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The Student Movement: Radical Priorities
| April 19, 2012
The student movement in Quebec is an incredibly important development, with implications that reach well beyond provincial borders. The movement emerged in response to a 75 per cent increase in … Keep reading »
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Can Labour Precipitate a ‘Useful Crisis’ at Air Canada?
| April 17, 2012
Shortly after being appointed Ontario’s Minister of Training and Education by Mike Harris in the mid 1990s, John Snobelen stated that it was necessary to create a ‘useful crisis’ in … Keep reading »
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The Unraveling Occupation
| April 16, 2012
The U.S. war and occupation of Afghanistan was supposed to bring stability and democracy. Instead, Afghanistan remains a country on the brink of disaster – one that has clearly been … Keep reading »
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Renewing Working Class Politics, Rebuilding Canadian Labour
| April 15, 2012
Toronto — 23 March 2012. View on www.slideshare.net Mark P. Thomas and Steve Tufts, York University: “Uneven Worker Power and the Populism-Austerity-Labour Nexus” Herman Rosenfeld teaches Labour Studies at McMaster … Watch video »
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Lenin and Occupy
| April 13, 2012
Many socialists have cheered Lars Lih’s demolition of the textbook interpretation of Lenin’s work in Lenin Rediscovered (2008) without examining how many of our own preconceptions on the subject are … Keep reading »
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The Electro-Motive Lockout and Non-Occupation
| April 10, 2012
What did we lose? What can we learn? Along with everything else, the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath created new openings and potentials for working people in the struggle … Keep reading »
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Economic Crisis and Austerity: The Stranglehold on Canada’s Families
| April 9, 2012
The claim that economic crises and austerity have an uneven impact on the working-class – with the greatest effects being felt by women and children – is one we hear … Keep reading »
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Mulcair’s Victory: What Does It Mean?
| April 6, 2012
On March 24, the membership of the Federal New Democratic Party (NDP) elected Thomas Mulcair to succeed the late Jack Layton as their national leader, who tragically died of cancer … Keep reading »
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After the Arab Spring in Palestine
| April 4, 2012
Contesting the Neoliberal Narrative of Palestinian National Liberation Over the past year, as Arab peoples in surrounding countries erupted in protest against dictators, security regimes, and failed social and economic … Keep reading »
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Mulcair’s Victory: A New Direction for the NDP?
| April 2, 2012
There is a lot of speculation going the rounds about whether or to what degree Thomas Mulcair will change the direction of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP). Mulcair, as … Keep reading »
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Global Economic Crisis and Canadian Austerity
| April 1, 2012
Toronto — 23 March 2012. View on www.slideshare.net It is now broadly recognized that the global economic crisis that struck in late 2007 is by far the most significant and … Watch video »
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Austerity in the Mind Factory
| March 29, 2012
Educational struggles are breaking out all over. In March 2012, over 200,000 Quebec students are waging a general strike against tuition increases and have faced brutal police repression. British Columbia … Keep reading »
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