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As UK Premier Polishes his ‘Brand Rishi’ Image, the Country Slides Into Recession
When British Conservative Party MPs anointed Rishi Sunak, in October this year, as their new prime minister, he effectually came to power without people having the chance to vote. He … Keep reading »
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Back to Year Zero of the 1979 Iranian Revolution: The ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ Revolt
The time seems to be ripe for the women and the Kurds to write the last year of the Islamic State’s history through rewriting the year Zero of the Revolution. … Keep reading »
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The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing
Renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuel energy – it’s adding to it. Keep reading »
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University of California Comes to a Standstill as Academic Workers Strike
A militant labor strike by workers at ten UC campuses comes after the state university system failed to offer compensation commensurate to the cost of living in California. Keep reading »
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Did Someone Say Housing Supply? A View from Toronto
It is impossible to deny that we are experiencing a housing crisis in Canada, and a particularly acute one in major metropolitan regions such as Toronto. Evidence of this crisis … Keep reading »
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Building a Labour Movement to Take on the Billionaire Class
Joe Burns’ new book, Class Struggle Unionism, reads like pamphlet, with a clear call to transform the union movement in the US (although it is still applicable to Canada). The … Keep reading »
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Defending Palestinian Rights Is Not Antisemitism: The Bogus Attack on Joel Harden
Ontario New Democratic Party MPP Joel Harden has become the latest target of ongoing efforts to silence critics of Israel by smearing them with accusations of antisemitism. Antisemitism needs to … Keep reading »
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The Wages of Our Discontent
It’s clear that, if things continue along the current path, inflation for this year (8%), will be too big to be compensated by unions bargaining for higher wages. Keep reading »
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Morbid Symptoms, Premature Obituaries: The American Empire
Globalization, which now confronts us as a locked-in inevitability, looked quite different in the first half of the 20th century. Then, in the face of the horrors of two world … Keep reading »
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Rebellion Against the Legalized Robbery
The following commentary was written by Marxist economist, politician and former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis. He follows the first part of the debate “Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and … Keep reading »
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Organizing Under and Against Apartheid: The New Unions in Palestine
The Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions (the New Unions) started as a small union organizing workers in the agricultural sector, known as the Union of Workers Associations in the … Keep reading »
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We 8 Billions, Their $215 Trillion
As expropriative, exploitative agriculture, industry, and militarization have reduced science to dependent positivist-mechanism, human biological reproduction has expanded enormously. Narrow growth priorities have left the complex forms of reproduction required … Keep reading »