Year: 2025
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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 »
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The Islamic Republic of Iran, Anti-Imperialism, and the Left
The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) pursued an anti-US foreign policy, largely compelled by the anti-imperialist climate generated by the 1979 Revolution, while simultaneously supporting the Palestinian cause from an … Keep reading »
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Soft Surveillance and Control: AI as a Tool of Gradual and Deep Political Repression
Digital Surveillance and Control Digital corporations, in collaboration with major powers, actively monitor individuals’ movements through smart devices and various communication tools. Virtually all digital activities – including supposedly secure private … Keep reading »
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Canada Must Act to End the Genocide in Gaza
We are witnessing unimaginable suffering in Gaza, as Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war through its blockade and militarized aid system. People in Gaza are dying from malnutrition … Keep reading »
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Israel’s Crimes and Jewish People – A Clarification
While the imperialists threaten us with a possible nuclear war and continue to devastate the environment, the Palestinian struggle for freedom from the US and Israeli oppressors is today at … Keep reading »
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For an Eco-Communist Alternative to Degrowth and ‘Luxury’ Communism
In his new book, Rojo fuego. Reflexiones comunistas frente a la crisis ecológica (Fiery red: Communist reflections on the ecological crisis), Argentine Marxist Esteban Mercatante takes aim at capitalism as … Keep reading »
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Health Inequalities and Capitalism in Canada
Excerpted and adapted from Health and Health Care Inequities: A Critical Political Economy Perspective (Chapter 6), Fernwood Publishing, 2025. See video of booklaunch in Toronto. Drawing inspiration from Engels (1845), … Keep reading »
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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 »