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Building Universal Healthcare in South Africa
| March 23, 2020
Wittingly or unwittingly, the proposal for National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa has created two camps: pro-NHI and anti-NHI. But as I argue in a recent article in the … Keep reading »
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Take the Plant, Save the Planet
On November 26, 2018, General Motors announced a number of plant closures in North America, the largest of which was in Oshawa, Ontario. The Oshawa facility, once the largest auto … Keep reading »
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Detroit Bus Drivers Win Protections Against Virus Through Strike
| March 21, 2020
Detroit bus drivers collectively declared Tuesday morning that they weren’t going to work without safety precautions. Bus service was canceled throughout the city because of “the driver shortage,” as city … Keep reading »
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Supports for Workers and Covid-19: Two Responses
| March 20, 2020
Statement from Workers in Toronto’s Travel, Hospitality, and Transportation Sectors Our economy is built upon mobility. We all move short and long distances every day in an interconnected global economic system. … Keep reading »
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Workers and the Virus: Radical Lessons from Italy in the Age of COVID-19
| March 19, 2020
In the face of the mounting coronavirus crisis, we need to start asking a crucial question: who pays for the lockdown? The last three weeks have taught some hard lessons … Keep reading »
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Barred from Striking, Airline Food Workers Sit Down in Traffic
| March 18, 2020
Melieni Cruz, who helps prepare the meals passengers eat on airplanes, went thousands of dollars into debt because she couldn’t pay her soaring medical bills. “When the doctor found cysts … Keep reading »
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The Insanity of Making Sick People Work
| March 17, 2020
Coronavirus is putting extra burdens on workers, from health professionals to low-paid cleaning staff at the front line of combating infection. Yet many of these same workers don’t even have … Keep reading »
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Safety Is Not Negotiable for Anyone – Including Healthcare Workers
| March 16, 2020
The following is a joint statement issued March 13 by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Unifor, … Keep reading »
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Socialist Feminist Cabaret 2020
| March 15, 2020
Performances by: The Rise Up Feminist Jazz Band Songs of Chilean Resistance MC’ed by Sue Findlay and Nithya Nagarajan. Recorded in Toronto, 29 February 2020.
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Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible?
| March 14, 2020
Giorgio Agamben’s recent intervention (“The Invention of an Epidemic”) which characterizes the measures implemented in response to the Covid-19 pandemic as an exercise in the biopolitics of the “state of … Keep reading »
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Donald Trump Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Attack Social Security
| March 13, 2020
Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the payroll contribution rate is a stealth attack on Social Security. Even if the proposal were to replace Social Security’s dedicated revenue with deficit-funded general … Keep reading »
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Inoculating Against Globalization: Coronavirus and the Search for Alternatives
| March 12, 2020
Social developments constantly surprise. The latest anxieties over the economic contradictions of extreme globalization haven’t been triggered by a trade war, inter-imperial rivalry, a financial meltdown or riots in the … Keep reading »
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