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The Fight for Housing in Toronto’s Downtown East
230 Fightback is locked in a struggle to ensure that social housing will be built at 214-230 Sherbourne instead of yet another luxury condo development. In this, we are up … Keep reading »
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Sudan: How Imperialism Fuels War and Mass Violence
The civil war today tearing apart Sudan is not just a conflict between rival generals. Rather, it is the direct and tragic consequence of the plundering of the resources under … Keep reading »
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The Many Faces of (In)Equality
Adolph Reed Jr. and Ken Warren, two of the most prominent participants in the race-vs-class saga haunting the left, return here to deepen their case and do so with great … Keep reading »
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Dissent, Reason, or Reasoned Dissent: Trumpism Amidst Mamdani
Across the world, neoliberalism has exhausted the moral and material foundations of the liberal order that once began as a promise of equality, justice, prosperity, efficiency, and freedom. In practice, … Keep reading »
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The BRICS and De-Dollarisation
Nowhere in the 126-point Rio de Janeiro BRICS leaders’ declaration is there any mention of the term de-dollarisation. It makes no mention of initiatives to lessen the role of the … Keep reading »
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Climate Change and Labour Precarity: A Worker-Centred Agenda
Just as the COP30 meeting in Belen, Brazil, has ended, the last week of November is Canada Climate Week Xchange. We could hope this is good news, but instead of … Keep reading »
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Aren’t We Clever! Alas, Israel Is Too Clever by Half
Living in the UK in the 1980s, we encountered a particularly British phrase we had hardly heard before: “Too clever by half.” The Cambridge Dictionary definition is “too confident in … Keep reading »
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Huge Costs to Workers and the Environment: Tech Bubbles and New Investments in the US
Early in his second presidency, Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs was met with widespread scepticism. Critics warned of economic decline and a global backlash. Yet the current landscape for the … Keep reading »
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Labour’s Climate Fight Requires Public Ownership
Green politics won’t succeed if they can’t simultaneously speak to questions of affordability. And green affordability will require expanded public ownership. Keep reading »
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What We Forgot About Socialism: Lessons from The Red Riviera
Twenty years ago in November of 2005, Duke University Press published my first book: The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea. Produced in the wake of … Keep reading »
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$50-bn in Subsidies has Failed to Secure EV Jobs, Investment or Future
On October 16, 2023, it was all smiles for the cameras in Loyalist Township where politicians and corporate executives gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony to build a new $2.761-billion Electric … Keep reading »
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Three Dimensions of Militarism in the Climate Crisis
War, famously, is the pursuit of politics by other means. Cliche though it may be, the impacts of war and militarism are often overlooked by social movements focusing on formal … Keep reading »