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For Palestinians, There’s No Difference From One Israeli Government to the Next
“We woke up this morning to the invasion of the Jenin refugee camp. To nine Palestinians killed. To the news that the military had gone in disguised as civilians, inside … Keep reading »
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People Want Publicly Run Healthcare
It’s true that the number of uninsured Americans has dropped to an all-time low. But that fact obscures the failures of our patchwork, profit-driven healthcare system. Keep reading »
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Capitalism and Community: The Tragedy of Atomism
Given that the immanent drive and constant tendency of capital is to atomize the working class, what are the effects of this tendency? For the atomized worker, all other workers … Keep reading »
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The US Blockade of Cuba Hurts Medical Patients in Both Countries
The blockade of Cuba limits its ability to share its scientific and technological advances with the rest of the world. Keep reading »
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Deflation Interrupted?
To fully grasp the import and potential staying power of the sudden, dramatic spike in consumer price inflation requires that we briefly step back in time to look at the … Keep reading »
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Cut Police Budgets: Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year
The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington Post’s police shootings database, law … Keep reading »
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The Crisis of the Care Economy in Africa
A country that attains the passing grade on the UNDP’s Africa Care Economy Index is one that has basic minimum legislation and public spend in place to ensure a population … Keep reading »
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Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks
The public sector in the US has been shrinking rapidly since the 1990s as a deluge of privatization has, to various degrees, overtaken many so-called public services and institutions. Public … Keep reading »
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More Cops? Not What Our Communities Need
Listening to Chief Myron Demkiw’s pitch for the 2023 budget request to the Toronto Police Services Board (TPS), it sounded like the rationale for the budgets put together by school … Keep reading »
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The NDP and the Right to Strike
Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently found himself in hot water for removing the right to strike from educational workers, imposing terms and conditions of employment on them, and using the … Keep reading »
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In Memory of G. M. Tamás: I Went to the Nth Degree
G.M. Tamás (November 28, 1948 – January 15, 2023) was a comrade of many socialists in Canada. He served as a guide to political developments in Eastern Europe, and particularly … Keep reading »
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Four Ways the Ford Government is Privatizing Hospitals
Premier Doug Ford wants for-profit surgical clinics – but that is just one area where his government is privatizing hospitals. Unfortunately, there is so much more. The privatized American healthcare … Keep reading »