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Military Coups are Good for Canadian Business: The Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement
Last week Canadian negotiators met with their Honduran counterparts in Tegucigalpa to discuss a free trade agreement (FTA). Negotiators from the two countries last met in Ottawa in December. According … Keep reading »
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The United Left Alliance and the Rise of Working-Class Politics in Ireland
On Friday February 25th, the Irish people voted in what Fine Gael‘s leader Enda Kenny proclaimed a ‘democratic revolution.’ The results of this election are transformative with the unparalleled decimation … Keep reading »
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How Can We Aid Libya’s Freedom Movement?
The brutal massacres of civilians in Libya at the order of the country’s dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, have shocked the world. His air force has carried out air strikes against unarmed … Keep reading »
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30 Years On: The Toronto Bathhouse Raids and Sexual and Gender Liberation
On February 5, 1981 150 Toronto cops busted into four gay bathhouses and arrested 306 people on charges of being found-ins or keepers of common bawdyhouses. These arrests were deliberately … Keep reading »
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The World Social Forum and the Battle for COP17
In a world plunged ever deeper into an uncivilized global capitalist condition, the World Social Forum (WSF) is a crucial beacon of hope. At its recent gathering in Dakar, Senegal … Keep reading »
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A Period of Revolutionary Fervour
Just a week after the Tunisian revolution, at a conference in Beirut, an astute Egyptian social scientist was asked, would the Tunisian contagion spread to Egypt? And his answer was … Keep reading »
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Failed Reconstruction in Haiti Debated in Canada
The first anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake was marked in Canada by widespread media disclosures concerning the failure of the international relief effort. Reports showed that considerable barriers exist to … Keep reading »
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Tahrir Square: This is What Democracy Looks Like!
“The more late his decision to go away is, the more creative and more beautiful the revolution. So I want him to give us some more time to make a … Keep reading »
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A New American Workers’ Movement Has Begun
Thousands of workers demonstrated at the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin on February 15 and 16 to protest plans by that state’s Republican Governor Scott Walker to take away the … Keep reading »
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The Egyptian Uprising and Workers’ Grievances
It is too early to give an explanation for the Egyptian revolt. Much still needs to be understood about the character and the driving forces behind this sustained mass mobilization, … Keep reading »
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From Cairo to Dakar to Durban, Another World Actually Is Possible!
Last week’s World Social Forum (WSF) in Dakar, Senegal, ended up riotously happy thanks to the eviction of a universally-hated Egyptian Pharoah, after near-debilitating logistical disasters at the event’s outset. … Keep reading »
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The Workers, Middle Class, Military Junta and the Permanent Revolution
Since yesterday (11 February 2011), and actually earlier, middle-class activists have been urging Egyptians to suspend the protests and return to work, in the name of patriotism, singing some of … Keep reading »