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The Public Value of Public Sector Strikes
The essence of an unjust society is to continually demand and take from those with the least the little that they have to support their lives and life-goals and add … Keep reading »
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Toronto’s Plan to Push Out the Homeless
The Mayor’s Office in Toronto is today occupied by a much slicker operation than it was during the years of dysfunctional, bigoted buffoonery that unfolded under Rob Ford. Mayor John … Keep reading »
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Wynne Gives Big Retail the Gift of Beer
The heads of big retail might be walking with a spring in their step this week due to a potentially generous gift from Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. After months of … Keep reading »
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South Africa’s Troubled Alliance and the Road Ahead
An Interview with Karl Cloete The expulsion of the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) from COSATU in November 2014 was a watershed moment in the post-apartheid labour … Keep reading »
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StrikeTown: Why Are Toronto University Workers On Strike?
CUPE 3903 represents contract faculty, teaching assistants (TA) and graduate assistants at York University in Toronto, Canada. In August 2014, their collective agreement expired. Since then, teaching assistants and graduate … Keep reading »
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Fundamental Rifts: Power, Wealth and Inequality in the Arab world
Over four years since mass uprisings ousted sclerotic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, it can seem that the initial hopes represented by these movements lie in tatters. Libya, Syria, Yemen … Keep reading »
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Syriza’s Only Choice: A Radical Step Forward
“One must know how to employ the kairos [right or opportune moment] of one’s forces at the right moment. It is easy to only lose a little, if one always … Keep reading »
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Austerity Strangles Ontario: the TA strikes in Context
Austerity for working people and the accumulation of wealth in the corporate sector was sold as short-term pain for long-term gain. What we got of course was pain now, pain … Keep reading »
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The Paris Climate Talks and the Failure of States
The officials in charge of the United Nations climate talks say that no deal will be done in Paris in December (COP21) to avoid dangerous global warming. After preparatory negotiations … Keep reading »
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The Disaster in Libya
The title of Horace Campbell’s book on NATO’s 2011 Libyan intervention, Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya, is an allusion to a Guardian article by Seumas Milne entitled, … Keep reading »
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Breaking Out of the Invisible Prison
The Ten-Point Global Paradigm Revolution As we enter 2015, the global corporate system deepens and spreads in its eco-genocidal effects. But the dots are not joined in their common cause across … Keep reading »
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Alberto Nisman’s Death and AMIA: Who Cares About the Truth?
We offer here two articles by Ezequiel Adamovsky and Atilio Boron on the politics surrounding the death of Alberto Nisman in Argentina. On 18 January the Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman … Keep reading »