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Reform of Quebec’s Workplace Health-and-Safety Regime: “Social Partnership” or Class Struggle?
Last January, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ – National Institute of Public Health) published a report on non-traumatic musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). These are pains and other … Keep reading »
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Biden Continues the US Conflict With China Through the Quad
On March 12, the heads of government of four countries, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and the United States President … Keep reading »
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The Struggle for Water Justice is a Struggle for Gender and Racial Justice
The essay is published in honour of World Water Day, which has been held every year on March 22 since 1993. The goal of this day is to celebrate water … Keep reading »
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Is Inflation a Threat?
Many conservative economists and policy-makers, not least the C. D. Howe Institute and its corporate allies, are sounding the alarm about potential inflation in the opinion pages of the Globe … Keep reading »
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Ethiopia: Between Famine and Military Stalemate
During the liberation war from the mid-seventies to the early 1990s, Paulos Tesfagiorgis was head of the Eritrean Relief Agency (ERA), the central organism that organized the provision of goods … Keep reading »
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Closing the Enforcement Gap: The Pandemic and Precarious Employment
As of March 15th, Ontario will have spent a full year in some form of lockdown. More than 22,000 Ontarians have died from COVID-19, hundreds of thousands of jobs have … Keep reading »
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The Responsibility of Revolutionary Intellectuals in Building Socialism
When we talk about intellectuals, we have to recognize, of course, that there are many varieties of intellectual. So, let me be specific. I’m not talking about traditional intellectuals nor … Keep reading »
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Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
“They have discovered smart weapons. We have discovered something more important: people think and feel” — Fidel Castro. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the failure of most Western capitalist countries … Keep reading »
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Republican Theocracy or the End of Neoliberalism?
“QAnon Fears That Greene’s Obsession with Jewish Space Lasers Is Distracting Her from Battling Baby-Eating Cannibals”! In an emergency meeting of QAnon elders, the conspiracy theorists issued a communiqué warning … Keep reading »
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What’s In a Name-Change?
Shernett Martin says her latest impetus for activism came with the murder of George Floyd, who died last May with the knee of a Minneapolis police officer on his neck. … Keep reading »
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Beyond McFeminism: The Socialist Origins of IWD in Canada
When a California McDonald’s marked International Women’s Day (IWD) in 2018 by inverting its big M to a W, some happy meal consumers tweeted that it should stick to hamburgers … Keep reading »
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International Women’s Day: A Militant Celebration
This proposal for an International Women’s Day, made at the Second International Women’s Conference at Copenhagen in 1910, appeared in the women’s magazine of the German Social Democratic Party, Die … Keep reading »