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After the Election 2011: Building Our Movements on Shifting Ground
The federal election of 2011 drastically shifted the terrain of parliamentary politics in Canada. With 39.6% of the vote, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives won 167 of 308 seats in Parliament, meaning … Keep reading »
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The Federal NDP’s Electoral Breakthrough in Quebec: A Challenge to Progressives in Canada
If Jack Layton’s election-night speech to his Toronto supporters is an indication of what lies ahead, the New Democratic Party (NDP) is going to have a hard time coming to … Keep reading »
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Unionism, Austerity, and the Left
An interview with Sam Gindin Andony Melathopoulos (AM): Clearly these are not very good times for public sector unions, not only in Canada but worldwide. What characterizes the current situation? How … Keep reading »
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Progress in Bolivia: A Reply to Jeff Webber
Six years after Bolivians elected their first Indigenous-led government, their ongoing struggle for national and social liberation remains a subject of debate and disagreement among socialists around the world. Have … Keep reading »
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What Matters Is What Works
The State and the National Health Service in Scotland and Wales As expert commentators have amply shown, the Coalition’s plan to privatise the National Health Service (NHS) lacks any basis in … Keep reading »
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And They Call This a Recovery?
The strut of confidence is gone and the jitters are back. A flurry of dreadful statistics at the end of April made sure of that. On April 26 came the … Keep reading »
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Anti-Austerity Struggles and the Canadian Election
The economic crisis that whipped across the advanced capitalist countries in 2007-09 has now moved into a phase of unprecedented government austerity. Rather than spelling the end of neoliberalism, the … Keep reading »
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Montreal Conference Rallies Support for Rights of Nature
Bolivia marked Earth Day (April 22) this year by formulating the Law of Mother Earth, which – when adopted – will establish eleven new rights for nature, including the rights … Keep reading »
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The Path for Venezuela Cannot Be Neoliberalism or Stalinism
Edgardo Lander is Professor of Social Sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. Lander is one of the leading thinkers and writers on the left in Venezuela, both … Keep reading »
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Using Libya to Abort the Arab Spring
We said on 18 January in our article “The Arab Spring of Democracy” that all Arab states share the same characteristics, and from this deduction that the same conditions will … Keep reading »
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Rebuilding the Left in a Time of Crisis
Leo Panitch is a political economist and theorist based at York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of Socialist Register. His most recent book is In and Out of Crisis: The … Keep reading »
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‘Beyond capitalism’?: Québec Solidaire Launches Debate On Its Program For Social Transform
At a convention held in Montreal on March 25-27, Québec solidaire (QS) concluded the second round in the process of adopting its program. More than 350 delegates from party associations … Keep reading »