Category: Social Movements
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Spain: Popular Resistance Delivers Results
“Resisting is pointless,” we hear endlessly repeated. “So many years of protest but the crisis continues, why bother?” insist others, inoculating us with apathy and resignation. “Protests could lead to … Keep reading »
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Building New Parties or Building Direct Democracy?
Vancouver — 2 November 2013. This forum was part of the 2013 World Peace Forum in Vancouver. Video from other workshops can be found on pasifik.ca website. Moderated by Ingo … Watch video »
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What Drives Gentrification?
The gentrification of a neighborhood often produces conflicting impressions on residents and non-residents. On the one hand, the area seems safer than in the past, houses are increasingly renovated, and … Keep reading »
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A Flawed Freedom
Has the time come when it might be possible to move past the well-deserved praise-song phase of the marking of Nelson Mandela’s death in order to strike a more careful … Keep reading »
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Solidarity Saved Me from Hitler: Now it Must Save Palestine
The following talk was given by Suzanne Weiss to Solidarity for Palestine Human Rights at the University of Western Ontario on November 20, 2013. Her talk examines Canada’s insertion into … Keep reading »
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The Scandalization of Politics: On FordLisi, HarperDuffy, and a Few Others
We are gripped by scandal. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is implicated in a top-level cover up of illegal expense claims by one his own foot soldiers: now-suspended Senator … Keep reading »
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After the Evictions: The U.S. Occupy Movement Struggling at the Front Lines of the Crisis
Three years after the financial meltdown of 2008, the U.S. Occupy movement opened the possibility for a left regroupment against resurgent neoliberalism. Yet the forceful eviction from the squares just … Keep reading »
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What Future for Social Democracy?
On 9 September 2013, a red-green alliance led by the social democratic Labour Party lost the Norwegian general elections. Only two weeks later, the German Social Democrats (SPD) only came … Keep reading »
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Blowing Up The CFS?
I would first off like to say that until very recently I have never been in a student union that was part of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). I … Keep reading »
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France: One year after the Sarkozy defeat
Toronto — 8 August 2013. Part 1: François Hollande and his Socialist Party came to power following presidential and legislative elections in May-June 2012. While the defeat of hard-right president … Watch video »
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German Politicians Take Aim at the Euro
German voters are heading to the ballot box on September 22. The re-election of incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel seems certain. The latest polls saw her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party … Keep reading »
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SYRIZA: The Great Social and Political Movement of Subversion
Political Resolution, First Congress of SYRIZA 1 The Conference of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is a continuity and a breakthrough in its course, which started in 2000, continued … Keep reading »