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Ethiopia: Between Famine and Military Stalemate
| March 16, 2021
During the liberation war from the mid-seventies to the early 1990s, Paulos Tesfagiorgis was head of the Eritrean Relief Agency (ERA), the central organism that organized the provision of goods … Keep reading »
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Closing the Enforcement Gap: The Pandemic and Precarious Employment
| March 15, 2021
As of March 15th, Ontario will have spent a full year in some form of lockdown. More than 22,000 Ontarians have died from COVID-19, hundreds of thousands of jobs have … Keep reading »
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The Responsibility of Revolutionary Intellectuals in Building Socialism
| March 12, 2021
When we talk about intellectuals, we have to recognize, of course, that there are many varieties of intellectual. So, let me be specific. I’m not talking about traditional intellectuals nor … Keep reading »
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Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
| March 11, 2021
“They have discovered smart weapons. We have discovered something more important: people think and feel” — Fidel Castro. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the failure of most Western capitalist countries … Keep reading »
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The Big Tech Monopolies and the State /w Grace Blakeley
As the effects of the coronavirus pandemic swept through the global economy, the average observer could have been forgiven for missing a critical piece of news: by May 2020, the combined market capitalization of the four largest US tech companies reached one fifth of the entire S&P 500. Four companies – Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook – now account for 20 per cent of the combined value of the 500 largest US corporations – an unparalleled level of market concentration. Forty years these corporate entities were either just beyond being plucky start-ups, or did not even exist. Monopolistic tendencies are not limited to the tech sector. In 1975, the largest 100 US companies accounted for nearly half of the earnings of all publicly listed companies; by 2015, their share reached 84 per cent.
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Republican Theocracy or the End of Neoliberalism?
| March 10, 2021
“QAnon Fears That Greene’s Obsession with Jewish Space Lasers Is Distracting Her from Battling Baby-Eating Cannibals”! In an emergency meeting of QAnon elders, the conspiracy theorists issued a communiqué warning … Keep reading »
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What’s In a Name-Change?
| March 9, 2021
Shernett Martin says her latest impetus for activism came with the murder of George Floyd, who died last May with the knee of a Minneapolis police officer on his neck. … Keep reading »
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Beyond McFeminism: The Socialist Origins of IWD in Canada
| March 8, 2021
When a California McDonald’s marked International Women’s Day (IWD) in 2018 by inverting its big M to a W, some happy meal consumers tweeted that it should stick to hamburgers … Keep reading »
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International Women’s Day: A Militant Celebration
| March 7, 2021
This proposal for an International Women’s Day, made at the Second International Women’s Conference at Copenhagen in 1910, appeared in the women’s magazine of the German Social Democratic Party, Die … Keep reading »
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Pharma Failure
| March 6, 2021
We discuss the failure of Bill C-213 to pass its Second Reading in the House of Commons. It would have started the process of creating a national pharmacare program in Canada. Listen to audio »
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How India’s Farmers’ Protests Could Upend the Political Landscape
| March 5, 2021
For the past three months, Indian farmers and agricultural workers have been in the middle of a difficult struggle against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tens of thousands … Keep reading »
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Fighting the Medical Monopoly: Mobilizing for ZERO-COVID and Decommodified Healthcare
| March 4, 2021
With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, ‘vaccine nationalism’ is only slightly more rife than the calls against it. The focus on ‘vaccine nationalism’ by critical thinkers and activists misses some … Keep reading »
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