Then COVID-19 struck, and large-scale money printing was used to prevent further crisis, triggering rampant inflation. The bourgeoisie had already racked up massive debt by bailing out banks and corporations after the 2008-9 recession. In every country the same process is taking place to one degree or another: increasing instability, a ruling class that jumps from one crisis to another, and conditions pushing workers into class struggle. Meeting amid intensifying class struggle, the comrades displayed a seriousness of purpose and eagerness for the ideas needed to win in coming revolutionary upheavals, which was felt in the reports and discussions throughout congress.Īround 250 revolutionaries gathered for the 2023 Congress of Fightback and La Riposte socialiste / Image: Fightback Inflation leads to class struggleįred Weston, editor of the In Defence of Marxism website, opened with a presentation on perspectives for the world revolution. Participants included workers and youth from Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Halifax, Ottawa, Waterloo, Kingston, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Gatineau, Rivière-Rouge, Regina, Sudbury, Barrie, and Grand Prairie. The diverse regions from which comrades travelled to attend congress was itself a testament to how the forces of Marxism are expanding across Canada. As class war heats up around the world, revolutionary workers and youth are increasingly looking to Marxist ideas for a way out. In the face of intolerable conditions which the ruling class has no solution to, the masses are rising up and putting class struggle back on the agenda at a level not seen in decades. The latest congress took place as global capitalism faces unprecedented crisis on all fronts, from rampant inflation and debt to the war in Ukraine to the accelerating climate emergency. Around 250 revolutionaries gathered in Toronto on May 20-22 for the 2023 Congress of Fightback and La Riposte socialiste, the Canada and Quebec section of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT).
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