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One Million More Reasons to Mobilize Against Ford
The public sector ‘salary restraint’ legislation was introduced on June 5th #QueensPark. The Bill is a shot across the bow of public sector unions, especially the teachers’ unions #OnPoli Keep reading »
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Why Is There Now Socialism in the United States?
Today, most people are aware that #socialism is particularly popular among American millennials. Keep reading »
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Between Dystopia and Democratic Socialism
The idea of socialism has been re-discovered by a layer of activists struggling for radical change, especially young people. Keep reading »
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European Progressive Future? Neither Yesterday’s Tsipras nor Today’s Greens
One cannot and should not turn away from the disastrous results of the recent European Parliament elections, especially considering that Leftist parties across the European Union (EU) expected to gain … Keep reading »
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Green New Deal: Plan, Mood, Battlefield
This article first published on the Viewpoint Magazine website. Climate scientists are beginning to sound like radicals. The 2018 IPCC report concluded that “unprecedented changes across all aspects of society” … Keep reading »
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Hard Right Turn Ontario
A decade after the global financial crisis, few of the initial political calculations on the trajectory of world capitalism remain intact. The assessments made by liberals and social democrats alike … Keep reading »
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Growth in Renewables has Stalled. Investment is Falling. But Why?
The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently announced that the growth of capacity additions to renewable power generation stalled in 2018, after nearly two decades of growth. Calling the new findings … Keep reading »
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Socialist Strategy and the Capitalist Democratic State
Analysis of the Leninist and the social democratic conceptions of the state, and the need to develop a democratic socialist politics for the 21st century. Keep reading »
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Oppose Doug Ford’s Ontario Schools Budget
Analysis of the cuts to Toronto School Budgets by the Conservative government of Doug Ford. Keep reading »
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Another Round of Punishing Austerity in Ontario
The eminent conservative scholar of public budgeting Aaron Wildavsky characterized annual budgets as a record of “victories, defeats, bargains, and compromises.” The province of Ontario’s 2019 Budget, the first of … Keep reading »
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The Strategic Question Revisited: Ten Theses
In 2006 Daniel Bensaïd made a very important call to reopen the debate on the ‘politico-strategic’ question. This call was made amidst a series of discussions within the European anticapitalist … Keep reading »
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People Music: From Mozart to Climate Change
David Yearsley’s fine article “Disaster Music” in April 12 Counterpunch generates thoughts about what can be called People Music. At present, global political and environmental events unfold disastrously. Yearsley writes … Keep reading »