Category: Public Goods
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Canadian Health Care: Privatization and Gendered Labour
Priscillia Lefebvre is a collaborative Ph.D. student at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology/Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Pat Armstrong is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies … Keep reading »
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Tax Cuts, Privatization and Deregulation Disguised as Public Policy
Where are we going as a society? We once proudly invested in our schools, pools, libraries, daycare, healthcare, roads, electricity, water and sewers. Today we’re busy slashing social services and … Keep reading »
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The Coming Battle: Healthcare Privatization and the Ontario Election
In the past, capitalists had given many aspects of healthcare a pass in Canada and Ontario. There was a general preference to leave medicare intact from the lower costs it … Keep reading »
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Britain: The Health and Social Care Bill and the Negation of Democracy
In voting, in the British House of Commons, for the third reading of Andrew Lansley‘s Health and Social Care Bill last week MPs voted to replace the National Health Service … Keep reading »
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No TTC Fares on Smog and Heat Alert Days!
Toronto — 6 July 2011. During Extreme Heat Alerts, the City of Toronto counsels people to seek shelter and opens cooling centres across the City. People are at risk of … Watch video »
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Stop Signs
Booklaunch: Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay, with authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler. Watch video »
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The Assault on Public Services
Will Unions Lament the Attacks or Lead a Fightback? We are living one of those historic moments that cry out for rallying the working-class to build new capacities, new solidarities, and … Keep reading »
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What Matters Is What Works
The State and the National Health Service in Scotland and Wales As expert commentators have amply shown, the Coalition’s plan to privatise the National Health Service (NHS) lacks any basis in … Keep reading »
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Global Crisis, Fiscal Restraint and Public-Private Partnerships
Toronto — 10 March 2011. Dr. John Loxley is a professor in the Department of Economics, University of Manitoba. He specializes in International Money and Finance, International Development and Community … Watch video »
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No Fare is Fair
A Roundtable with Members of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly Transit Committee The Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly (GTWA) is a promising new initiative aiming to build a united, non-sectarian, and militant … Keep reading »
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Public Sector Unions and the Consultations for Austerity
Nearly six months have gone since the G20 Summit in Toronto when we supposedly entered what some have referred to as “permanent austerity” – the “new normal” of capitalist social … Keep reading »
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Free Transit and Movement Building
The demonstrations surrounding the G20 summit in Toronto unfolded more or less as scripted. The state spent obscene amounts of public money to install security cameras in Toronto’s streets, build … Keep reading »