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Mexico: Violence, Corruption and Inequality — AMLO to the Rescue?
| July 29, 2018
The victory in Mexico’s presidential election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), under the rubric of his relatively new ‘progressive’ Morena party, is both unsurprising and surprising. It’s unsurprising because … Keep reading »
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Israel’s New Basic Law and the Making of the Apartheid State
| July 26, 2018
The Socialist Project (SP) joins Israeli, Palestinian, and international civil society organizations in condemning the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People” which recently passed the … Keep reading »
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UN Office Calls for Probe Into Human Rights in Kashmir
| July 18, 2018
A conference in Mississauga July 7, convened by the Kashmir Welfare Society, marked the first organized response in Canada to a United Nations report calling for an investigation of human … Keep reading »
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Border Capitalism, Disrupted
| July 16, 2018
Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone Through to the back of the cremation grounds where the fields of sugarcane begin, Ko Soe and I coast our bicycles … Keep reading »
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Ontario Fights Back: Recalling the Harris years
| July 15, 2018
Canada, and its industrial heartland and largest province of Ontario, is far from immune from the right-wing populist forces gaining electoral ground and organizational force around the world. The June … Watch video »
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What’s Behind the Trade War?
| July 13, 2018
Trump’s burgeoning trade war is more about asserting U.S. dominance in the world than helping American workers – writes David Kotz. Keep reading »
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Hassan Diab: Nothing Less Than a Public Inquiry Will Do
| July 11, 2018
He has been compared to Alfred Dreyfus, the iconic 19th-century French victim of false accusation and racism. The entire spectrum of the Canadian press has covered his unfolding story since … Keep reading »
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Slovenia’s Parliamentary Elections: A Xenophobic Right, a Fragmented Centre and a Rising Left
| July 10, 2018
The outcome of the recent Slovenian elections shows a fragmented political landscape, a worrying increase in support for right-wing populism and luckily, an electoral gain for the left’s Levica party … Keep reading »
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Ontario Election 2018: Right-Wing Populism Prevails Over Moderate Social Democracy
| July 9, 2018
In the June 7 provincial election, Ontario politics took a sharp turn to the right as the Progressive Conservatives, under the leadership of the populist businessman and former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford, steamrolled to a majority government. Keep reading »
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The Case for Free Public Transit: Just Mobility and Urban Planning
| July 8, 2018
Toronto launch of a unique book, Free Public Transit – And Why We Don’t Pay to Ride Elevators. The launch featured a discussion about the promises, challenges and social underpinnings of free public transit. Watch video »
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Turkish Elections, Looming Fascism and Left Politics
| July 6, 2018
The elections on 24 June in Turkey for a new president and parliament, which took place under a state of emergency, constitute an historic moment in Turkish republican history with … Keep reading »
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Reading Europe’s Fault Lines
| July 4, 2018
Notes from Europe as hard-Right populism enters Queen’s Park The rapid marching of the right in electoral politics, intellectual circles, and on the streets has become an undeniable feature of … Keep reading »
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