What's New: Alter Summit: Newsletter Issue 2

by Susan George | March 11, 2014

The AlterSummit has decided to centre its work in 2014 around three key themes: 1. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP [the EU-USA trade agreement seeking to integrate the two economies]. 2. The Troika and the European Union’s Politics of Austerity 3. The Rise of the Far Right.

Bullet #947: Violence in Venezuela Caused by Opposition, Not Government

by Steve Ellner | March 10, 2014

The slant of Venezuela's private media and the international media on what is happening in Venezuela is clear: the government is responsible for the violence. In the first place, it is said, government-ordered gunmen are shooting at peaceful demonstrators and the violence generated by the opposition is just a response to the brutality of police and military forces.

Books: Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s

review by Ernest Tate | March 9, 2014

The years I write about in these pages were indeed heady and optimistic times for socialists, especially as we neared the latter part of the Sixties. Many of us even began to toss around the idea of "socialism in our time" because the political conditions seemed to be very promising as the ruling classes in many countries appeared to be losing whatever little moral authority they possessed over people.

What's New: Ali Mustafa

by Justin Podur | March 9, 2014

I met Ali Mustafa a long time ago, when he was one of the younger activists in Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA). I was not so old as I am now but Ali's energy and anger made me feel my age then. Ali was no single-issue activist. He spent a summer working (as an intern I think) with the Movimento Sem Terra (MST) in Brazil, a movement of landless peasants. That was how he did things. He wanted to go, be in it.

LeftStreamed: Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

March 9, 2014

A discussion with author and labour organizer Jane McAlevey. Recorded in Toronto, 27 February 2014.

What's New: Bread and Roses Too!

by Joan Baez | March 8, 2014

Hearts starve as well as bodies.

LeftStreamed: Poor People's History of East Downtown Toronto

March 8, 2014

For close to two centuries East Downtown Toronto has welcomed the unemployed, homeless and working poor. Infrastructures to support the unemployed, some of which date back to the establishment of Toronto first poor house to the 1830s, are now being threatened and dismantled by the city to make room for Toronto's more affluent residents. Where will the unemployed, homeless, and poor residents go?

Co-op executive pay reveals the depths that business has sunk to March 11, 2014

Veteran left-winger Tariq Ali announces his support for Scottish independence March 10, 2014

Brazilian Street Sweeper Strike Victorious March 10, 2014

Who Was in Kiev's Independence Square? March 10, 2014

Line 9 will snake across Ontario and Quebec waterways March 10, 2014

Remarks of the Chief Electoral Officer, on Bill C-23 March 10, 2014

Why Is Stephen Harper Ignoring the UN's Push to Investigate Missing Aboriginal Women? March 10, 2014

Syria : Immense injustice and a fallen comrade March 10, 2014

Britain accused of breaching European treaty with austerity cuts to councils March 10, 2014

Canadian freelance photographer among 7 killed in Syria March 9, 2014

Why it's time to occupy the state March 9, 2014

Far-left surge to outnumber Liberals in EU elections March 9, 2014

Starved and evicted: Britain's poor now treated worse than animals March 9, 2014

The Tories were right to be nervous March 9, 2014

Continental Crucible:
Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America

Empire's Ally:
Canada and the War in Afghanistan
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Socialist Register 2014:
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