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The Assault on Public Services
Today, the message is that if you don’t like the way things are, tough — you have no alternative. The real lesson of course is that if the present economic system can’t offer us a better life, then it is that system, not our expectations that needs changing.
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Organized Labour and the Occupations Movement
As the small encampment in lower Manhattan has swelled and spread to cities across the country, the rallying cry of the “99%” has at least momentarily introduced the mainstream discourse to a conception of class, which is usually missing from the political theater showcased on corporate news outlets.
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2011: Reflecting on Social Movement Successes in Canada
Working through and across differences—while maintaining the diversity of an inter-generational anti-oppression and radical politics—has strengthened the terrain for inclusive, participatory, and revolutionary struggle in Canada for the upcoming year.
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Labour Law in Harper’s Canada: New Directions, New Challenges
Despite all of the worry from progressives of what the Conservatives would do with a majority government, few gave thought to what a Conservative government would do to the labour movement and to labour law. Do the Conservatives have a secret agenda to undermine Canada’s unions?
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Imperialism and Democracy: White House or Liberty Square?
The relation between imperialism and democracy has been debated and discussed over 2500 years, from fifth century Athens to Liberty Park in Manhattan.
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The Keystone XL Pipeline: Part II
Promises of great wealth and vast public benefits generously spread through the streets and into the domiciles of each and every resident are standard for the oil and gas industry when it is trying to wedge a massive new project, like the Keystone XL Pipeline, into the political and physical landscape.
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Chavez versus Obama
Two incumbent presidents are running for re-election in 2012, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Barack Obama in the United States. What makes these two electoral contests significant is that they represent contrasting responses to the global economic crises.
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European and US Working Class Politics: Right, Left and Neutered
The deepening economic crises in Europe and the United States are provoking contrasting socio-political responses from the working and middle classes.
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Was CUPW Defeat Inevitable?
Trade unionists across Canada should feel shame in the wake of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ totally predictable crushing defeat by the jubilant Harpies. And we should finally feel a cold shiver of fear.
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Statement in response to Magazines Canada’s support for back-to-work legislation for CUPW
As representatives of independent Canadian publications, we were alarmed to see yesterday’s statement from Magazines Canada CEO Mark Jamison applauding Minister of Labour Lisa Raitt’s decision to introduce back-to-work legislation to force locked-out Canada Post employees back to work.
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