Year: 2024
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Expanding the Possible: A Climate Change Strategy from Below?
The Green New Deal has been largely blocked at the national level, but it is thriving in communities, cities, and states. Jeremy Brecher’s new book is both an urgent call to action and proof of concept. Keep reading »
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Developers Are In Charge Of Toronto’s Housing Policies
Toronto’s communities are being deeply impacted by a terrible lack of decent housing that people can afford to live in. This situation is the product of decades in which governments … Keep reading »
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Kagarlitsky: Don’t Include Me in Any Prisoner Exchange!
Recently, discussions have intensified about another possible prisoner exchange. Which Russian political prisoners are being considered for exchanging with whom is still unclear, yet the debate on who should and … Keep reading »
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Israel, My Israel? A Poem-Essay
ISRAEL Will never be the same Its viciousness untamed Universally shamed Appropriately blamed Zionist mythology unframed And forever stained People’s souls chained Hitler’s atrocities Excusing current monstrosities At an unimaginable … Keep reading »
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Silencing 101: Art College Bans Palestine Teach-in
In 1887, the Victoria School of Art and Design in Halifax, NS, was the first art school established in the British Empire. Today, it is known as the Nova Scotia … Keep reading »
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30 Jewish Organizations: We support UN Human Rights Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
As Jewish organizations and groups, we express our support for Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967. … Keep reading »
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The New EU Commission: A ‘European War Deal’ Next?
At their summit meeting at the end of June 2024, the European heads of state and government (the European Council) decided that Portugal’s former Prime Minister António Costa will succeed … Keep reading »
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Is Fascism Coming to America?
Leonard Cohen, poet laureate of Canada’s 1960s, offered a closing anthem to the twentieth century in his 1992 lament “Democracy.” In an earlier year of revolt, 1968, Cohen had refused … Keep reading »
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Fighting for a Better Deal and a Better University: Obstacles and Possibilities for Workers in Ontario’s Higher Education Sector
I write as a rank-and-file member of CUPE 3903 at York University, Toronto, who works as a teaching assistant. Our recent round of bargaining and strike action has underscored some … Keep reading »
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Canada Must Act NOW to Stop Israeli War Crimes in Northern Gaza
Dear Prime Minister, We, the undersigned humanitarian, religious, community and civil society organizations from all over Canada, express profound alarm at the rapidly worsening situation in northern Gaza. Civilians are … Keep reading »
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A Prime Competitor: Understanding Amazon’s Market Power
A large body of scholarship has emerged in recent years attempting to assess if Amazon is a monopoly. Such accounts generally define monopoly in terms of the neoclassical “quantity theory … Keep reading »
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One Year On: Our Call to Workers Everywhere – Stop the Genocide
Palestinian Trade Unions Call for Immediate Action Against the Ongoing Genocide One year ago, Palestinian trade unions made an urgent global call to action, imploring workers across the world to … Keep reading »