Month: July 2025
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Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital?
Across Canada and the United States, housing is not treated as a basic human need. It has been reimagined as an investment vehicle, a speculative asset class, and a profit … Keep reading »
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Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest Tariffs, Seen from South Africa
US President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own … Keep reading »
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How Employers Have Become Part of a Persecution Campaign: The Katherine Grzejszczak case
There are many accounts and criticisms of public-private partnerships (PPP’s) which are created to attain a government’s goal. Governments have internalized a market notion that profit-seeking leads to more efficiency … Keep reading »
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‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call
An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US President Donald Trump makes Canada ‘an offer it can’t refuse’. What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses … Keep reading »
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BDS@20: Redefining International Solidarity
On July 9th, we marked a milestone in the liberation struggle of the Indigenous people of Palestine, as the Palestinian-led nonviolent, anti-racist BDS movement completes 20 years of grassroots organizing … Keep reading »
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BRICS: A Defensive Coalition Against the Empire
The decline of the United States is the main explanation for the rise of the BRICS and allows us to place the dynamics of this emergence in a long-term context. … Keep reading »
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Iran’s Response to the Israeli-US Invasion: Dilemmas for Progressive Responses in Iran and the Region
Not many saw it coming. In just 12 days, the Middle East was once again plunged into a catastrophic war – from Israel’s massive surprise invasion of Iran, to the … Keep reading »
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City of Vaughan Attacks Free Speech: Paramedic Fired for Palestine Solidarity and Citing Documented Israeli War Crimes
Politicians Crossed the Line in Firing of York Region Paramedic CUPE Ontario is calling out City of Vaughan politicians for overreach in the firing of a long-serving York Region paramedic and … Keep reading »
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The State of Africa in the New World Order
Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the continent, ruling parties that once … Keep reading »
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Public Schools, Climate Disasters, Workers’ Control
One of the most unaddressed problems in coping with climate catastrophes is who will make decisions concerning what to do. There is a widespread assumption that the shots should be … Keep reading »