For a number of years, he was active in the labor movement and graduated from the university-Labor program at the University of Manitoba.
After the collapse of the USSR, Ratsma continued his solidarity work through the newly formed Canadian Friends of Soviet People and International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People, which was formed at a world conference in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in September 2001.
His articles were translated into many languages and published in multiple countries, including Nepal, India, Russia, the Netherlands, and Ukraine.
He most notably contributed to Northstar Compass, Organ of the Canadian Friends of Soviet People, in addition to Axis of Logic, an alternative media outlet.
On November 17, 2004, after a long struggle with cancer, Vic Ratsma died with his family beside him at a hospital in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.