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Glasgow COP26 and Beyond: Climate Justice Advocacy in the Glasgow Agreement
The Paris Climate Agreement and subsequent United Nations follow-up conferences have not taken seriously the ecological crisis now unfolding. Not only does prominent scientist James Hanson describe its tokenistic measures … Keep reading »
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The National Strike in Colombia: A Trade Union Perspective
For the past month and a half, Colombia has been gripped by social and political upheaval on a level unparalleled in the past half century. On 28 April, a national … Keep reading »
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Laurentian University Insolvency Reflects a Structural Crisis in Ontario’s Neoliberal University System
Ontario governments have reduced their public grants for university operating revenues from a level at about 80% in 1980 to around 50% in 2004, and to only 38% in 2017. Keep reading »
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Anti-Privatization Movements in the Global South: P3s and Women's Human Rights
On March 29, 2021, we caught up with Corina Rodriguez Enriquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, researchers with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) “a network of feminist … Keep reading »
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How a US Congressman Took on the US Blockade Against Venezuela
On a cold winter day in February 2019, activists gathered in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, to denounce the attempted US-backed coup in Venezuela. More than two years later, in the wake … Keep reading »
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What Really Happened at the Winnipeg Public Meeting Labeled Antisemitic?
Proponents of the Working Definition of Antisemitism championed by the International Holocaust Memorial Alliance (IHRA-WDA) insist that their definition is aspirational, not legally binding, and meant only to rally opposition … Keep reading »
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The Modern Tecumseh and the Future of the US Left
The following essay is not an academic research paper. Neither is it a biography. It draws from the life of Tecumseh and lessons that I believe are useful for the … Keep reading »
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On the Authoritarian Turn of Global Capital and its Contradictions in the USA
There’s a tendency within certain factions of the US left to regard the case of former US president Donald Trump as an ‘anomaly’. In dealing with other personifications of capital, … Keep reading »
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The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save our Earth
Indigenous people have been fighting to survive for centuries. Recently, their struggles have become more militant, more global, and less isolated, aligning with other anti-racist and anti-colonial movements, and leading … Keep reading »
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Canada and Economic Sanctions Against Cuba: An Open Letter to Marc Garneau
June 21st, 2021 The Honourable Marc Garneau Minister of Foreign Affairs Global Affairs Canada 125 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON, Canada Dear Minister Garneau, Re: June 23rd United Nations General Assembly … Keep reading »
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Irregular War and the Mafia in Turkey
The subject of the film On the Waterfront, released in 1954, is the struggle of workers with mafia organizations trying to suppress the growing dockers’ movement in the US. In … Keep reading »
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How Many Strikes Are There in the USA?
The number of strikes in the United States is a question with obvious importance to labor activists, yet there is no readily accessible answer. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) … Keep reading »