Author: Greg Albo
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SR21: Community Restaurants / Postcapitalism: Alternatives or Detour?
Dual Presentation with Benjamin Selwyn and Greg Albo, from the 2021 Socialist Register. Watch video »
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Hard Right Turn Ontario
A decade after the global financial crisis, few of the initial political calculations on the trajectory of world capitalism remain intact. The assessments made by liberals and social democrats alike … Keep reading »
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Another Round of Punishing Austerity in Ontario
The eminent conservative scholar of public budgeting Aaron Wildavsky characterized annual budgets as a record of “victories, defeats, bargains, and compromises.” The province of Ontario’s 2019 Budget, the first of … Keep reading »
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Trade Wars: NAFTA, China and the World Market
Global imbalances are once again in the news on a daily basis, as the American current account grows, with trade surpluses in other zones and capital and credit flows growing … Watch video »
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Demeaning Democracy: Turning Doug Ford’s Attack on Toronto into a Movement for Democratic Renewal
We, the undersigned group of scholars and teachers, deplore the autocratic and arbitrary reduction of ward representation for Toronto city council contained in Bill 5 being rushed through the Ontario Legislature by the just-elected Doug Ford-led Conservative provincial government. Keep reading »
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Ford’s Attack on Toronto: The End of Local Democracy As We Know It?
There’s a lot to be said about the new Doug Ford-led Conservative administration in Ontario, but it is Ford’s unilateral and radical reduction of the size of Toronto City Council … Keep reading »
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Local Roads to Austerity: Neoliberal Urbanism in Canada
The ‘urban question’, as it came to be called in the 1970s, is now a central focus of academic study, state planning and political struggle alike. Keep reading »
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2018 Socialist Register: Rethinking Democracy
The antagonism between liberalism and democratic processes is increasingly visible amidst the contradictions of capitalist globalization today. This is seen in authoritarian measures being adopted by so many states, as … Watch video »
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Launching the Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution
Toronto — 12 January 2017. The main purpose of the 2017 edition of the Socialist Register (SR) – one century after “Red October” – is to look forward, to what … Watch video »
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Tanner Mirrlees – The US Empire’s Culture Industry
The US Empire’s Culture Industry Toronto — 20 October 2016. View on www.slideshare.net From Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of … Watch video »
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From the Tar Sands to ‘Green Jobs’? Work and Ecological Justice
The ecological and social implications of climate change have – or should – become a central parameter for all discussions of work and capitalism. It is generally agreed that reliance … Keep reading »
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Canada Since 1960: A People’s History
Canadian Dimension Toronto Book Launch: Toronto — 7 June 2016. Canadian Dimension magazine (CD) is this country’s oldest Left publication. In this new book, Canada Since 1960: A People’s History, 25 … Watch video »