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Afghanistan: A Surge Toward Disaster
| March 17, 2009
As United States President Barack Obama simultaneously escalates and crafts a new strategy for the U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led counter-insurgency war and occupation in Afghanistan, critics say that … Keep reading »
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Tory Government Introduces New ‘Anti-Terror’ Law
| March 16, 2009
Khawaja Sentenced to 10½ More Years in Jail Mohammad Momin Khawaja, the first person to be sentenced under Canada’s post-9/11 terrorism laws, was ordered March 12 to serve 10½ years in … Keep reading »
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Still a Marxist After All
| March 10, 2009
Recorded in Toronto, 10 March 2009. Thanks to VE3SRE for the audio files. (18.5 MB.mp3) – (28 MB.ogg) Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture website
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The Israel Advocacy Push to “Reclaim” York University
| March 3, 2009
Putting Current Events in Context Toronto’s York University, the third-largest university in Canada, is a politically contradictory place. On the one hand, what can in broad terms be described as left … Keep reading »
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Why We Should All Support Israeli Apartheid Week
| March 2, 2009
This is the fifth consecutive year of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). Launched in Toronto, this week-long initiative hosts a string of lectures, film screenings, panels, demonstrations, cultural performances and other … Keep reading »
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From Global Finance to the Nationalization of the Banks
| February 25, 2009
Eight Theses on the Economic Crisis 1. The current economic crisis has to be understood in terms of the historical dynamics and contradictions of capitalist finance in the second half of … Keep reading »
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The Financial Crisis: a Socialist Perspective
| February 20, 2009
Montreal, February 21, 2009. A strategy with short and medium term demands, geared to fostering the relation of forces necessary to move beyond capital. Presentation by Sam Gindin. Introduction by … Watch video »
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Exposed: University of Toronto Suppresses Pro-Palestinian Activism
| February 19, 2009
The last few months have seen a global surge in support for the movement of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Important solidarity actions have occurred across the … Keep reading »
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Academic Freedom Threatened in Ontario Universities
| February 18, 2009
The last two years have seen increasing efforts to limit advocacy of Palestinian rights at Canadian universities, amounting to a pattern of the suppression of freedom of speech and freedom … Keep reading »
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The Financial Crisis and American Power
| February 16, 2009
An Interview with Leo Panitch What is your assessment of the relationship between this serious financial crisis emerging foremost in the U.S. and American power and economic decline? I don’t think … Keep reading »
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Why the Venezuelan Amendment Campaign Is So Important
| February 14, 2009
Sunday, 15 February, Venezuelans vote in a referendum on a proposed Constitutional Amendment that will allow for any candidate to stand for the Presidency, or indeed for any elective office, … Keep reading »
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Why the U.S. Stimulus Package is Bound to Fail
| February 12, 2009
Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates … Keep reading »
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