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‘Poverty Reduction’? Reforming without Reforms in a Neoliberal World
| June 30, 2008
On June 21, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) took over a downtown Toronto park for and with the homeless. We were able to create a short lived space where … Keep reading »
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A World in Revolt
| June 28, 2008
Toronto — 23 June 2008 Prospects for socialist revolution in Venezuela and Latin America with Celia Hart. Celia Hart (4 January 1962 – September 7, 2008) was a Cuban physicist … Watch video »
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Global Finance, the Current Crisis and Challenges to the Dollar
| June 25, 2008
It is not often that we find ourselves living through financial turmoil so serious that the International Monetary Fund calls it “the largest financial crisis in the United States since … Keep reading »
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Harvest of Injustice: The Oppression of Migrant Workers on Canadian Farms
| June 23, 2008
Some say that nothing happens by chance. At the very least, it was a fortunate accident that my first job, when I arrived in Canada from Bolivia three years ago, … Keep reading »
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Death Spiral in Zimbabwe
| June 22, 2008
Mediation, Violence and the GNU Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another? — Bertolt Brecht, 1953. In March 2008 … Keep reading »
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Pan-Africanists: Our Collective Duty to Zimbabwe
| June 21, 2008
Experiences in Guyana, in Kenya and in Zimbabwe have taught us that it is a mistake to adopt western standards of victory as our own, write Horace Campbell and Eusi … Keep reading »
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‘Dare Anyone Say a Word?’: The CLC Convention of 2008
| June 17, 2008
There is always something unsettling about people who say one thing and do another. There is for one thing the hypocrisy. Then, there is the uncertainty. It only takes a … Keep reading »
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Canadian Workers Demand Immediate End to War in Afghanistan
| June 14, 2008
On 29 May 2008, the delegates at the national convention of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), representing more than three million workers from every region of Canada and Quebec, voted … Keep reading »
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Disaster in the Making: Canada Concludes Its Free Trade Agreement With Colombia
| June 11, 2008
What’s the monetary value of a Colombian trade unionist’s life? As it turns out, it depends on how many are killed in a given year since the potential fines the … Keep reading »
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Haiti – Damming the Flood
| June 4, 2008
Launch of Peter Hallward’s Damming the Flood: Aristide, Haiti, and the Politics of Containment (Verso Books). Recorded in Toronto, 2 June 2008. Watch video »
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Falling Wages, High Prices and the Failure of an Export-Oriented Economy
| June 2, 2008
In April 2008, after a wave of protests over low wages and high food prices, including an attempt to generate a general strike by many workers and social activists on … Keep reading »
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Building its Ties to Colombia: Canada’s Imperial Adventure in the Andes
| May 27, 2008
On May 5th, 2008 Canada’s Trade Minister, David Emerson, proudly declared that Canada is “very close” to concluding free trade negotiations with Colombia. According to Foreign Affairs officials, a deal … Keep reading »
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