Category: USA
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FIFA and the United States: The Russian Connection
On May 27th the United States Department of Justice issued a 47-count indictment against nine International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) officials and five executives of FIFA-affiliated sports management firms. … Keep reading »
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Neoliberalism and the Far Right
Toronto — 24 September 2014. Presentations by: Greg Albo is co-editor of Socialist Register. Bill Fletcher Jr is co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor.
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The U.S. Still Decides the Future of Capitalism
Not the G20, and Not the BRICS Nations International attention has been diverted away from this year’s G20 meetings in Australia by the declaration from the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, … Keep reading »
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The Working Class and Left Politics: Back on the American Radar
The American political system, so highly polarized between conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats, has experienced in the last year some interesting changes on the left-hand margin of the national political … Keep reading »
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The U.S. Shutdown is the Latest in this ‘Dysfunctional’ Relationship Saga
Now that the latest standoff between the U.S. treasury and Congress is over, it may be helpful to put it in some historical perspective. Indeed, the outcome brings to mind … Keep reading »
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AFL-CIO Convention: Leaving Existing Members Behind?
As American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) leaders packed up to leave Los Angeles last Wednesday, they basked in the glow of favourable media coverage of … Keep reading »
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Obama’s Second Term: Following Angela Merkel in the Oval Office?
A debt crisis in Europe, an electoral campaign in the United States, and Canada watching from the sidelines; this is how the trans-Atlantic world was depicted in the media over … Keep reading »
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U.S. Election: Sawant, Stein, and Post-2012 Left Strategy
With more than 16,000 votes (a whopping 28 per cent of the vote), the campaign of Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant in Washington’s 43rd legislative district is a bright beacon of … Keep reading »
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The U.S. Democratic Party and the Left
Max Bohnel (MB): Let’s talk about the Democratic Party and the left in the United States. The Democrats have held their party’s nomination convention and partly due to Mitt Romney’s … Keep reading »
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Right-Wing Populism and the Republican Party
A Conversation with Ingar Solty and Max Bohnel on the Republican National Convention From August 27 to 30th, the Republican National Convention (RNC) took place in Tampa, Florida, where the party … Keep reading »
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A Brief Sketch of the Politics of Austerity
In view of the 2008-09 economic meltdown, some on the left felt that the global and neoliberal agenda dominant since the 1979-81 economic crisis would be jettisoned in order to … Keep reading »
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The Left’s Responses to the Crisis in Europe and North America
Toronto — 1 December 2011. Moderated by Greg Albo, featuring: Leo Panitch is a political economist and theorist based at York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of Socialist Register. His … Watch video »