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The Canadian Pension Plan: The Deadly Hand of the Market
A recent article in the Toronto Star and its accompanying photo bear comment. The reaching hands are not of rioting, starving people grasping for food but of stockbrokers on the … Keep reading »
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Kinder-Morgan Fiasco: The Cat Is Out of the Bag at the CPPIB
In the weeks and months ahead, there will be many political casualties of the Liberal government’s crisis surrounding the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. The first of these, however, … Keep reading »
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The Ontario Election isn’t about Deficits, and that’s a good thing
How big is your deficit? This Ontario election, no one seems to care – and that’s a decisive positive to emerge from a campaign that’s too often been submerged in … Keep reading »
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The Stanley Cup Finals: Festival of Exploitation?
The Stanley Cup Finals have arrived. For ardent hockey fans and their proxies in the mainstream sports media, this is the triumphant culmination of an epic journey of athletic mastery … Keep reading »
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The ‘One Democratic State Campaign’ for a Multicultural Democratic State in Palestine/Israel
Jeff Halper introduces the One Democratic State Campaign, a concept both democratic and just acknowledges the multicultural character and the collective rights of all the people living in the country. Keep reading »
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MST Letter to the Brazilian People
Brazil is experiencing a deep economic, political, social and environmental crisis as a result of the international crisis of capitalism and the inability of this system to solve the contradictions … Keep reading »
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The Great March of Return and Israel’s Attack on Gaza: Canadian Opposition
Six statements by Canadian organizations condemning Israel’s violent response in Gaza against the Palestinian march of Return. Keep reading »
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Local Roads to Austerity: Neoliberal Urbanism in Canada
The ‘urban question’, as it came to be called in the 1970s, is now a central focus of academic study, state planning and political struggle alike. Keep reading »
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Teachers Lead in the Revolt Against Austerity
The strikes aren’t just about pay. They’re a rejection of tax cuts for the wealthy and a rallying cry for public goods and services. Keep reading »
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A New Politics? Movements, Power and Transformation
Book Review: Hilary Wainwright, A New Politics of the Left. Keep reading »
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The May ’68 Events and Revolution in the West
Analysis of the May 1968 events in Europe and their significance for a revolutionary movement today. Keep reading »
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The Family-Party-State Nexus in Nicaragua
In 1979 a popular uprising led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew the U.S.-backed Somoza-family dictatorship which had ruled Nicaragua since the 1930s, and in 1984 the Sandinistas … Keep reading »