The Barricade is a project based in Canada aiming to provide political commentary, analysis, and education.

Each of us has come out of grassroots organizing, from tenant unions, labour unions, women's liberation, and anti-militarization movements, and more. We aim to create a rallying point for those fighting similar struggles, and to create the analysis and resources that we need to win victories and build working class power. 

Our perspective is simple: We believe that working-class people can fundamentally change our society, and that in order to do this, we need to build our collective power. By getting organized, fighting back against the ruling class, and taking democratic control over the systems that govern our lives — we can build something better.

The fact is: this system is reaching its limits. It has to change. The main questions now are: Who will change it? And how? Rich capitalists and their friends in politics are circling. It is in their interests that lie behind the rise of right-wing authoritarian regimes across the world.

We at the Barricade believe in taking a different course. We believe in building a fighting movement, in regular working people getting organized in our workplaces and our neighbourhoods, and in putting forward a program for a new system — one based on the people's democratic control of economic resources and political power.

The Barricade aims to be a voice of working-class struggle and to contribute to building the movement by highlighting the stories of those fighting back, putting forward political analysis to develop our understanding of the issues we face, and creating educational resources that others can draw on.