Author: Sam Gindin
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The Amazon Strike: Performative or Substantive?
The world has radically changed over the past four-plus decades. Unions haven’t. Or at least they haven’t changed nearly enough to match what they’re up against. In this context, unionizing … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Auto-Tariffs: Form Formal Sovereignty to Substantive Sovereignty
The danger confronting Canadians is not President Trump’s on-and-off tariff toggle. That’s only a symptom. The more significant threat is our deep integration with, and hence dependence on, the US. … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Threats Expose Canada’s Utter Dependency On The US
The immediate task for Canada should be to delink from the United States and the American Empire. Keep reading »
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Health and Safety: Amazon Fails to Deliver
“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021) At the end of March 2021, a unionization drive in Bessemer, Alabama, … Keep reading »
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A Generational Challenge: Taming Amazon, Renewing Labour
As the Occupy protests of 2011 exhausted themselves, a dramatic turn from protests to politics surfaced. In the US, the energy was channeled into Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign for the … Keep reading »
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Bidenomics and the Left
“There’s something happening hereBut what it is ain’t exactly clear.” – “For What It’s Worth,” Buffalo Springfield. The Other Crisis The go-to crises of the socialist left have been “American declinism” … Keep reading »
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The UPS Agreement in its ‘Concrete Context and Outcomes’: A Response to a Response
In an earlier discussion of the recent Teamster-UPS Agreement, I decried the generally uncritical cheerleading of the agreement and cited Barry Eidlin as someone who at least thoughtfully ‘raised important … Keep reading »
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A Missed Opportunity? A Closer Look at the Teamster-UPS Agreement
Members of the Teamsters just voted to ratify a new contract at UPS. The union made big gains – but in opting not to strike over demands beyond wages, the Teamsters may have passed up a transformative opportunity for the labor movement. Keep reading »
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Beyond Fatalism: Renewing Working-Class Politics
The following is a forward from the new (fourth) edition of From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour. Those interested in purchasing a copy can get a 25% … Keep reading »
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Education Workers Lead But Come Up Short: What Lessons for Labour?
Education Workers lead but come up short: What lessons for labour? In early November of this year an all-too familiar story seemed to be unfolding in Ontario. In this case, … Keep reading »
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Morbid Symptoms, Premature Obituaries: The American Empire
Globalization, which now confronts us as a locked-in inevitability, looked quite different in the first half of the 20th century. Then, in the face of the horrors of two world … Keep reading »
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Inflation: What Workers Need to Know
Inflation and the fight against it is on the public agenda today in a way not seen since the 1970s. Adolph Reed Jr. leads a discussion with Sam Gindin and … Watch video »