Canadian Dimension: Sep/Oct 2010: Ecosocialism Thursday 2nd of September 2010, 09:15:00 AM The division within the environmental movement between market ecologism and ecosocialism has become increasingly clear with the failure of Copenhagen and the promise of Cochabamba. This issue of CD focuses on the rising tide of ecosocialism. We feature an exclusive interview with ecosocialist founder Joel Kovel...
Briarpatch: Politics of Migration Wednesday 1st of September 2010, 08:00:00 AM People move across borders from necessity or desperation, providing the citizens of the territory they enter with an unfree workforce that is often used to undermine the rights of more established workers. More than race, more than class, more than gender - but interacting powerfully with all three - the colour of one's passport, or the misfortune of having been displaced from one's country of origin, can do more to limit a person's opportunities than almost any other single factor. Declaring war on walls of all kinds, Briarpatch explores the politics of migration in the 'freedom of movement' issue.
Is Canada passing information on its citizens to Israel? by Yves Engler Tuesday 31st of August 2010, 09:15:00 AM On 7 April, Freda Guttman, a 76-year-old Jewish Montrealer, received a visit from agents of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). She slammed the door on them so it's not clear if the visit was related to her role in Tadamon!, a Middle East solidarity collective, or her friendship with Canadian activist Stefan Christoff. A tall, mild-mannered 29-year-old, Christoff has been one of Montreal's most effective grassroots activists for the past decade.
Review of James Laxer's Beyond the Bubble by Ingo Schmidt Monday 30th of August 2010, 09:15:00 AM Here is yet another book on the 2008-09 financial crisis and its fallout. One might wonder why anyone should pick up Laxer's book after Paul Krugman reissued his 1999 Return of Depression Economics, expanded with an update on the recent crisis. Certainly, Laxer is a prolific writer on Canadian political economy, but Krugman is a Noble Prize-winning economist, New York Times columnist, and the most referenced author in Laxer's book. Still, the remainder of this review will present reasons to get a copy of Beyond the Bubble.
The Bullet: The Class Struggle in Vaughan: The Sears Lockout and USW by Jordy Cummings Sunday 29th of August 2010, 09:00:00 AM In the last week of July 2010, workers of United Steelworkers Local 9537, who have been locked out of their workplace and on the picket-lines for nearly five months, found a big pile of shit sitting right smack-dab by their picket-line outside of a warehouse in Vaughan, just north of Toronto.
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