Contributors
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Carlos Vainer
Carlos Vainer is Professor at the Research in Urban and Regional Planning Institute (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), coordinator of the Urban Conflicts Observatories Network and of the Experimental Nucleus for Conflictual Planning. View all posts »
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Salimah Valiani
Salimah Valiani is a labour researcher and political economist. She has engaged with migrant worker organizations and unions on organizing and global policy issues since 2001. She is the author of Rethinking Unequal Exchange: the global integration of nursing labour markets (University of Toronto Press, 2012). Her research can be found at researchgate.net. View all posts »
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Achin Vanaik
Achin Vanaik is a writer and social activist, a retired professor from the University of Delhi and Delhi-based Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. He is the author of numerous books, including The Painful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy in India. View all posts »
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Vancouver Ecosocialist Group
The Vancouver Ecosocialist Group has been formed by political and social justice activists of varying backgrounds in metropolitan Vancouver. View all posts »
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Vancouver Socialist Forum
Vancouver Socialist Forum is a group of activists committed to organizing forums and educational discussions on topics that impact the lives of working and oppressed people. We aim to build solidarity with social movements around the world and in Canada. View all posts »
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Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis is a Marxist economist, politician and former Finance Minister of Greece (2015). He is the co-founder of DiEM25. View all posts »
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Zwelinzima Vavi
Zwelinzima Vavi is the General Secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU). View all posts »
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Eden Velasco
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Benjamin Velasco
Benjamin Velasco is an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman School of Labor and Industrial Relations, co-convenor of the Alternative Development Program of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies, an online tutor of the Global Labour University Online Academy and a member of the labour group Partido Manggagawa. View all posts »
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André Veloso
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Henry Veltmeyer
Henry Veltmeyer is a professor of international development studies at Saint Mary's University and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book The Answer Is Still No. Voices of Pipeline Resistance. View all posts »
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Petra Veltri
Petra Veltri writes regularly on labour issues from Winnipeg. View all posts »
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Rolando Vergara
Rolando Vergara is a Research Associate with the Latin American Research Institute (LARI). He is a former political prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship and came to Canada as a political refugee. Rolando was a teacher in Chile now works in information technology. View all posts »
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Ria Verjauw
Ria Verjauw is an anti-war activist and active with the Belgian Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons. View all posts »
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Troy Vettese
Troy Vettese is an environmental historian at New York University. He tweets at @TroyVettese. View all posts »
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La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, small and medium size farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. Follow on Twitter. View all posts »
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Marcelo Vieta
Marcelo Vieta recently completed his Ph.D. from York University's Program in Social and Political Thought with a dissertation looking at the innovations, challenges, and political economic conjunctures of Argentina's empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises). He is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Trento's European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE) in Trento, Italy. Marcelo can be reached at: marcelo.vieta@euricse.eu or marcelo@vieta.ca. View all posts »
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Nizar K. Visram
Nizar Visram is Tanzanian writer, currently based in Ottawa, Canada. He can be reached at nizar1941@gmail.com. View all posts »
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Patrick Vitale
Patrick Vitale is a Ph.D. candidate in geography at the University of Toronto and Liaison Officer of CUPE 3902. View all posts »
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Esther Vivas
Esther Vivas is a Spanish journalist and activist. This article appeared on her blog esthervivas.com. View all posts »
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Katja Voigt
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Leah Vosko
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Michael Voss
Michael Voss is a member of the Red-Green Alliance and of the SAP (Socialist Workers’ Party, Danish section of the Fourth International). As a representative of the SAP, he participated in the negotiations that led to the establishment of the RGA. From 1995 to 2006, he worked as a journalist and press officer for the parliamentary group of the RGA. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the SAP. View all posts »