Category: Public Goods
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Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education
Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the media, and the concentration … Keep reading »
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SR 2025: Openings and Closures. Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads
Since the 2016 upsurge in enthusiasm for electoral organizing and party-building, the terrain has shifted. It was not so long ago that a new wave of democratic socialist organizing exploded … Watch video »
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Nurse-Patient Ratios: Saving Lives and Rebuilding Nurses’ Morale
“I have anxiety and feelings of guilt that I should have done more, but I can’t. I can only do so much.” A new academic study is proposing a bold … Keep reading »
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Health Inequalities and Capitalism in Canada
Excerpted and adapted from Health and Health Care Inequities: A Critical Political Economy Perspective (Chapter 6), Fernwood Publishing, 2025. See video of booklaunch in Toronto. Drawing inspiration from Engels (1845), … Keep reading »
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Booklaunch: Health and Health Care Inequities
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to host the Toronto launch of Health and Health Care Inequities by author and healthcare worker Arnel Borras. The book provides … Watch video »
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Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education
Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history. Keep reading »
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The Ontario Healthcare Crisis
This article is based on a chapter in the upcoming new book Against the People: How Ford Nation is Dismantling Ontario edited by Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli. The book … Keep reading »
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Ford Government Plays Politics with Primary Healthcare
No matter how anyone tries to spin the numbers, the actual data from sources not tainted by politics show that more than a million Ontarians have lost their family doctor … Keep reading »
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Education for Acquiescence… Meanwhile, Back in Canada
Donald Trump looms over current events like a volatile bag of gas: Make Canada America’s 51st state. Take Greenland and Panama by force. Round up and deport millions of illegal … Keep reading »
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Assisting Death Without Supporting Life
The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) has taken a position with regard to Canada’s system of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) that is of great importance for those who approach … Keep reading »
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Donald Trump and Education for Acquiescence
In a Donald Trump administration replete with billionaire donors, hucksters, hardline right-wing contributors to the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, warriors against the woke “Deep State,” and nominees facing sexual … Keep reading »
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Neoliberalism’s Plague: The Erosion of Conscience in Education
Neoliberalism is a systemic force of political, economic, and cultural violence, fostering despair while obliterating any vision of justice, solidarity, or care. Keep reading »