Month: August 2025
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Challenging the EU’s Deadly Partnership with Israel
In the nearly two years since Israel’s assault on Gaza began, at least initially in response to the Hamas attack on 7 October, over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed. Entire … Keep reading »
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Exposing Canada’s Role in Arming Israel
On July 29, World Beyond War and the Palestinian Youth Movement published a 53-page report, “Exposing Canadian Military Exports to Israel,” detailing the extent of the Canadian government’s direct involvement … Keep reading »
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The Air Canada/CUPE Fight and the Bias of Law: And why it is righteous and effective to breach the law
In Canada, there are only two parties to a collective agreement: the employer and the union certified as a bargaining agent for some of that employer’s workers. Workers are not … Keep reading »
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The ‘Twin Bill 5s’ and De-Democratization
Amid escalating US tariffs and annexation threats, Canada’s political leaders have invoked “national unity” as the guiding principle of their efforts to navigate the crisis (Carney, 2025, May 8). For … Keep reading »
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Workers’ Self-Management and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism
The recent book by Marcelo Vieta, Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020), provides a wealth of information and … Keep reading »
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Nurse-Patient Ratios: Saving Lives and Rebuilding Nurses’ Morale
“I have anxiety and feelings of guilt that I should have done more, but I can’t. I can only do so much.” A new academic study is proposing a bold … Keep reading »
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BDS@20: Resilience, Resistance, and Regeneration
In the current most depraved phase of the US-Israeli livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, what Jewish Voice for Peace calls Israel’s “final solution,” we are marking the … Keep reading »
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Unions in Tunisia Win a Victory for Public Energy and Worker Rights
Over the past few days, there have been a series of power outages across Tunisia. During Tunisia’s sweltering summer months, electricity demand often surges to record-breaking levels as air conditioning … Keep reading »
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It’s Time to Confront Big Tech’s AI Offensive
Big tech companies continue to spend massive amounts of money building ever more powerful generative AI (artificial intelligence) systems and ever larger data centers to run them, all the while … Keep reading »
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Wildfires Fuel the Climate Crisis
Even in the early stages of Canada’s wildfire season, it was already clear that this year would be the second worst wildfire in Canadian history, surpassed only by the horrific … Keep reading »
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Critical-Dialectical Reasoning for a Perilous Age
The following is excerpted and adapted from the authors’ recent book Thinking Systematics: Critical Dialectical Reasoning for a Perilous Age and a Case for Socialism (Fernwood 2025). Twenty-first century humanity … Keep reading »