James Clayton

Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault has all but publicly urged the government to ban TikTok, issuing a dire “warning” to “young people” against using the social media platform on the entirely bogus premise that it is a tool of the Chinese state.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian men admitted to Canada as temporary residents following Russia’s reactionary US-NATO-instigated invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 now face forced repatriation and conscription into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Canadian imperialism, which has long worked with Washington to use Ukraine to threaten and ultimately wage war on Russia, is quietly supporting this criminal policy because their proxy army is losing the war.

Canada’s pro-war, genocide-supporting ruling class has succeeded this month in shutting down the two main remaining student encampments protesting Israel’s “final solution” of the Palestinian question.

Socialist Equality Party Canada (SEP) members held a successful campaign Saturday in Toronto’s downtown St. James Town neighbourhood to mobilize working class support for the imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk. A leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists, which is active throughout the former Soviet Union and opposes the US-led war on Russia in Ukraine, Syrotiuk is being held on trumped-up charges of “treason” by the Ukrainian regime.

The National Executive Board of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is supporting and seeking to enforce a right-wing, state-supported witch hunt vilifying Fred Hahn, the president of CUPE’s Ontario division, as an “antisemite” for his opposition to Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza.

The far-right Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) is raising $150,000 to fund a lawsuit against the Canadian government to stop the potential release of the heretofore secret Part 2 of the 1985 Deschenes Commission Report on War Criminals in Canada. The report contains the names of more than 900 Nazi war criminals who were admitted as immigrants to Canada, the so-called “Master List,” along with summaries of the criminal allegations against each of them.

Canada’s capitalist press has responded with a giant shrug to the fascistic campaign of violent threats and political intimidation directed against the documentary film Russians at War. Virtually no condemnation of the attempt by fascists to censor the film by means of violent threats, let alone the Liberal government’s tacit approval of their actions, has been forthcoming from the country’s leading media outlets.

Faced with growing revulsion and mass opposition among workers and youth to Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza and its expanding slaughter in Lebanon, Canada’s ruling class is waging a war on basic democratic rights. Employing the repressive apparatus of the capitalist state—the police, courts and intelligence agencies—and increasingly far-right vigilantes, its aim is nothing less than the criminalization and suppression of all opposition to Israel’s genocide, and to Canadian imperialism’s war drive.

James Clayton US weapons scanning company Evolv Technology will be banned from making unsupported claims about its products in a proposed settlement with the US government.

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