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. 

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 th...

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.

This week, Joel and Alex discuss the Jerry Dias corruption scandal, the inaction of the Canadian labour movement in the face of declining standards of living, and the need for workers' democratic control. 

Philosophy is crucial for political struggle, because philosophy is our method of understanding the world. In this presentation from the Montreal Marxist Winter School 2022, marxist.com editor, Hamid Alizadeh defends Marxism against fashionable postmodern philosophy. He shows how the philosophical approach of denying the objectivity of the world, which is increasingly popular among scholars in bot...

Marxist theory ⁠— in its ability to predict the general course of development within the economy and society ⁠— demonstrates the superiority of foresight over astonishment. In this talk Alex Grant, editor of Fightback (marxist.ca) explains the economic and political forces at work in Canada. A vacuum of left leadership has made it possible for the right-wing to fill the void. But this is no reason...

This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the “Maple Spring”, which represents the largest mass movement in the history of Quebec.  Fightback editor, and participant in the 2012 movement Joel Bergman discusses the lessons of the Maple Spring that we must learn if we are to win future struggles. 

This week, Joel and Alex talk about the newly-announced deal between the Liberals and the NDP, and what's the matter with it. 

As a defining feature of Canadian capitalism, the oppression of Indigenous peoples is of prime importance for Marxists. In this talk from the Montreal Marxist Winter School 2022, Laine Sheldon-Houle, an activist with Fightback in Alberta and a member of the Swan River First Nation, explains how Marxism, which advocates a united class struggle, is the best tool to help fight for Indigenous liberati...

Russia's war in Ukraine has been met with confusion and disorientation on the left. What is the Marxist position on war? How do you oppose Imperialism without falling into the camp of the bourgeoisie of either side? In this talk, Fightback editor Marissa Olanick discusses Ukraine: How to Oppose Imperialist War

This week, Alex and Joel talk about the problems with pacifism, and why a class-based approach is necessary to end war. 

This week, Joel and Alex talk about the run-away inflation that's threatening workers' standard of living. What is inflation, where does it come from, and how do socialists fix the problem? 

This week, Joel is joined by Jorge Martin, editor of In Defence of Marxism , putting forward the Marxist analysis of the conflict in Ukraine, cutting through the confusion and propaganda of the imperialists. 

The pandemic has exposed the system that puts profits before needs. Capitalism is going through the deepest crisis in its history. It is an economic, social and political crisis, which is now expressing itself in political turmoil and growing class struggle across the globe. While the ruling class attempts to bury Marxism, it has in fact never been so relevant as it is today. We need revolutionary...

Listen to Fightback editor Alex Grant on Cheri DiNovo's "Left, Lefter, Leftist". This month: The "Freedom" Convoy, and where is the Conservative Party going? You can also listen on Cheri DiNovo's Soundcloud, here .

This week, Joel and Alex are joined by Ukrainian Marxist Peter Mikhalenko, to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, what's happening, why, and what position socialists should take. 

We are living in a time of unprecedented upheavals. Capitalism is creating the condition for revolution around the world... even in Canada. This week, Joel and Alex discuss the War Measures Act, counter-protests against the convoy, and governments lifting pandemic measures. 

For the vast majority of its existence, humanity has lived in classless societies with egalitarian relations between individuals. By analyzing the development of the earliest class societies, we can begin to understand the material basis for the oppressive class relations that still exist under capitalism.  In this episode, comrade Sebastian Seyva produces part two of "The Origins of Class So...

Welcome to This Week In The Canadian Revolution, a new weekly podcast from Fightback! We are living in a time of unprecedented upheavals. Capitalism is creating the condition for revolution around the world... even in Canada.  Join us every week as we analyze what Trotsky called "the molecular process of revolution", to prepare for the struggles that are to come.