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Pension Plans Should Not Invest in Companies That Harm Working People
Of all the gains unions have made for workers, the ability to retire with dignity and a pension is perhaps the most valued. Last year employers and employees in Canada … Keep reading »
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Open Letter: We’re Stepping Up
Join Us for a Day to Halt This Climate Crisis Naomi Klein, Bill McGKibben, and others On 20 September [through to September 27], at the request of the young people who have … Keep reading »
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Canadian Unions and the Student-Led Global Climate Strike
A week of student-led global strike actions to address the climate change crisis, under the banner FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike, was kicked off this past Friday with actions across the world. This … Keep reading »
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Take the Plant, Save the Planet
The Case For Nationalization and Conversion of the Oshawa GM Plant It is a tragic irony that General Motors (GM) chose its hundredth anniversary in Oshawa to announce the December 2019 … Keep reading »
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Take It Over: The Struggle for Green Production in Oshawa
In November 2018, Detroit-based General Motors dealt a staggering blow to 2,700 Canadian workers when it announced plans leading to the closure of a key automotive assembly plant in Oshawa, … Keep reading »
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The Neoliberal University
Opposition grows to performance-based funding model for post-secondary education in Ontario Announced in the Ontario Budget, the Ford government’s reckless new market-based approach to funding postsecondary education will fundamentally compromise the … Keep reading »
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The Brexit Crisis and British Labour
Two Speeches from the 2019 TUC Congress Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leader of the UK Labour Party, speaking at the 151st annual TUC Congress in Brighton. Congress, thank you for that warm … Keep reading »
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As Bolsonaro incinerates the Amazon, urgent action is needed for climate justice
Did South Africa need another high-profile reminder of climate chaos, after the Cape Town drought in 2015 to 2018; the two cyclones in March to April that ravaged Mozambique, Malawi … Keep reading »
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The United Auto Workers and the Big Three Automakers: A Tale of Corruption
What follows is a somewhat complex tale of what happens when a labor union, structured to be unaccountable to the rank-and-file membership, embraces a system of labor-management cooperation rather than … Keep reading »
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Make UK Public Transport Free
It’s time for radical proposals to rebuild Britain’s social fabric and combat the climate crisis. Here’s one: make public transport free. Keep reading »
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Ecosocialism and Just Transition
Climate change requires major societal change. But how do we ensure this transformation is done in a fair and just manner? John Bellamy Foster – a renowned environmental sociologist and … Keep reading »
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‘Dual Power,’ Then… and Now?
Global capitalist crisis, impending ecological disaster, and new responses by popular movements in some regions, particularly in Latin America, inspire radical thinking about the need to go “beyond capital.” But … Keep reading »