Year: 2025
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No Labour for Genocide – No Complicity with Apartheid
On the eve of May Day, the General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza calls on workers in the US to translate their solidarity into effective actions that go beyond statements and create real pressure to stop the Gaza genocide. Keep reading »
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Trump’s Tariffs: Fake Problems, Fake Solutions
Trump is mad. Mad at the world. Mad at anyone who challenges him. Mad in his actions. Tariffs, a tax on goods coming into the US, are Trump’s weapon of … Keep reading »
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Divest Ontario’s University Pension Plan from Genocide, Occupation and Apartheid
The University Pension Plan (UPP) is now the recommended pension plan for institutions of higher education in Ontario. Currently, it manages $11.7-billion worth of pension assets. Workers at the University … Keep reading »
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A Pro-Climate Society of Care and Connection Against Trump’s Blackmail
As noted in my previous article, Canada and Quebec’s commercial entanglement in the US economy is profound following thirty years of “free trade,” with neoliberal capitalism as its legacy. Suddenly, … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Tariff Policy: Disciplining Capital by Granting Exemptions
An important motivation for President Trump’s tariff escalation is often overlooked: tariffs serve Trump as a domestic and foreign policy instrument of power. Keep reading »
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What Can the Diab Affair Tell us About Far-Right Politics?
Some believe that the Diab Affair has been settled. This is a gross misconception; and the responsibility for this erroneous view rests squarely on the Trudeau Liberals’ shoulders. For many … Keep reading »
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Toronto Moves to Limit the Right to Protest: An Open Letter to Mayor Olivia Chow
From the Coalition for Charter Rights and Freedoms Dear Mayor Olivia Chow, City Councillors and City Manager: We, the undersigned coalition, are writing to strongly oppose the development of a … Keep reading »
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The Carnation Revolution of Portugal Today: The New Challenge from the Far-Right
In an unmistakable style in the form of a provocative lecture in Lisbon in 2024, at the age of 84 Father Martins Júnior asked: “50 years later, what irony! There … Keep reading »
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Canada Must Protect Palestinian Healthcare Workers, End Genocide
The Canadian Union of Public Employees is demanding urgent action to end Israeli military attacks on Palestinian first responders and healthcare workers in Gaza, and to stop the ongoing genocide. … Keep reading »
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From Bad to Worse: The New Political Setting and Challenges for the Canadian Left
The Legitimation Crisis and Authoritarian State The current political conjuncture can be defined by an unfolding sense, in Canada and around the world, that neoliberal policies have failed and even capitalism … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Tariffs Seen from Contradictory Angles
Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targets announced on “Liberation Day,” April 2, are sustained, a full-blown economic … Keep reading »
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Facing Trump: What Perspectives for Quebec’s Ecosocialist and Ecofeminist Left?
The new era is characterised by far-right parties taking power in different parts of the world, including Donald Trump’s party in the United States. This situation poses a series of … Keep reading »