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Raise the Rates: The Vital Struggle Against Ontario’s Sub-Poverty Welfare System
| September 9, 2007
A drastic reduction in the adequacy of income support payments is key to the neoliberal agenda. This is especially true in a country like Canada that had earlier seen the … Keep reading »
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Reviving the Labour Movement Through Reviving Class Solidarity
| September 2, 2007
LABOUR DAY SEPTEMBER 2007 As Canada and Ontario’s labour movement marches in this year’s Labour Day Parade it does so with something to celebrate: an increase in the provincial minimum wage. … Keep reading »
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‘Labour for Palestine’ Responds to U.S. Anti-Boycott Statement
| August 28, 2007
In July 2007, a group of labour leaders from the U.S. issued a statement opposing the growing international campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The statement was … Keep reading »
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In Opposition to the SPP
| August 27, 2007
The Security and Prosperity Partnership (the SPP) was originally launched in March, 2005 by U.S. president George Bush, and the former leaders of Mexico and Canada, Vincente Fox and Paul … Keep reading »
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June 29, 2007: AFN Day of Action
| June 28, 2007
On May 31, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) called for a national day of action on June 29, to force changes in key features of federal aboriginal policy. On … Keep reading »
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Michael Lebowitz and 21st Century Socialism
| June 17, 2007
Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez has re-opened the discussion of political alternatives, in Latin America and beyond, in spectacular fashion. Based in Caracas, Michael Lebowitz has been intensively involved in discussion of the government’s political direction. Watch video »
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Human Development and Practice
| June 13, 2007
The Bolivarian Constitution, in my view, is unique in its explicit recognition (in Article 299) that the goal of a human society must be that of ‘ensuring overall human development.’ … Keep reading »
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The Crisis in Manufacturing Jobs: Struggling for Answers
| June 1, 2007
Manufacturing in the Canadian Economy Should We Give Up On Manufacturing Jobs? An Alternative Program Rethinking Unions Community Responses: The Example of Windsor The last weeks of May have seen … Keep reading »
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The Crisis in Manufacturing Jobs: Struggling for Answers
The last weeks of May have seen major demonstrations of workers’ discontent with the crisis that has been unfolding in Canada’s manufacturing sector. Some 52,000 jobs have been lost in … Keep reading »
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Mexican Workers Call for a Continental Workers’ Campaign For Living Wages and Social Justice
| May 11, 2007
Capital and the state of all three countries of the North American Free Trade Agreement have worked together to push down wages and working conditions, undermine the social safety net, … Keep reading »
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Labour for Palestine: Can We Build the BDS Campaign?
| April 18, 2007
Just less than a year ago in May 2006, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario unanimously passed in convention its pathbreaking Resolution 50 in support for the global … Keep reading »
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A Movement Toward or Beyond ‘Statism’? Bolivia in 2006
| March 28, 2007
It is now more than three decades since neoliberal economic and political ideas began to supplant Keynesian orthodoxies within the treasuries and finance ministries of Western governments and in the … Keep reading »
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