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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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What’s the Matter with America?
| February 5, 2017
Toronto — 26 January 2017. Thomas Frank is the founder of The Baffler magazine, author of What’s the Matter With Kansas? and Listen Liberal, and past columnist for The Wall … Watch video »
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A Terrorist Attack on Muslims in Quebec
| February 2, 2017
On Sunday night, a young, white, French-speaking, Quebec-born man opened fire inside of a Quebec City mosque, killing six Muslim worshipers – Azzeddine Soufiane, Abdelkrim (Karim) Hassane, Khaled Belkacemi, Aboubaker … Keep reading »
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How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Donald Trump
| January 31, 2017
Donald Trump and his congressional Republican allies have taken control of the US government. The result threatens to be devastating for both labor and the climate – not to mention … Keep reading »
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Launching the Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution
| January 29, 2017
Toronto — 12 January 2017. The main purpose of the 2017 edition of the Socialist Register (SR) – one century after “Red October” – is to look forward, to what … Watch video »
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Will Washington’s New Pro-Moscow, Anti-Beijing Gang Drive a Wedge Through the BRICS in 2017?
| January 27, 2017
The weeks following an underwhelming Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) mid-September summit in Goa and the United States presidential election in November have unveiled ever-widening contradictions. Thanks to blatant corruption, presidential delegitimation has reached unprecedented levels in both Brazil and South Africa. Keep reading »
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