-
A Disaster Waiting to Happen: Expanding the U.S.-led ISIS War to Other Countries
| May 20, 2015
According to a 29 April report in The New York Times, leaders from the U.S.-led coalition at war with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will meet in … Keep reading »
-
Dissecting the Failure of Soviet ‘Socialism’
| May 19, 2015
Review of The Contradictions of “Real Socialism”: The Conductor and the Conducted, by Michael A. Lebowitz, New York: Monthly Review (2012). Excerpt from Lebowitz’s book, see Bullet No. 665: “Overture: … Keep reading »
-
Shaking Off the Part-Time Blues
| May 18, 2015
Fighting for the Rights of Ontario College Workers We’ve all followed the news that part-time, insecure employment is growing. I work at an Ontario college as a full-time library technician. … Keep reading »
-
Workers’ Struggles Against the Corporate Offensive
| May 17, 2015
Vancouver — 28 April 2015. A Panel discussion of Continental Crucible with Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, Jim Sinclair and Richard Roman. Napoleón Gómez Urrutia is President and General Secretary of the … Watch video »
-
South Africa’s Xenophobia of a Special Type
| May 15, 2015
Historical and Global Perspectives In the past weeks a few South Africans – possibly inspired by an artificially resuscitated Zulu ‘king’ who mused that it might be a good idea … Keep reading »
-
Alberta: A Perfect Political Storm
| May 13, 2015
Election outcomes like Alberta’s do not come often: the total collapse of a four decade conservative dynasty and majority power for a party considered on the “left” in Canada. The … Keep reading »
-
Hegemony in the Making: Germany on the Way to Becoming a Political Giant
| May 11, 2015
Germany is an economic giant but a political dwarf. Ever since the run-up to the First World War, this thesis has been firmly established in the conservative camp and it … Keep reading »
-
Class Struggle in North America
| May 10, 2015
Victoria — 13 April 2015. Moderated by Ben Isitt. Presentations by Bill Carroll, Carlos Flores, and Richard Roman. Ben Isitt is a historian, legal scholar, author, also is a city … Watch video »
-
400ppm
| May 9, 2015
William Carroll, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria — May 2015. Lyrics The oceans keep rising and the weather’s getting more extreme Africa is sizzling and the polar caps are … Watch video »
-
Theses on Podemos and the ‘Democratic Revolution’ in Spain
| May 7, 2015
Even if one almost always goes wrong with such prognoses, the fact is that the Spanish state is facing the biggest rupture since the end of the Franco dictatorship. In … Keep reading »
-
Ukraine’s European Discourse Does Not Correspond to Reality
| May 4, 2015
Interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko Volodymyr Ishchenko is a sociologist studying social protests in Ukraine. He is the deputy director of the Center for Social and Labour Research, a member of … Keep reading »
-
From Minimum Wage to a Fair Wage
| May 3, 2015
This round table brings together some of the leading North American activists and scholars concerned with the situation of minimum/low wage work. It is widely known that current minimum wage … Watch video »
Search Results
Displaying 2809-2820 of 4218 results