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  Maxico part 2: The Fightback

  Mexico: The Murder of a Union and the Rebirth of Class Struggle The Fightback: From Protest to Rebellion? The government’s blitzkrieg attack on the SME has failed to destroy the resistance. … Keep reading »

  Latin America  •  November 26, 2009  •  Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
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  Mexico: The Murder of a Union and the Rebirth of Class Struggle

  Part 1: The New Assault “Brothers, companeros, comrades: we must convert the rage, the anger and the helplessness into superior organization, into unified and convergent projects, into cultivating unity without distinctions … Keep reading »

  Latin America  •  November 25, 2009  •  Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
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  Museum Workers at War

  Precarious Employment and the Public Sector Squeeze The casualization of labour has placed many workers in a position of precariousness forcing them into a state of perpetual insecurity characteristic of the … Keep reading »

  Labour  •  November 24, 2009  •  Priscillia Lefebvre

• Realities Collide at Halifax “War Conference”

  While the world’s top military elites gather inside a fortified hotel to discuss NATO’s future, protesters question the organisation’s legitimacy, secrecy, and the lack of democratic debate about the increasingly … Keep reading »

  War/Peace  •  November 23, 2009  •  Anthony Fenton

• Morbid Symptoms: Current Healthcare Struggles

  Leo Panitch and Colin Leys have just brought out the 2010 annual volume of the Socialist Register, Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism, published by Merlin Press in London, Monthly Review … Keep reading »

  Public Goods  •  November 20, 2009  •  Colin Leys

• Escalation of Afghanistan War: Canada Faces a Fateful Decision

  The United States and its imperialist partners are losing their war of conquest in Afghanistan and a further escalation is required. Canada’s Conservative Party government now faces the thorny problem … Keep reading »

  War/Peace  •  November 18, 2009  •  Roger Annis

• Public Sector Workers: The Recession’s Next Victims?

  I fear that Tom Walkom of the Toronto Star is bang on when he argues that the next victims of the recession will be public sector workers. As he writes: … Keep reading »

  Economy  •  November 16, 2009  •  Andrew Jackson
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  Strike at World’s Largest Nickel Mine

  International solidarity organizes against Vale Inco, 2nd largest transnational mining giant in the world In France’s south Pacific colony of New Caledonia, a small delegation of Vale Inco strikers from … Keep reading »

  Labour  •  November 11, 2009  •  Marc Bonhomme
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  A Real Green Deal

  Thirty-five years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an “alternative corporate plan” to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes. Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman … Keep reading »

  Environment  •  November 10, 2009  •  Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman

• The World Social Forum, A Sustainable Model?

  After a period of remarkable expansion, the process of the World Social Forum (WSF) has stalled. The balance sheet of the most recent big assemblies turns out to be very … Keep reading »

  Social Movements  •  November 9, 2009  •  Pierre Rousset

• Combating Anti-Semitism or Shielding Israel?

  Submission to the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism I am writing this submission as a sociologist, a Jew, and a long-time opponent of all forms of oppression. As a person … Keep reading »

  Anti-Racism  •  November 5, 2009  •  Joanne Naiman

• November 5 Day of Action Called at Critical Time

  The November 5 day of action for a ‘poverty free Ontario,’ that has been called by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), is taking place against a backdrop of major … Keep reading »

  Poverty  •  November 4, 2009  •  John Clarke