left

John Clarke, former major organizer of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, posted this on Facebook: This is mind bogglingly dreadful. Become informers or face eviction from your housing. This, moreover, is no aberration but is entirely in line with Labour's law and order focus. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/05/darren-rodwell-labour-barking-dagenham-london-knife-crime-evictions?fbclid=IwAR13LCRTcNq2gTaGYFKM-SGsHlLohpZQw4IZbv8dL0r_JWnlte5MmJPSO3o

How the Left Can Easily Become the Right, Or: How the Left Can Turn into its Opposite

John Clarke, former major organizer for the Ontario Coalitaiton Against Poverty (OCAP, posted this on Facebook: The failure to distinguish between reactionary rage and the stirring of working class resistance has emerged as a source of political disorientation. The fascist led 'trucker convoy' in Canada produced a veritable crop of such nonsense. https://libcom.org/article/how-christian-parenti-got-class-wrong-learned-talk-trump-and-lost-his-mind-autopsy?fbclid=IwAR0fKMoCqlulolsChJdLNzAh8GJjDwgRhPRcQcVln4MZjgAx9Yom9T46ECo

Review of Thier’s Book “A People’s Guide to Capitalism,” Part Three

I recently participated in a group called No One Is Illegal here in Toronto. The group decided to provide a zoom reading meeting every week to discuss the book A People's Guide to Capitalism, by Hadas Thier, with many participants not belonging to the group but interested in understanding more about capitalism. We read the … Continue reading Review of Thier’s Book “A People’s Guide to Capitalism,” Part Three →

Solidarity Among Political Activists and So-Called Criminals

John Clarke posted this yesterday on Facebook: When a wave of arrests took place following the major confrontation at the Ontario Legislature, in June of 2000, that became known as the Queen's Park Riot, those of us who were sent to the provincial jails experienced no end of solidarity and support from the other prisoners. … Continue reading Solidarity Among Political Activists and So-Called Criminals →

A Problem of the Transition to Socialism: The Relation between Less Developed and More Developed Capitalist Countries

John Clarke, former major organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, recently posted the following: John Clarke There are general considerations that come into play when we consider how a socialist society would develop. Obviously, no detailed blueprint can be drawn up ahead of time but there are obvious questions that would have to be … Continue reading A Problem of the Transition to Socialism: The Relation between Less Developed and More Developed Capitalist Countries →