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Bringing Precarity Home: Digitized Piece Work and the Fiction of Flexibility
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a global transition to digital mediation of work. For some, this has meant work previously done at office desks can now be performed remotely. However … Keep reading »
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Averting Disaster: Declaration of the 5th European Forum of the Left
The crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 across the planet has revealed all the contradictions, limitations and deficiencies of a neoliberal, predatory and unsupportive model of society. Keep reading »
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Increased US Military Spending Means More Militarism, Imperialism, and War
The US Congress is completely divided, Republicans versus Democrats. Except when it comes to the military. Bills for working people can’t be passed. But there’s always money for the generals … Keep reading »
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Citing Wet’suwet’en Law, Hereditary Chiefs evict Coastal GasLink from their Territory
Supporters of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs announced on December 19 that they have reoccupied a worksite on the Coastal GasLink pipeline route in the nation’s territory, in northern British Columbia. … Keep reading »
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Swords into Ploughshares
Simon Black, lead organizer with Labour Against the Arms Trade, speaks to Sam Gindin, former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers (now Unifor), about the promise of repurposing the … Keep reading »
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The Coronavirus Pandemic has Widened Global Inequalities
Confronted with the coronavirus pandemic that started at the end of 2019-beginning of 2020, the governments of long-standing imperialist powers and private pharmaceutical corporations have widened the gap between the Global North and the Global South. Keep reading »
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Starbucks Workers Victorious in Their Fight for a Union
It is hugely significant that even one café out of thousands in the iconic Starbucks coffee chain has beaten back the company’s union-busting tactics to choose collective power in the workplace. Keep reading »
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Whales versus Militarism: Saving or Destroying the World’s Climate?
The US military is famous for being the single largest consumer of petroleum products in the world and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its carbon emissions exceed those released … Keep reading »
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Brazil: The End of Bolsa Familia, Lula’s New Alliance, and Sergio Moro’s bid for the Presidency
At the end of October 2021, the Bolsa Familia social program made payments to Brazilians for the last time since being instituted during the first term of President Lula da … Keep reading »
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‘A Radical Turning Point’? Democracy in Honduras
Twelve years after the coup against Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran people are regaining hope. With her overwhelming victory in the November 28 general elections, Xiomara Castro, Zelaya’s wife and the … Keep reading »
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High School Students Walk Out: Saying Yes to Palestine Solidarity and No to TDSB
Let’s give credit to the roughly 200 brave students who walked out of Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute last month. They were protesting how the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has … Keep reading »
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Why Poorer Nations Aren’t Falling for Green-Washed Imperialism
The world’s wealthiest countries make a big show of fighting climate change without offering poorer countries the finances to switch to renewable energy. Keep reading »