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Climate Change and Socialism
By embracing the fight against climate change, we need to explain that this is a fight for a new world that restores the balance between Mother Earth and our needs … Keep reading »
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Climate Change: ‘The Greatest Challenge of Our Time’
“Climate change is life or death. It is the new global battlefield. It is being presented as if it is the problem of the developed world. But it’s the developed … Keep reading »
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Solidarity Saved Me from Hitler: Now it Must Save Palestine
The following talk was given by Suzanne Weiss to Solidarity for Palestine Human Rights at the University of Western Ontario on November 20, 2013. Her talk examines Canada’s insertion into … Keep reading »
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System Change or Climate Change?
Amid disputes between developed and developing countries, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP19) in Warsaw, Poland are set to conclude today [November 23, 2013] with little in the way … Keep reading »
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Heinz Leamington: Ripe for a Cooperative
The closure of the Leamington, Ontario Heinz factory by mid-2014 will result in 740 job losses in the industrial and agricultural region of southwestern Ontario between London and Windsor, Ontario. … Keep reading »
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Privacy and the Right to Strike in Canada
The neoliberal assault on labour has now entered its fourth decade. While Canada’s labour union density continues to hover around thirty percent, that number hides declining density rates in the … Keep reading »
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No Transit Fare Increase!
The entire Canadian urban public transit system is in serious crisis after years of neglect and underfunding from the neoliberal policies adopted by all levels of government in Canada. This … Keep reading »
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Stop Line 9 Should Be Labour’s Demand
One would have hoped that Canada’s newest and largest private sector union – UNIFOR, made up of the former Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) unions … Keep reading »
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Challenging Harper’s Imperialist Agenda
It has become commonplace to observe that the Conservative government of Stephen Harper has been re-making the symbols and practices of the Canadian state. Canada, in this view, was once … Keep reading »
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Pouring Fuel on the Climate Change Fire
The earth is on fire. If that statement sounds alarmist, it’s because you should be alarmed. Each month seems to bring new and more frightening proof of the effects of … Keep reading »
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The Philippines Typhoon: Climate Change and Political Disaster
The Philippines is a country long wracked by political corruption, colonialism, military occupation and dependence and millions living in poverty. When natural disasters hit, such as Typhoon Haiyan, a category … Keep reading »
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The Scandalization of Politics: On FordLisi, HarperDuffy, and a Few Others
We are gripped by scandal. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is implicated in a top-level cover up of illegal expense claims by one his own foot soldiers: now-suspended Senator … Keep reading »