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The Public Sector: Searching for a Focus
As capitalism begins to emerge from the ‘Great Financial Crisis,’ there is good reason for working people to refrain from celebration. Though the roots of the crisis were in the … Keep reading »
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Anti-Tory Then and Anti-Tory Now
So David Cameron is Britain’s new prime minister. His accession to 10 Downing Street is reminiscent of another May election when the smug elite organized in the Conservative Party outpolled … Keep reading »
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New Wave of Repression Targets Opponents of Honduran Coup
Both the Canadian and U.S. governments have praised the January 27 elections in Honduras as a major step forward toward a return to democracy and national reconciliation. Yet the reality … Keep reading »
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Cochabamba Eyewitness: A Great Boost to Ecosocialism
I attended the alternative Climate Conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba as part of an eight-person Quebec activist delegation. I came back convinced that we witnessed a turning point … Keep reading »
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Cutting Public Debt: Economic Science or Class War?
In The Bullet No. 345, Ingo Schmidt showed how the credit rating agencies have sparked an assault by international bondholders on the sovereign debt of Greece, where workers are being … Keep reading »
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Celebrating and Struggling This May Day
The Long, Hard Haul at the Vale Inco Strike The fight of popular and workers’ movements across the world against neoliberal capitalism in the current period is not an easy one. … Keep reading »
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Beware the Canadian Austerity Model
Paul Martin was Canada’s Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2003, then served a short term as Prime Minister (December 2003 to February 2006). He spoke on Canada’s 1990s debt … Keep reading »
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Cochabamba: Climate Justice Has a New Program and New Hope for Victory
On April 22, a mass international assembly in Cochabamba, Bolivia, adopted a charter for action to protect our planet from ecological devastation. Following the failed climate negotiations in Copenhagen in … Keep reading »
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A State of Terror: The Death of Human Rights in the Philippines
“We continue to work because of hope for freedom, and trust in the capacity of the people to unite and change the system of oppression” — Congressman Neri Colmenares of … Keep reading »
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Greece: Driven into Crisis
Neoliberal order reigns in the world. Stock markets are recovering from the crash in the fall of 2008. Private banks are no longer weighed down by bad loans that were … Keep reading »
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May First: High Noon in Nepal
“You must come to Kathmandu with shroud cloth wrapped around your heads and flour in your bags. It will be our last battle. If we succeed, we survive, else it … Keep reading »
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Who Pays for the Crisis?
The ‘Special Diet’ Cut – An Injury to One… The Liberal Government of Ontario’s decision in the spring Budget to eliminate the ‘Special Diet’ will remove the one means by which … Keep reading »