Category: Economy
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Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest Tariffs, Seen from South Africa
US President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own … Keep reading »
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‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call
An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US President Donald Trump makes Canada ‘an offer it can’t refuse’. What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Tariffs: Fake Problems, Fake Solutions
Trump is mad. Mad at the world. Mad at anyone who challenges him. Mad in his actions. Tariffs, a tax on goods coming into the US, are Trump’s weapon of … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Tariff Policy: Disciplining Capital by Granting Exemptions
An important motivation for President Trump’s tariff escalation is often overlooked: tariffs serve Trump as a domestic and foreign policy instrument of power. Keep reading »
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From Bad to Worse: The New Political Setting and Challenges for the Canadian Left
The Legitimation Crisis and Authoritarian State The current political conjuncture can be defined by an unfolding sense, in Canada and around the world, that neoliberal policies have failed and even capitalism … Keep reading »
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From Bad to Worse: The New Political Setting and Challenges for the Canadian Left
The current political conjuncture can be defined by an unfolding sense, in Canada and around the world, that neoliberal policies have failed and even capitalism itself is not working. This … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Tariffs Seen from Contradictory Angles
Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targets announced on “Liberation Day,” April 2, are sustained, a full-blown economic … Keep reading »
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The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method
Headwinds have emerged in Donald Trump’s rush to derail and transform the state and place the US Empire on a radically new – but no less oppressive – footing. This … Keep reading »
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Trade War and Attacks on National Sovereignty: How Unions Can Fight Back
The United States has launched a full-scale attack on our economy and our very existence as a sovereign country. Canadians have responded by boycotting US products, buying Canadian, and cancelling … Keep reading »
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Canada-US Trade War: A Reality Check
In the very first month of his second term, US President-elect, Donald Trump unleashed American imperialism by openly expressing his desire to bring Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal, and the … Keep reading »
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The Trump Tariff Challenge and the Rule of Capital
As Canadians sift through the rubble of Trump’s latest salvo and steel themselves for the next in the back-and-forth of the US-Canada trade war, there is increasing interest, especially on … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Trade War and Canadian Workers
The 25% tariffs imposed on exports from Canada and Mexico by the US administration of Donald Trump effective March 4 (with an exception of 10% tariffs for Canadian oil and … Keep reading »