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The Canadian Left and the Quebec Question: The Dilemma That Won’t Go Away
| February 25, 2017
In September 2015, a fine document emerged from Canadian progressives around the Leap Manifesto. It expresses a broad will to transform the land around a wide platform of social, democratic … Keep reading »
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Bob White, Union Organizer, Union Leader
| February 23, 2017
April 28, 1935 – February 19, 2017 When I last visited Bob at his nursing home in Kincardine, a nurse politely pulled me aside to tell me that he no longer … Keep reading »
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Time to Fix Hydro ‘Mistake’
| February 22, 2017
Hydro in Ontario is a mess and rates are skyrocketing. The high number of people who have trouble paying or can’t pay their Hydro bills is growing by the day. … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Economic Policies Are No Answer To Our Problems
| February 20, 2017
President Trump has singled out unfair international trading relationships as a major cause of US worker hardship. And he has promised to take decisive action to change those relationships by … Keep reading »
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Global Intern Coalition – Global Intern Strike!
| February 19, 2017
20 February 2017. On February 20th, young people across the world will come together to push for an end to the exploitative and exclusionary practice of unpaid internships. Decentralized actions … Watch video »
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South Africa and the Changing Possibilities for the Left
| February 16, 2017
With the claims that a new trade union federation will be launched in March 2017, it is appropriate to draw up a balance sheet of the labour movement in South … Keep reading »
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Unspoken Words: Nuclear War Provocations and Plans
| February 14, 2017
During the election campaign there was a brief period of anxiety about Clinton or Trump taking possession of the nuclear code, with the power to eradicate our species at the … Keep reading »
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If You Don’t Understand the Second Product, You Understand Nothing About Marx’s Capital
| February 12, 2017
Athens — 14 January 2017. The following talk was given at the International conference “150 years Karl Marx’s Capital – Reflections for the 21st century” held in Athens, Greece on … Watch video »
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Mapping the Canadian Left: Sovereignty and Solidarity in the 21st Century
| February 11, 2017
If there is a single theme that has distinguished left politics in Canada and Québec at least since the 1960s, it is the aspiration to national sovereignty. For both the … Keep reading »
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Black Snakes on the Move: U.S. Pipeline Expansion Out Of Control
| February 9, 2017
A Lakota prophecy tells of a mythic Black Snake that will move underground and bring destruction to the Earth. The “seventh sign” in Hopi prophecy involves the ocean turning black … Keep reading »
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Toronto Mayor’s Housing Policies Costs Lives
| February 7, 2017
Eighty people have died in the last two years as a direct result of homelessness in Toronto. That’s one homeless person dying every 10 days. In 1985, people fighting homelessness … Keep reading »
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How Postal Workers Removed the Staples
| February 6, 2017
“We Won! The US Postal Service and Staples deal is over!” proclaimed the headline on the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) website. A three-year battle against the outsourcing of living-wage, … Keep reading »
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