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Won’t Get Fooled Again
Tens of millions of Brazilian progressives spent the three days before the October 2 general elections in an exalted state of semi-nirvana. Two massive polls (with over 12,000 respondents each) … Keep reading »
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While Ontario Struggles, Queen’s Park Stashes Cash
Ontario’s deficit became a surplus last year. The Ford government couldn’t think of a single thing to spend it on. Keep reading »
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Eleven Wrong Ideas About Climate: Eleven answers to topics that hinder the fight against climate change
In various speeches on climate and climate change, we find a large number of commonplace ideas, repeated a thousand times in all tones, which constitute wrong ideas, which lead, voluntarily … Keep reading »
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The New Finance Capital has Blurred the Line Between Industrial and Financial Corporations
Critical scholars and progressive politicians alike have today widely embraced the view that finance is a parasitical and corrosive force on the “real” industrial economy. According to this perspective, ‘financialization’ … Keep reading »
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Brazilian Elections: The Challenges in the Second Round
The general elections underway in Brazil have very different political consequences than the previous ones. In a politically polarized country, the outcome of the polls will decide between two opposing … Keep reading »
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Queen Elizabeth II: Pomp, Pageantry, and the Apology That Never Came
Led by the royals, British colonialists committed every form of cruelty imaginable – those who suffered under the empire and fought it are angry over the homage paid to Elizabeth II. Keep reading »
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Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Minors: a Horror Show
I want you to look at this picture. No, please don’t look away. Look at it carefully. Beyond the huddle of hefty military figures, armed to the teeth with their … Keep reading »
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Huge Cuts in Public Sector Wages Predicted
The Ontario Financial Accountability Office (FAO) says that, with inflation, real wages in the public sector will decline 11.3% over the three year period 2021/2 – 2023/4. This would radically … Keep reading »
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Why Our Electricity Prices Can’t Be Left to Bogus ‘Free Markets’
The so-called electricity markets were created to help private capital, not people. It is time that we wind up such bogus electricity markets and return all such public services to the people, to be run cooperatively for their benefit. Keep reading »
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System Change, Class War, and the WW2 Economic Conversion Experience
The climate crisis has driven our planet into uncharted territory. We are close to breaching critical environmental thresholds, setting in motion destabilizing changes to our global climate system that could … Keep reading »
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Brazil Round One: Bolsonaro Outperforms Expectations
Voters in Brazil will be heading to the polls again on October 30 for a runoff presidential election after failing to reward any candidate with over 50 percent of the … Keep reading »
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Jobs, Inequality and Post-Democracy in Canada
In Fall 2022, it is well worth celebrating some of the recent victories and new efforts at mobilizing by workers in Canada and around the world. In Canada, the Teamsters … Keep reading »