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Capital and Resistance: A Review of Socialist Register 2023
Socialist Register 2023: Capital and Politics provides what the editors, Greg Albo, Nicole Aschoff, and Alfredo Saad-Filho, describe in the Preface as “a careful accounting of the organizational means by … Keep reading »
European Parliament to Join the Militarisation Path
The European Union is “in urgent war mode,” said Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy at the Munich Security Conference in February 2023. The … Keep reading »
Scapegoating Dr. Hassan Diab in France and Canada: The Varieties of Moral Experience
The fate of Dr. Hassan Diab is being determined by an absence of morality as in scapegoating, and by an absolutist moral stance that law is engraved in stone and … Keep reading »
Global Trade in Renewable Energy Assets Soars
Secondary market transactions are a common feature of Public Private Partnerships (Whitfield, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2019) and are now a core element of the renewable energy sector as detailed in … Keep reading »
A Spa Instead of Science: The Ford Government Strategy of Neglect, Tear Down and Take Away
Back in 2011 Doug Ford wanted a Ferris wheel. That was when he was a Toronto councillor and closest advisor to his brother, Mayor Rob Ford. Councillor Ford wanted Toronto … Keep reading »
Europe’s Hospitals on Strike: Different Countries, Same Labour Struggle
Germany Against Hospital Spending Cuts In recent years, an increasingly broad and well-networked hospital movement in Germany has dispelled the myth that hospital strikes are impossible. This labour struggle was set … Keep reading »
A Geopolitical European Union?
On taking office as President of the EU Commission in 2019, Ursula von der Leyen said she wanted to create a ‘geopolitical Commission’: “We have enormous tasks ahead of us: … Keep reading »
Ontario Tories Pass Bill to Privatize Hospitals
When the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) warned last spring leading into the election that the Ford government was planning to privatize surgeries and diagnostic services, Ford repeatedly denied that was … Keep reading »
Nakba at 75
Nakba is More Than One Day On May 15, 2023, we commemorate 75 years dispossession and violence faced by the Palestinian people, beginning in the late 1940s, and continuing to this … Keep reading »
South Korea Pivots to Conflict
South Korea’s far-right President Yoon Suk Yeol is rushing South Korea headlong into the middle of the new Cold War that the United States is waging against China. Yoon’s aspiration … Keep reading »
No Politics But Class Politics: Class, Identity, Inequality
In his recent book, Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond writes, “Poverty might consume your life, but it’s rarely embraced as an identity. It’s more socially acceptable today to disclose a … Keep reading »
Chile: Labour Movement Calls for Nationalizing Lithium Company
On April 20, Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced the launch of a National Lithium Strategy and the creation of a National Lithium Company. Under the new Strategy, the Chilean State’s … Keep reading »