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What Emergency? An Assessment of Toronto’s 2008 Transit Strike
| May 5, 2008
Last weekend’s two-day transit strike in Toronto raises anew and in starker terms two issues of longstanding concern to the labour movement in this city and throughout the province. First, … Keep reading »
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Socialist Project Labour Movement Platform
As workers, we are today confronted with the challenge of defending what we have and making gains in the face of an ever-expanding and relentless employer offensive. The employers’ drive … Keep reading »
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Justice for Migrant Workers: Why We Will March
| May 1, 2008
Global migration has been increasing rapidly over the last decades within and between states. A disquieting aspect of this has been the growth of migrant workers who are non-citizens and … Keep reading »
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Food Crisis I
| April 28, 2008
In Haiti, where most people get 22% fewer calories than the minimum needed for good health, some are staving off their hunger pangs by eating “mud biscuits” made by mixing … Keep reading »
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The Capitalist Workday, The Socialist Workday
| April 26, 2008
As May Day approaches, there are four things that are worth remembering: For workers, May Day does not celebrate a state holiday or gifts from the state but commemorates the … Keep reading »
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Countering Palestine Solidarity Work in Canada
| April 25, 2008
“Words wreak havoc when they find a name for what had up to then been lived namelessly” – Jean Paul Sartre Over the past several months of 2008, Israel advocacy … Keep reading »
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The Mexican Crisis and the Oaxaca Commune
| April 23, 2008
The Oaxaca Commune was an extraordinary experience of popular insurgency and democratic self-governance. Though its rise and fall was conditioned by the particularities of the Mexican political crisis of 2006, … Keep reading »
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The Ontario Mining Act, Political Prisoners and the Right to Say “NO”
| April 16, 2008
In February 2008, the leadership of the Ardoch Algonquins were sentenced for contempt because of their unwavering opposition to uranium exploration on their traditional territory in eastern Ontario. Bob Lovelace, … Keep reading »
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Interview with KI Political Prisoner Cecilia Begg
| April 9, 2008
Cecilia Begg is the Head Councillor of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation in Northern Ontario. She is the lone female community leader in what has come to be known as … Keep reading »
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The Left and Labour in Russia Under Putin
| April 7, 2008
With Boris Kagarlitsky, Institute For Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow. Since the collapse of the old Soviet Union in the 1990s and the end of the politically bankrupt regime of … Watch video »
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The Oaxaca Commune
The Other Indigenous Rebellion in Mexico This essay explores the extraordinary experience of the Oaxaca Commune in Mexico, an experience of grass-roots rebellion and self-government that has put forth an alternative … Keep reading »
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Farmers Seek Defenses Against the Giants of Agribusiness
| April 4, 2008
Around the world, farm income is plummeting, pushing farmers off the land and into destitution. At the very same time, soaring food prices are putting tens of millions onto starvation … Keep reading »
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