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Political Conflict and the Mexican Presidential Election
| June 22, 2006
Mexican Presidential elections are always spectacles of the cultural symbols and clichés of Mexico – mariachi bands, twirling parasols, huge flags, marches, the invocation of the cultural heroes of the … Keep reading »
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State Violence and Gender in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico
| June 9, 2006
It is a remarkable commentary on the media monopolies of North America that the violent assault on social movement leaders in Atenco, Mexico in May has been met with silence. … Keep reading »
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COSATU Open Letter in Support of CUPE Resolution
| June 7, 2006
The passing of a resolution on 27 May 2006 by the Ontario Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in support of the Palestinian peoples has sparked a great … Keep reading »
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Canadian Union Takes Important Step Against Israeli Apartheid
| May 31, 2006
At the annual convention of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, held 24-27 May 2006 in Ottawa, the union passed a resolution of historic importance. Resolution 50 – … Keep reading »
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The Harper Government: Toward A New Social Order?
| May 22, 2006
The election of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government on January 23, 2006 has significantly shifted the terms of the social policy debate ni Canada. While in some respects the Harper government … Keep reading »
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Québec Debates: Tories’ Move to Prolong Afghanistan Intervention
| May 17, 2006
The moment of truth arrives today for the Bloc Québécois, and for those on the left who have pledged their support to its strategy of shoring up Harper’s minority government. … Keep reading »
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Palestine, Israeli Apartheid and the Canadian State
| May 15, 2006
Canada has a long and inglorious history of supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestine. This has included the indirect support of Canadians furthering the illegal colonial settlements in the Occupied … Keep reading »
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Figuring out and Fighting Harper
| May 8, 2006
The January 2006 Federal election results in Canada unexpectedly yielded a minority Conservative Government. The ‘great moving right show’ is having yet another run. In Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada … Keep reading »
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Who’s Getting It? The Canadian Mission in Afghanistan
| April 21, 2006
Since relieving American forces in Kandahar on 28 February 2006, Canada’s casualties in Afghanistan have come from a suicide bombing, an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) accident, an axe attack on … Keep reading »
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Rewriting History: The CAW Turn
| 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 »
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Concessions in Oshawa: The End of an Era?
| 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 »
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The End of a Political Fiction?
| 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 »
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