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Portugal Left Challenges the Trump Tariffs: Protecting Employment, Creating Productive Capacities
Donald Trump began a blackmail strategy with tariffs that has ended in a trade war with several countries. Now, he has paused some tariffs for 90 days and the European … Keep reading »
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Reverse the Theft of Public Goods and Take Back Control: A Green Way to Challenge Austerity and Reform UK
Millions of people have been suffering the effects of UK neoliberal policies, especially post-2010 austerity, which aggravated the damage from the 1980s-1990s austerity programme. They have endured greater hardship and … Keep reading »
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Iberian Blackout: Shutdown Private Profit to Promote an Ecosocialist Transition
The Anticapitalistas, a socialist project in the Spanish state, issued the following statement in the wake of the giant blackout throughout the Iberian peninsula last week. I think this is … Keep reading »
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Call from Gaza Unions to US Workers: Put Your Solidarity Into Action to Stop the Genocide
To the Free Trade Unions in the United States of America and to every free worker and trade unionist fighting for justice, freedom, and human dignity. We salute you on … Keep reading »
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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 »