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The Amazon Strike: Performative or Substantive?
The world has radically changed over the past four-plus decades. Unions haven’t. Or at least they haven’t changed nearly enough to match what they’re up against. In this context, unionizing … Keep reading »
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Building Up Germany’s Die Linke After the Election!
Through anti-fascist and ecological class politics, Die Linke can become Germany’s strongest party to the left of centre Keep reading »
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Trump’s Trade War and Canadian Workers
The 25% tariffs imposed on exports from Canada and Mexico by the US administration of Donald Trump effective March 4 (with an exception of 10% tariffs for Canadian oil and … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Auto-Tariffs: Form Formal Sovereignty to Substantive Sovereignty
The danger confronting Canadians is not President Trump’s on-and-off tariff toggle. That’s only a symptom. The more significant threat is our deep integration with, and hence dependence on, the US. … Keep reading »
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Global Alignments in the Palestinian Issue: The Most Unequal Confrontation in History
It could be said that the Palestinian struggle is one of the most unequal confrontations in history because the Palestinians are not only facing the present ultra-right Israeli state and … Keep reading »
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Israel’s West Bank Escalation Underscores the Urgent Need for a Full Arms Embargo
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) emphatically demands that Canada urgently impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel amid its current military escalation and ethnic cleansing … Keep reading »
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Exposing the Big Con: The False Promise of Artificial Intelligence
The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell artificial intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all. And to this point they have been … Keep reading »
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Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education
Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history. Keep reading »
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Interprovincial Trade Barriers – A Solution Looking for a Problem?
Canada struggles with the threats from the United States that include imposing not only high tariffs, but even the unimaginable – annexing the country. In a highly defensive mode, the … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Threats, Canadian Challenges
Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau once said that the Canada-US relationship resembled a mouse sleeping with an elephant: “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I … Keep reading »
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Ban EU Trade and Business with Israel’s Illegal Settlements
Dear President von der Leyen, We, the undersigned human rights organizations, trade unions, and civil society groups urge the European Commission to take action to ban all trade and business … Keep reading »
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Climate Finance and the Limits of Market Fundamentalism
On December 18, 2024, we spoke with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, a senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), a research institute that contributes to the debates across Canada … Keep reading »