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Building Back Better or Return to Austerity?
The COVID-19 pandemic is ebbing. Governments have amassed unprecedented debts in responding to this public health threat. Soon a choice must be made as to which direction we follow: build … Keep reading »
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The Meaning of Macron: Lessons from the Fifth Republic
France has always had a slippery status within comparative political economy. Once upheld as an ideal model of a planned capitalist economy during the Les Trente Glorieuses of the postwar … Keep reading »
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The Dangerous Turn in the Arms Race in the Pacific
On 16 September 2021, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the President of the United States of America, announced an enhanced trilateral security … Keep reading »
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In the Wake of the Pandemic: The Rebirth of Climate Mobilizations
One-hundred-thousand students strike. Fifteen-to-twenty thousand demonstrate in Quebec. More than 110,000 students in Quebec went on strike September 24, according to the Coalition étudiante pour un virage environnemental et social (CEVES … Keep reading »
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Hybrid Learning Is Not Learning: Cuts, and Educational Inequalities in Ontario
“Hybrid learning is not learning. It is a cheap cover-up for the fact that this government abandoned students in their time of need.” — Deborah Buchanan-Walford, Teacher. Let’s clear up … Keep reading »
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The Struggle for Development: The Labouring Classes in Turkey
The below is drawn from the preface for the newly published Turkish edition of The Struggle for Development, first published in 2017. The original edition aimed to root development thinking … Keep reading »
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Canada: No Change
Canada’s Liberal Party prime minister Justin Trudeau has managed to get re-elected for the third time in the snap general election he called. The Liberals won or were leading in … Keep reading »
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Indigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear what he wanted to … Keep reading »
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Social Justice Must Include Arts Funding
A new report on the solidarity economy details how investments in culture can support economic and racial justice. Keep reading »
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Norway Turns Left
It was evident by about midnight on Monday, September 13, that the Left bloc, spearheaded by the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet), was comfortably bagging an important victory in Norway’s parliamentary elections. … Keep reading »
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Slave or Protagonist? The Worker in Capital
Think of the worker in Marx’s Capital. He sells his capacity to work as a commodity to the capitalist. In the relation of “supremacy and subordination” of capital over wage-labourers … Keep reading »
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Call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Thousands of academics have urged governments to negotiate an international treaty to tackle the climate crisis at its source: fossil fuels. Keep reading »