Author: Herman Rosenfeld
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The Canadian Labour Movement Responding to Israel’s Attacks on Gaza
Since Israel began its brutal siege of the Gaza Strip on October 7, Canada’s labour unions have largely come out in vocal support of the Palestinians. Ranging from calls for … Keep reading »
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Similar Challenges, Different Narratives: A Tale of Two Unions
The 2023 auto bargaining between the auto unions and the Detroit “Big 3” is shaking out to be different in a way that few of us could have imagined. The … Keep reading »
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Capitalism Against Labour: Can We Re-Invent Work?
Mike Yates is a long time Marxist, socialist writer and analyst, and one of the editors of Monthly Review. Over the years he has written extensively about capitalism but particularly … Keep reading »
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Building a Labour Movement to Take on the Billionaire Class
Joe Burns’ new book, Class Struggle Unionism, reads like pamphlet, with a clear call to transform the union movement in the US (although it is still applicable to Canada). The … Keep reading »
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‘To Liberate Ourselves, We Must Reinvent Work’: Class Struggle, Workplaces, and the State
Mike Yates is a long-time Marxist and socialist writer and analyst, one of the editors of Monthly Review. Over the years he has written extensively about capitalism, with particular emphasis … Keep reading »
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Lean Production Is Not a Solution
Matt Vidal’s framing of lean production as a neutral technology that provides openings for worker empowerment and participation is mistaken. It is a production system that bolsters the cost-reduction capacities … Keep reading »
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US Election: What Could it Mean for Canada and the Canadian Left?
The US election is about much more than Trump, and it provides some food for thought for Canadian socialists. Keep reading »
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Not Completely a Company Town
Peter Findlay’s documentary film Company Town provides a welcome opening to initiate discussion and debate about the closure of General Motor’s once massive (it had 23,000 workers at one time) … Keep reading »
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Challenges and Openings for the Free Transit Movement in Toronto
Toronto is Canada’s largest city, with a population of 2.7 million (and over 6 million in the Greater Toronto Area). Its public transit system is the third largest in North … Keep reading »
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Free Public Transit is Key to a Green New Deal: Free Transit for Toronto
Expansion of public transportation must be central to a just transition, but the subject has been almost entirely missing from the election discussion. Keep reading »
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Uber-Capitalism: Platform Mobility/Mobilizing Workers
Bronwyn Frey examines some of the worker organizational strategies emerging within Indonesia’s vast informal transportation sector, where precarity is longstanding and perhaps less exceptional than in the West. Watch video »
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The Case for Free Public Transit: Just Mobility and Urban Planning
Toronto launch of a unique book, Free Public Transit – And Why We Don’t Pay to Ride Elevators. The launch featured a discussion about the promises, challenges and social underpinnings of free public transit. Watch video »