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Digital Games: A Canary in the Coal Mine of Capital
| March 10, 2019
Not everyone plays digital games, but with the rise of casual, mobile-based gaming, we all know someone who does. With global sales revenues that far exceed global Hollywood’s annual box … Watch video »
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Exterminators-in-Chief: Trudeau, Bolsonaro, et al, and Informed Consent
| March 8, 2019
I read the Canadian news today: “Pipeline expansion should be approved: regulator.” Regulators ignorantly, negligently, criminally, and in contempt of life, yet again gave the go-ahead to money over incontestable science. Liberal democratic Canada is in league with Brazil’s military dictatorship and the Lima Group. Keep reading »
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A More Dangerous World: The Nuclear Arms Race, the INF Treaty and Canada
| March 7, 2019
On October 20, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the bilateral Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia. The INF was signed by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1987. Keep reading »
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Other Charges: Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza
| March 6, 2019
Benjamin Netanyahu’s bad day Thursday got off to the worst possible start: before the Israeli general prosecutor Avichai Mandelblit officially called for the indictment of the Israeli Prime Minister for … Keep reading »
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Trudeau Doctrine
| March 5, 2019
Many Canadians are familiar with the Monroe Doctrine. First issued in 1823, it warned European powers against renewed colonization of the Western Hemisphere. Presented as anti-imperialist, the Monroe Doctrine was … Keep reading »
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For a Fighting Ecological Trade-Unionism
| March 4, 2019
How can we reconcile social struggle and environmental struggle? This question poses problems for trade unionists. To avoid a climate catastrophe, it would be necessary to reduce economic activity, to suppress useless or harmful production, to give up a substantial part of the means of transport. Keep reading »
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The Machinery of Images and the (Post-)Modern War
| March 3, 2019
On 14 February, 20-year-old Adil Ahmed Dar rammed a vehicle fill of explosives into a bus full of reserve police force personnel in Indian Occupied Kashmir. The attack killed over … Keep reading »
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The War on AMLO
| March 1, 2019
The Mexican and international right are united in their efforts to delegitimatize the AMLO presidency. Keep reading »
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Opportunities for the Montreal Urban Left
| February 28, 2019
Opportunities exist for an organized urban left one year into the Projet Montréal administration’s mandate. That was the key message of a recent event organized by the Montreal Urban Left, … Keep reading »
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An Inevitable Division: The Politics and Consequences of the Labour Split
| February 27, 2019
It’s the changing nature of class and capital that’s caused this split – and should shape the Left’s response to it. But discussing class meaningfully is the last media taboo. Keep reading »
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The Left and the U.S. Democratic Party w/ Adam Hilton
| February 26, 2019
Interview with Adam Hilton about the openings and obstacles for the left in engaging the terrain of the Democratic Party to advance a progressive agenda and embed a socialist movement in American politics. Listen to audio »
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Uber-Capitalism: Platform Mobility/Mobilizing Workers
After launching almost a decade ago, the transportation network corporations Uber and Lyft rapidly expanded their operations into cities around the world, disrupting taxi unions, degrading labour rights and diminishing public transit ridership. In this session of The Capitalism Workshop, Bronwyn Frey examines some of the worker organizational strategies emerging within Indonesia’s vast informal transportation sector.
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