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Did Someone Say Housing Supply? A View from Toronto
It is impossible to deny that we are experiencing a housing crisis in Canada, and a particularly acute one in major metropolitan regions such as Toronto. Evidence of this crisis … Keep reading »
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Building a Labour Movement to Take on the Billionaire Class
Joe Burns’ new book, Class Struggle Unionism, reads like pamphlet, with a clear call to transform the union movement in the US (although it is still applicable to Canada). The … Keep reading »
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Defending Palestinian Rights Is Not Antisemitism: The Bogus Attack on Joel Harden
Ontario New Democratic Party MPP Joel Harden has become the latest target of ongoing efforts to silence critics of Israel by smearing them with accusations of antisemitism. Antisemitism needs to … Keep reading »
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The Wages of Our Discontent
It’s clear that, if things continue along the current path, inflation for this year (8%), will be too big to be compensated by unions bargaining for higher wages. Keep reading »
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Morbid Symptoms, Premature Obituaries: The American Empire
Globalization, which now confronts us as a locked-in inevitability, looked quite different in the first half of the 20th century. Then, in the face of the horrors of two world … Keep reading »
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Rebellion Against the Legalized Robbery
The following commentary was written by Marxist economist, politician and former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis. He follows the first part of the debate “Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and … Keep reading »
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Organizing Under and Against Apartheid: The New Unions in Palestine
The Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions (the New Unions) started as a small union organizing workers in the agricultural sector, known as the Union of Workers Associations in the … Keep reading »
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We 8 Billions, Their $215 Trillion
As expropriative, exploitative agriculture, industry, and militarization have reduced science to dependent positivist-mechanism, human biological reproduction has expanded enormously. Narrow growth priorities have left the complex forms of reproduction required … Keep reading »
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Women, Life, Liberty: A Protest Promising a Revolution to End All Oppression and Exploitation
The song Baraye (For) composed by the singer Shervin Hajipour has been described as “the anthem” of the “Women, Life, Liberty” protests in Iran. Hajipour wrote the lyrics using a … Keep reading »
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Health Coalition Kicks off Campaign to Save Public Hospitals
The Ontario Health Coalition released a brief on October 26 charging that the Doug Ford government lied to the public about its privatization of Ontario’s public hospital services. The Coalition … Keep reading »
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Pandemic Lessons for Rebuilding Canada’s Welfare State
As the threat of a recession looms large, it is critical that we push for urgent reforms to our social protection systems. Keep reading »
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Pakistan: Dangerous Interregnum, Catastrophic Equilibrium?
On 3rd November, while leading a Long March to the federal capital demanding fresh elections, former Prime Minister Imran Khan was the target of an assassination attempt. Thankfully, given Pakistan’s … Keep reading »