Category: Social Movements
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The Student Movement: Radical Priorities
The student movement in Quebec is an incredibly important development, with implications that reach well beyond provincial borders. The movement emerged in response to a 75 per cent increase in … Keep reading »
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Austerity in the Mind Factory
Educational struggles are breaking out all over. In March 2012, over 200,000 Quebec students are waging a general strike against tuition increases and have faced brutal police repression. British Columbia … Keep reading »
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Massive Demonstrations Support Quebec Students Striking Against Fee Hikes
Tens of thousands of students and their supporters marched in major Quebec cities yesterday, March 18, in opposition to the Jean Charest government’s promise to impose a 75 per cent … Keep reading »
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Haiti: Solidarity and Social Justice
Toronto — 17 February 2012. Moderated by Kevin Edmonds. Roger Annis, coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network in Vancouver and director of a ten-day fact-finding and solidarity mission to … Watch video »
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An ‘Excess of Democracy’?
What Two Generations of Radicals Can Learn From Each Other The ability of the Occupy movement to create platforms outside our closed political system to force open a debate on inequality, … Keep reading »
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Occupy Talks: What Gravy Train?
Toronto — 18 January 2012. Over the last several decades, inequality has been steadily increasing, with the 1% enjoying ever higher concentrations of wealth, while members of the 99% experience … Watch video »
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A Poisoned Chalice: Liberation, ANC-Style
There is good and obvious reason to celebrate the long history of the African National Congress (ANC): the organization’s marked dedication over one hundred years to the cause of the … Keep reading »
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Reclaiming the South African Dream
During the 20th century, South Africa’s national struggle occupied an iconic place in the global political imagination. International opposition to apartheid came together in the heady days of socialist revolutions, … Keep reading »
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Talking About Dissent in Turkey? Hush, Hush!
With the successes of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi or AKP) in three consecutive general elections in Turkey (getting 34% of the total votes in 2002, … Keep reading »
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Uniting Struggles: Critical Social Research In Critical Times
Ottawa — 2 December 2011. Presentations by: Randall Germain: Power, the State and Global Politics After the Great Freeze: Towards a New Articulation? Priscillia Lefebvre: The Ottawa and Gatineau Museum … Watch video »
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Toronto Emergency Public Warning
Toronto — 8 December 2011. This is a message from the Emergency Public Warning System. This is not a test. Open class war will break out in Toronto in early … Watch video »
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#OccupyTTC
Toronto — 5 December 2011. View short 3-minute version. A group of people from OccupyToronto paid their fare and rode the subway cars of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). They … Watch video »