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Relief Efforts in the Shadow of Past ‘Help’
| January 17, 2010
Moving from crimes-as-charity to actual support for Haiti Over the course of the past decade, Canada’s leading officials and most prestigious commentators have learned how to approach Haiti in the … Keep reading »
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Our Role in Haiti’s Plight
| January 14, 2010
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on Tuesday afternoon, but it’s … Keep reading »
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Vancouver Winter Olympics: A Festival of Corporate Greed
| January 13, 2010
On February 12, the corporate sporting behemoth known as the 21st Winter Olympic Games will open to great fanfare in Vancouver. In a time of economic hardship and government cuts … Keep reading »
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Neoliberalism and the Current Crisis in Mexico
| January 11, 2010
A Seminar with Andrés Barreda, held at Carleton University on November 27th, 2009; presented by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Institute of Political Economy in collaboration with CSRC. Watch video »
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The Dexter NDP: Old Wine, New Bottle?
| January 3, 2010
“I’ve waited all my life to see a socialist government in Nova Scotia. I’m still waiting.” — Voter email read on CBC Newsworld on election night.[1] On June 9, 2009 … Keep reading »
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Notes on Recent Developments in the European Radical Left
| December 30, 2009
The recent elections in Germany and Portugal have confirmed the emergence of a new radical Left in a number of countries across Europe. In Germany, Die Linke won 11.9 per … Keep reading »
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World Peace Forum 2009
| December 28, 2009
Vancouver, November 7-8, 2009. 1929-1939: From crash to catastrophe – A teach-in on what happened and its lessons for today. The ‘Great’ Depression, the rise of fascism, the debates that … Watch video »
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How to Cure the Post-Copenhagen Hangover
| December 27, 2009
In Copenhagen, the world’s richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, December 18, ignoring requests of global village neighbours to please chill out. Instead of halting … Keep reading »
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UAW Rank-and-File Organize to Fight For Union Principles
| December 23, 2009
For decades United Auto Workers (UAW) members at the Detroit Three – GM, Ford and Chrysler – were alleged to be narrowing their goals. Workers were said to be maintaining … Keep reading »
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Honduras: The Coup That Never Happened
| December 22, 2009
“When the media goes quiet, the walls speak.” — graffiti in Tegucigalpa. What strikes a visitor to the Honduran capital most immediately in this moment is the degree to which … Keep reading »
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Shambles in Copenhagen
| December 21, 2009
The United Nations conference to address climate change in Copenhagen over the last week has illustrated several crucial features about the contemporary political setting, as Obama completes a year in power in the United States, NATO plots a military surge into the war setting spanning Palestine to Afghanistan and an economic recovery staggers along. Keep reading »
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Canada: “Cheek by Jowl” With U.S. on COIN in Afghanistan
| December 16, 2009
July 2011 and beyond, no country will have been more closely integrated with U.S. President Barack Obama and Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan than the Canadians. Shortly after … Keep reading »
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