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Privacy and the Right to Strike in Canada
| November 28, 2013
The neoliberal assault on labour has now entered its fourth decade. While Canada’s labour union density continues to hover around thirty percent, that number hides declining density rates in the … Keep reading »
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No Transit Fare Increase!
| November 26, 2013
The entire Canadian urban public transit system is in serious crisis after years of neglect and underfunding from the neoliberal policies adopted by all levels of government in Canada. This … Keep reading »
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Pension Funds and Privatization
| November 24, 2013
Toronto — 15 November 2013. Pension Funds, Unions, and Working Class Strategies – session 4: P3s and pension-financed privatization Nearly all of the largest pension funds in Canada have moved … Watch video »
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Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities
| November 23, 2013
Toronto — 28 October 2013. This lecture by Justin Podur is based on a trip he made to Kabul in March 2013 and his chapter in the 2013 University of … Watch video »
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Stop Line 9 Should Be Labour’s Demand
| November 22, 2013
One would have hoped that Canada’s newest and largest private sector union – UNIFOR, made up of the former Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) unions … Keep reading »
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Challenging Harper’s Imperialist Agenda
| November 17, 2013
It has become commonplace to observe that the Conservative government of Stephen Harper has been re-making the symbols and practices of the Canadian state. Canada, in this view, was once … Keep reading »
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Pouring Fuel on the Climate Change Fire
| November 14, 2013
The earth is on fire. If that statement sounds alarmist, it’s because you should be alarmed. Each month seems to bring new and more frightening proof of the effects of … Keep reading »
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The Philippines Typhoon: Climate Change and Political Disaster
| November 13, 2013
The Philippines is a country long wracked by political corruption, colonialism, military occupation and dependence and millions living in poverty. When natural disasters hit, such as Typhoon Haiyan, a category … Keep reading »
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The Scandalization of Politics: On FordLisi, HarperDuffy, and a Few Others
| November 11, 2013
We are gripped by scandal. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is implicated in a top-level cover up of illegal expense claims by one his own foot soldiers: now-suspended Senator … Keep reading »
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The Hidden History of Workplace Resistance: U.S. Autoworkers Speak Out
| November 10, 2013
Three prominent UAW shop floor activists describe current life on American assembly lines and keeping resistance alive. Watch video »
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After the Evictions: The U.S. Occupy Movement Struggling at the Front Lines of the Crisis
| November 6, 2013
Three years after the financial meltdown of 2008, the U.S. Occupy movement opened the possibility for a left regroupment against resurgent neoliberalism. Yet the forceful eviction from the squares just … Keep reading »
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The Canadian Appointed Senate and the Drift to Authoritarian Rule
| November 5, 2013
Stephen Harper and his governing, Conservative Party hierarchy were hoping that the brawl they have picked with Canada’s appointed Senate would be wrapped up in time for the party’s two-day … Keep reading »
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