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Ottawa Budget Struggles: Cut Fares Not Service
| April 21, 2023
Ottawa faces a real risk of more cuts to bus service after a recently announced budget shortfall. This was, unfortunately, entirely self inflicted. The mayor left a $39-million hole in … Keep reading »
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Deal or Default: Is It the Endgame for Pakistan?
| April 19, 2023
The IMF mission is currently in Pakistan on a 10-day visit to discuss the stalled ninth review of the country’s current funding programme. The loan talks were restarted after the … Keep reading »
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Palestinian Trade Unions’ Anti-Apartheid Call
| April 16, 2023
Palestinian trade unions and professional syndicates issue a global call for solidarity with the Palestinian-led Anti-Apartheid Movement. Keep reading »
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Systemic Violence, Institutional Apathy and Toronto Schools
| April 13, 2023
In 2007, youth and gun violence were hot topics in Toronto with the death of 15-year-old grade nine student Jordan Manners on May 23 at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, a … Keep reading »
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Vancouver’s Sweeps Are Cruel, Costly, and Counterproductive
| April 11, 2023
Less than six months into their term in office Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC majority have made clear their vision for Vancouver: more police, less justice. More inequality, less … Keep reading »
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Canadian Unions and the State: Losing Ground, Moving On
| April 9, 2023
There have now been four editions of From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023), the first dating back to 1985, and it … Keep reading »
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The Long Arm of Washington Extends Into Africa’s Sahel
| April 6, 2023
On March 16, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced – during his visit to Niger – that the United States government will provide $150-million in aid to the … Keep reading »
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A World Gone Haywire: Brutality Toward Children
| April 4, 2023
In recent radio interviews, Wole Soyinka, the 88-year old Nobel literature prize recipient from Nigeria, spoke of a “world gone haywire,” about the human world completely transformed in the way … Keep reading »
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The First Signs of an Ecological Class Struggle in Germany
| April 2, 2023
After years of rapprochement, Germany’s climate and labour movement are jointly going on strike to demand socio-ecological public infrastructure. Keep reading »
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Democracy for All? IJV Statement on the Ongoing Unrest in Israel
| March 30, 2023
On Monday, after weeks of mass protests, Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu finally announced that he would be pausing his far-right government’s controversial plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary. In order … Keep reading »
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The West Against the Rest? The EU, the Ukraine War, and Its Collaterals
| March 29, 2023
The invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s army heralds a global ‘turning point’, so western pundits and politicians claim. How is the European Union (EU) dealing with this? And what about … Keep reading »
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The US and UK’s Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia
| March 28, 2023
The recent Australia, US, and UK $368-billion deal on buying nuclear submarines has been termed by Paul Keating, a former Australian prime minister, as the “worst deal in all history.” … Keep reading »
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