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I’m speaking! (and you’re not)
We might ask whether, if Harris had been less adamant in her insistence that “I’m speaking!” and more willing to move on Israel, she might have persuaded enough of Biden’s 2020 voters—not only Muslim Americans, but progressives who campaigned for the Democrats in 2020 but were nauseated by Biden’s policies on Gaza—to support her. Instead, they flipped or stayed home.
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Stephen Harper’s ‘moral clarity’ in defence of Israeli exceptionalism
In spite of his prime ministerial law-and-order rhetoric, citizen Harper has no time for the International Court of Justice’s conclusions on Israel’s genocidal intent in Gaza and Amnesty International on Israeli apartheid. The former PM still considers Israel a credible ally in spite of the IDF’s ongoing campaign of destruction and territorial expansion across the Middle East.
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UCP members push to adopt more dangerous anti-trans policies
What’s so dangerous about the anti-trans policy resolutions the party endorsed isn’t that they will become legislation any time soon, but their effect of bolstering Smith’s claim that she’s pursuing a sensible middleground with the anti-trans legislation she’s already introduced. But when it comes to basic human rights, there is no middle ground.
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Another NDP candidate bites the dust after specious accusations of antisemitism
Israel and many of its supporters insist that a wide range of international organizations and bodies are antisemitic. And then Israel doubles down and the outrage against it grows and the outraged are denounced as antisemites. And on and on it goes. Where it stops, nobody knows. Perhaps until the “new” antisemitism turns into the “old” antisemitism?
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Winnipeg plant one of largest F-35 parts producers in Canada
Of the more than 100 companies in Canada that produce components for the F-35 combat aircraft, Mississauga-based Magellan Aerospace is one of the largest. Notably, it is also majority owned and chaired by billionaire N. Murray Edwards, the 35th richest person in Canada, who controls mining company Imperial Metals, responsible for the catastrophic Mount Polley tailings disaster.
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Another blow struck against Canada’s largest pro-Israel charity
In August, the Canada Revenue Agency notified JNF Canada that its charitable status was being revoked due to the organization’s contravention of Canadian charity law. This week, the JNF’s application for a judicial review of the revocation was denied. While this story is far from over, the ruling holds great significance for Palestine solidarity activists in Canada and around the world.
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‘The green transition is a myth’: Adam Hanieh on the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism
Many vital left-wing books about global oil politics have been published over the last decade: Mazen Labban’s Space, Oil and Capital, Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy, and Simon Pirani’s Burning Up. Perhaps none have provided quite as sweeping and synthetic of an analysis as Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market.
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The destruction of the UN is the destruction of the world
The destruction of Palestine means the destruction of the UN, and the destruction of the UN carries with it a grave risk of the destruction of life on this planet. The climate movement needs to fight to keep the UN alive at the same time as we demand that it adopt a more robust framework to confront the challenge head-on. Right now, that means opposing genocide and rejecting our government’s complicity in it.
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Why socialists need to understand the legacy of Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady
For Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady, the struggle for socialism was inextricable from the struggle for Indigenous rights. Their vision of social and economic democracy was rooted in the Métis experience of violence, racism, and dispossession at the hands of the Canadian state, including after the 1870 Red River Resistance, and the implementation of the scrip system.
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Attempt to censor Francesca Albanese part of larger Israeli campaign to hobble UN
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, just wrapped up a speaking tour of eastern Canada. But pro-Israel lobby organizations tried every trick in their well-thumbed playbook to bar the renowned human rights jurist and scholar from doing the job she was assigned by the UN for a three-year term in 2022.