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Canada’s “Maple Spring”
From the Quebec Student Strike to the Movement Against Neoliberalism This article first appeared on the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-New York Office website. The 2012 student strike in Quebec is a lesson … Keep reading »
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Camaro Blues
GM’s mid-December announcement that the next generation Camaro will be produced in Lansing, Michigan not in Oshawa is cause for serious reflection among Canadian autoworkers. This relocation of production is … Keep reading »
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Free and Accessible Transit Now!
Toward A Red-Green Vision for Toronto Transit is a critical issue for people in Toronto, as in all major urban areas. More is at stake than reducing traffic congestion and gridlock. … Keep reading »
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21st Century Eco-Socialism? Struggles over Nature in Venezuela
Santiago Arconada was the first Community Coordinator for the Caracas metropolitan region of HIDROCAPITAL, the city’s water utility, and subsequently held several prominent positions in HIDROVEN, the national water company. … Keep reading »
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Egypt in Light of the Iranian Revolution: The restoration of a dictatorship?
The new constitution submitted to referendum by Mohamed Morsi, the president of Egypt elected with the support of the Freedom and Justice party, i.e. the political wing of the Muslim … Keep reading »
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Haiti’s New Dictatorship
What constitutes a dictatorship? Haiti had an election in 2006, which the popular candidate won. It had an election in 2011, which had one of the lowest turnouts in recent … Keep reading »
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United States and al-Qaeda: Strange Bedfellows?
There is a war raging in our times between a coalition of states led by the United States of America and al-Qaeda which has entered its second decade. One of … Keep reading »
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Crisis and Resistance in Portugal
A day before the right wing coalition government in Portugal was to vote through its 2013 budget, the German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble met his Portuguese counterpart Vitor Gaspar and … Keep reading »
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Think About the Transportation Sector
Superstorm Sandy has made it clear that no matter how hard some politicians try to ignore climate change, climate change will not ignore them – or any of us. More … Keep reading »
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Pipeline Politics: Can Popular Protest Stop the Tar Sands Leviathan?
Petroleum giant Enbridge Inc. has taken huge strides in recent weeks to complete its plan to transport tar sands oil to eastern Canada and from there to foreign markets. Already … Keep reading »
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Kill Bill 115: Where is the Ontario Labour Movement Going?
This week, Ontario’s teachers, education workers and students will be turning up the heat on the Liberal minority government and Bill 115, which imposes a concessionary bargaining agenda on teachers’ … Keep reading »
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Venezuelan Opposition Fails to Make Counterproposal
The Plan of the Nation for the 2013-2019 period, proposed by President Hugo Chavez last June in the context of his socialist platform for the 2012 presidential election, stopped being … Keep reading »