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  • Rewriting History: The CAW Turn Sam Gindin | April 6, 2006

    In response to criticism of the concessions made by the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) at General Motors’s Oshawa facility this winter, the union has made four counter-arguments. First, no concessions … Keep reading »

  • Concessions in Oshawa: The End of an Era? Sam Gindin | March 22, 2006

    In the early 1980s General Motors workers in Canada refused to follow their American parent (UAW) in opening their collective agreement. The ensuing conflict eventually led to the Canadians breaking … Keep reading »

  • The End of a Political Fiction? Adam Hanieh | January 31, 2006

    Hamas’s landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is an unprecedented turning point for politics in both Palestine and the broader Middle East. … Keep reading »

  • A Real Alternative: The Canadian Election and Childcare Policy Rianne Mahon | January 19, 2006

    It’s a good thing that childcare has become a key issue in this Federal election campaign. Canadians need a well-developed network of early learning and childcare programs. It begins to … Keep reading »

  • The Anti-semitism of Iran’s President Khashayar Hooshiyar | December 20, 2005

    Stupidity or Deliberate Strategy? Since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, Western governments became somewhat accustomed to the conciliatory gestures of both the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations. The overtly hostile … Keep reading »

  • The CAW’s Direction: Some Questions Sam Gindin | December 14, 2005

    A number of questions about the CAW’s general political and more specific electoral orientation are being asked both inside and outside the union. These are questions of importance to the … Keep reading »

  • Whose Healthcare?

    Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System Hugh Armstrong, et al. Most Canadians reject a private health care system that is driven by the accumulation of profit, that limits people’s access … Keep reading »

  • Montreal 2005 Climate Change Conference Graham Erion and Michael Dorsey | December 3, 2005

    For persons in the Arctic watching permafrost and polar ice melt; in small island states watching the sea levels rise around them; in drought-filled regions watching another year’s crop fail; … Keep reading »

  • This Election will Not End the Impasse of Canadian Democracy Bryan Evans and Greg Albo | November 30, 2005

    By a margin of 171 to 133, the united parliamentary forces of the Conservatives, Bloc Quebecois and New Democratic Party felled the federal Liberal Government of Paul Martin at 7:09 … Keep reading »

  • The GM Layoffs and the Logic of Neoliberalism Sam Gindin | November 25, 2005

    The perverse logic of neoliberalism took even more twisted turns on 21 November 2005. General Motors, the largest manufacturing company in the world, had just months ago been promised $450-million in government money to create jobs in Canada. Keep reading »

  • The French Riots and Canada Paris is Burning and Govind Rao | November 22, 2005

    The fires lighting up the nights of the suburbs of France over the last month have stripped even more gloss off the already tarnished ideology of neoliberalism. Against the alleged … Keep reading »

  • GM, the Delphi Concessions and North American Workers: Round Two? Sam Gindin | November 14, 2005

    It is important to recall that until the 1970s, collective bargaining in the United States and Canada was largely about workers demanding improvements from their employers. But a new era … Keep reading »

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