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Cheap Labour, Cheap Lives
Contextualizing Farm Worker Deaths in South Africa and Canada There is a passage from Olive Schreiner’s 1883 novel The Story of An African Farm where she describes the isolated existence of … Keep reading »
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Ed Miliband At the Miners’ Gala
A Red Dawn Over Durham? Although their histories are quite different, the British Labour Party and the U.S. Democrats have one thing in common: both like to avoid too much public … Keep reading »
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What Will Change in France?
In the traditional speech to the National Assembly, France’s Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of the ruling Socialist Party laid out the political program he shares with the new President François … Keep reading »
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Cuba’s Coming Co-operative Economy?
Reflections From Two Recent Field Trips In 2011, I made two trips to Cuba to study the new co-operatives. In June I was kindly invited by Camila Piñeiro Harnecker, a professor … Keep reading »
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Bolivia’s Mine Nationalization of South American Silver in Mallku Khota
On July 7th, 2012 the Bolivian police launched a rescue operation to recover hostages that were being detained by some indigenous community members opposed to South American Silver’s exploration operations … Keep reading »
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Overture: The Conductor and the Conducted
The following is an excerpt from Michael Lebowitz’s new book, The Contradictions of “Real Socialism”: the Conductor and the Conducted, Monthly Review Press, 2012. It is posted with the kind … Keep reading »
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The Jackson Plan: A Struggle for Self-Determination, Participatory Democracy, and Economic Justice
A major progressive initiative is underway in Jackson, Mississippi. This initiative demonstrates tremendous promise and potential in making a major contribution toward improving the overall quality of life of the … Keep reading »
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The Euro Crisis and the European Fiscal Pact
The following Bullet is from an important speech by Sahra Wagenknecht [translated by Samuel Putinja], newly elected co-vice president and important theoretician of the German radical party Die Linke, during … Keep reading »
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Planning the Next Six Years of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
Planning the detail of the transition and revolution toward a socialist and more just society, from community and worker organization, to consciousness building, to production and distribution systems, to combating … Keep reading »
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The Fraser Institute’s Global Petroleum Survey
Near the end of June 2012 the Fraser Institute released their latest survey of the oil and gas industry. They reported that 623 managers and executives from 529 oil and … Keep reading »
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Haiti’s Earthquake Victims Step Up Demands For Housing
The plight of some 400,000 Haitians still living under tarps and tents since the January 12, 2010 earthquake has surged into the streets and headlines in recent weeks, highlighting one … Keep reading »
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A Brief Sketch of the Politics of Austerity
In view of the 2008-09 economic meltdown, some on the left felt that the global and neoliberal agenda dominant since the 1979-81 economic crisis would be jettisoned in order to … Keep reading »