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Greece: Syriza Shines a Light
| August 8, 2012
Like a swan moving forward with relaxed confidence while paddling furiously beneath the surface, Syriza, the radical left coalition that could become the next government of Greece, is facing enormous … Keep reading »
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Syria Between Revolution and Counterrevolution
| August 7, 2012
The struggle between the Baath regime of Bashar al-Assad and the popular masses of the city and country in Syria that started on 15 March 2011 seems to have consumed … Keep reading »
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Cockburn and Vidal: a Dying Breed
| August 6, 2012
In just the last few weeks, the radical left has lost two of its most important, elegant and eccentric voices, Alexander Cockburn and Gore Vidal. Much (virtual) ink has already … Keep reading »
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Denmark: Red-Green Alliance Congress Grapples With Increased Influence
| August 3, 2012
Red carpet and champagne marked the start of the first Red-Green Alliance (RGA) congress since the party tripled its mandate at a poll in September 2011. The 385 delegates representing … Keep reading »
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The New Student Rebellion and the Mexican Left
| August 1, 2012
Challenging the Corporate Media and the Electoral Fraud Éramos silencio, éramos dolor, éramos opresión. Quisieron arrebatárnoslo todo y lo único que perdimos fue el miedo. Ya no seremos más una … Keep reading »
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Remembering Sask Oil: It Can Be Done!
| July 31, 2012
This past week it was revealed that one of China’s state-owned oil corporations has made a bid to take over Nexen, one of the remaining four large oil corporations operating … Keep reading »
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The Day the Wheat Board Died
| July 27, 2012
On August 1, 2012, the Conservative government will bring an end to a major Canadian institution and one of the world’s largest, longest-standing, and most successful “state trading enterprises.” After … Keep reading »
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Cheap Labour, Cheap Lives
| July 25, 2012
Contextualizing Farm Worker Deaths in South Africa and Canada There is a passage from Olive Schreiner’s 1883 novel The Story of An African Farm where she describes the isolated existence … Keep reading »
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Lessons From Quebec
| July 22, 2012
Student Activists from Quebec visit Ryerson Student Centre Students in Quebec have been on strike for six months, refusing to return to classes until the Charest government reverses its plan … Watch video »
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Ed Miliband At the Miners’ Gala
| July 20, 2012
A Red Dawn Over Durham? Although their histories are quite different, the British Labour Party and the U.S. Democrats have one thing in common: both like to avoid too much … Keep reading »
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What Will Change in France?
| July 19, 2012
In the traditional speech to the National Assembly, France’s Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of the ruling Socialist Party laid out the political program he shares with the new President François … Keep reading »
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Cuba’s Coming Co-operative Economy?
| July 18, 2012
Reflections From Two Recent Field Trips In 2011, I made two trips to Cuba to study the new co-operatives. In June I was kindly invited by Camila Piñeiro Harnecker, a … Keep reading »
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