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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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No, the Coronavirus is Not Responsible for the Fall of Stock Prices
| March 11, 2020
We are witnessing a big crisis in the stock markets on Wall Street, Europe, Japan and Shanghai, and many blame the coronavirus for it. In the last week of February … Keep reading »
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Contradictions of Post-Soviet Ukraine and the New Left
| March 10, 2020
Ukraine ended the 1980s as one of the most advanced parts of the Soviet super-power with a developed machine-building industry. Thirty years later, Ukraine’s major economic indicators are on a … Keep reading »
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Class (Size) Struggle: The Ontario Government’s Latest Game
| March 9, 2020
Anything that Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says should be taken with a bag of salt. His ability to dissemble is astonishing. So, when he said on Tuesday afternoon that … Keep reading »
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Socialist Feminist Cabaret: A Rapist in Your Path
| March 8, 2020
Presentation of “A Rapist in Your Path” in English and “Un violador en tu camino” in Spanish with Canadian-Chilean solidarity group Apoyamos Chile. Part of the Socialist Feminist Cabaret 2020. Watch video »
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The Transnational Activism of Dockworkers
| March 6, 2020
“Interfere with the foreign policy of the country? Sure as hell! That’s our job, that’s our privilege, that’s our right, that’s our duty” – Harry Bridges, 1974. Dockworkers have power. … Keep reading »
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