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The Ontario Liberals and Long-Term Care: The Struggle Against Privatization
Governments across Canada have been caught in a fiscal bind over the entire period of neoliberalism. On the one hand, they have pursued austerity and restraint almost without interruption since … Keep reading »
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Growing Tomatoes in the Era of Free Trade
Southwestern Ontario is the historic home of Canadian tomato growers. The bulk of the crop goes to processing, and since 1909 the dominant corporation had been H. J. Heinz, a … Keep reading »
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NUMSA and Allies Call for Dismantling the ‘Mineral Energy Complex’ in South Africa
Electricity Crisis Conference Declaration We, as representatives of trade unions that organize in the energy sector and delegates from communities that are struggling around outages, loadshedding, high electricity prices and poor … Keep reading »
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What You Need to Know About the Oil Price War
The dramatic crash in the price of oil is rewiring the circuits of global capitalism by creating enormous volatility in the world’s stock exchanges, hammering banks that made billions of … Keep reading »
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Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Say
How the broad climate movement has failed us It has been two months since the UN climate summit in Paris, aka COP 21. One might expect the kind of ebb and … Keep reading »
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Against Privatization: Health Coalition Demands Funding for Hospitals
The 1960s were about much more than protesting the war in Vietnam. It was also a time of cultural upheaval as a new generation challenged capitalist values, including its shallow … Keep reading »
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Eagle and Condor Meet in Oneida
On Sunday, October 25, a 10 person delegation headed by Irene Leon, advisor to the Ecuadorian foreign minister, was welcomed at the Kayanere’ko:wa longhouse within the K^onthyokwanhasta on Elijah Rd, … Keep reading »
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Quebec Unions Debate a Settlement
Quebec public-sector unions organized in the Common Front reached a tentative agreement with the government of Premier Philippe Couillard right before the holidays on December 17. The agreement followed an … Keep reading »
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Austerity Unbroken
Jannis Milios interviewed by Alp Kayserilioğlu Much coverage of the Greek debt crisis has focused on the ‘troika’ of international creditors and German chancellor Angela Merkel – a striking image of … Keep reading »
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Rekindling Hope: SYRIZA’s Challenges and Prospects
Before turning to the main theme of this article it would be very useful to come to terms with at least the following preliminary observations: The left in government and … Keep reading »
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The Davos Blind Eye: How the Rich Eat the Poor and the World
The just-released Oxfam Davos report An Economy For the 1% which the mass media have ignored arrestingly shows that 62 individuals (388 in 2010) now own more wealth than 50 … Keep reading »
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Can People’s Power Save the Bolivarian Revolution?
Rightists’ election victory poses major threat to Venezuela’s advances Seventeen years after Hugo Chávez was elected Venezuela’s President for the first time, the supporters of his Bolivarian Revolution, now led by … Keep reading »