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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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End Immigration Detention: An Open Letter
| July 3, 2018
On June 27, 2018, a coalition of over 2000 Canadian healthcare organizations and healthcare providers, including doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists and midwives have signed on to an open letter, … Keep reading »
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The Colonial State and the Suppression of the Plains Cree
| July 1, 2018
Chief Poundmaker and Chief Big Bear It is impossible to disentangle the making of the Canadian state from the history of European – and particularly French and British – imperialism … Watch video »
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Obrador and Mexico’s Watershed Election
| June 29, 2018
Uncertainties, Contradictions and Struggle The July 1 national election in Mexico is likely to be a watershed in Mexican history. The splintering of the three old parties, their unprincipled tactical … Keep reading »
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Attacking the Rights of Workers: The U.S. Supreme Court Hides Behind the First Amendment
| June 28, 2018
There is nothing about the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Janus v. AFSCME to overturn 41 years of precedent and declare that agency fee/fair share is unconstitutional that surprised … Keep reading »
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