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Defeating Harper from Below
The swaggeringly pro-capitalist, neoliberal and militarist Harper juggernaut makes enquiring into its limits seem impertinent. So, prima facie, do developments elsewhere. The 2008 financial crisis, the greatest crisis of neoliberalism, appeared to reinforce the power of capital everywhere. However, a longer historical perspective appears more encouraging.
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May Day 2013
Stock markets around the world have made up the losses they incurred during the 2008–09 financial crisis and the workers of the world are paying the price for this recovery. Fiscal stimulus packages and bank bailouts that helped to contain the crisis left governments with deficits that are now being used as a pretext for spending cuts and layoffs in the public sector. At the same time, rising unemployment has had a dampening effect on wages. Losing a decently paid job to join the ranks of the working poor is very common these days. The pervasive feelings of social insecurity amongst workers is the greatest in decades.
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Is the NDP becoming Liberal Lite?
The NDP’s future success depends on increasing people’s expectations of what is possible – not further decreasing them.
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A Flip of the Finger for this FIPA
When I look at the deal our PM signed with China in September, I worry. And you should too.
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Huge Chavez confronts (neo) liberal democracy
At the root of this disgust with Chávez’s repeated election victories is the consensus amongst the big media players and their commentators that democracy is fine so long as it produces the correct — that is, free market — results. Otherwise it is highly problematic and even dangerous.
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Whatever Happened to the Saskatchewan NDP?
Review of New Directions in Saskatchewan Public Policy.
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Harper’s health scheme will mean ‘Goin’ Down the Road’ for Maritimers
By dramatically changing the health care funding formula, is Prime Minister Stephen Harper showing little concern for the future of the Maritime provinces?
The Health Accord “deal” that Harper practically threw in the face of the provinces and territories this week, not only cuts health funding for all the provinces starting in four years, but threatens to further widen the growing standard-of-living chasm between the “have” and “have not” provinces.
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Dinner for two’ for first journalist who dares to explain Conservative ideology
Nick Fillmore offers his personal thanks, and dinner on him, for the winning journalist and media organization that sees the light and understands the importance of telling the truth when it comes to the Harper Conservative government and its’ agenda!
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The Left’s Responses to the Crisis in Europe and North America
A Panel discussion chaired by Greg Albo including Stephanie Ross, Leo Panitch, Bill Fletcher on the Left’s Response to the Crisis in North America and Europe.
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Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
In today’s media, progressive and small-l liberal ideas that champion the public interest are missing. In our liberal-oriented country, many newspapers do not have even one moderately progressive columnist writing on economic and political issues.
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