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Author |
Title |
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| 324. |
March 12, 2010 |
Matthew Brett |
The Newly Benevolent Harper |
| Anyone who monitors Canadian media closely will recognize the recent and drastic shift in policy, or at least rhetoric, stemming from the PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) and Cabinet. It started with a lofty call issued by the Prime Minister on January 26, just prior to the World Economics Forum in Switzerland. |
| 323. |
March 11, 2010 |
Thomas Marois |
Workers, Banking, and Crisis in Mexico |
| A striking feature of the global financial crisis is the narrow and technical focus on banks and financial corporations without accounting for ordinary workers in these institutions and in society more broadly. Yet through the intensification of work, workers have also underwritten the profitability of finance. This has been generally ignored. |
| 322. |
March 10, 2010 |
Rafeef Ziadah |
A View From Toronto – A Hub of “Israel Delegitimization” |
| As a Palestinian refugee, the city of Toronto has always been a place of exile to me. I usually think of it as a large (rather cold) waiting room on my way back to Haifa where my grandparents were born. However, following the publication of a recent report by the prominent Israeli think-tank, the Reut Institute, I felt some pride for my adopted city. |
| 321. |
March 8, 2010 |
Alexandra Kollontai |
‘Women's Day’ |
| This year marks the celebrating of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day (IWD). International Women’s Day was proclaimed at the meeting of the Second International of socialist parties in Copenhagen in 1910, following on years of campaigning by women in the labour and socialist movements for equality. |
| 320. |
March 4, 2010 |
Judy Rebick |
Israel Is an Apartheid State and That is Why They Are Losing Legitimacy |
| Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can't remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this. Perhaps during the 1950s when McCarthyism was rampant but that was before my time. |
| 319. |
March 2, 2010 |
Paul Kahnert |
The Case For Keeping Our Hydro Utilities Public |
| Most people don't pay much attention to electricity, except when the lights are out or when they get their bill. But, they soon will. The most valuable asset in virtually every Ontario municipality is its hydro utility. For 90 plus years, local municipal hydro utilities ran at cost and returned ‘profits’ to residents in the form of lower and stable rates. |
| 318. |
March 1, 2010 |
Shourideh Molavi |
Ontario MPPs Ignore International Denunciations of Israeli Apartheid |
| On February 25, a group of Ontario Members of Provincial Parliament (MPP) voted unanimously on a motion to “denounce” this year's Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). Claiming to send a message of so-called “moral suasion” to all “fair-minded Ontarians,” Peter Shurman, the MPP who tabled the motion, argued that the mere application of the phrase 'Israeli apartheid' is “about as close to hate speech as one can get without being arrested.” |
| 317. |
February 23, 2010 |
Priscillia Lefebvre |
Post-Strike Musings: Assessing the Outcome of the Museum Workers’ Struggle |
| On December 15th, after a strike lasting 86-days, PSAC workers voted to accept the tentative agreement reached between Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Local 70396’s bargaining unit and the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC). The strike occurred after weeks of stalled negotiations resulted in an offer deemed unacceptable by 92% of the voting membership. |
| 316. |
February 22, 2010 |
Federico Fuentes |
Venezuela’s Revolution Faces Crucial Battles |
| Decisive battles between the forces of revolution and counter-revolution loom on the horizon in Venezuela.
The campaign for the September 26 National Assembly elections will be a crucial battle between the supporters of socialist President Hugo Chavez and the U.S.-backed right-wing opposition. |
| 315. |
February 20, 2010 |
Michael A. Lebowitz |
Socialism: the Goal, the Paths and the Compass |
| There's an old saying that if you don't know where you want to go, any road will take you there. As I've said on many occasions, this saying is mistaken. If you don’t know where you want to go, no road will take you there. In other words, you need an understanding of the goal. You need a vision for the future. |
| 314. |
February 19, 2010 |
Tyler Shipley |
Pro-sports, Anti-Olympics: Reclaiming the games, From the Games |
| One of the first photographs I ever posed for was of my dad and me skating on our frozen backyard in Winnipeg. I wasn't even a year old but I was already engaged in an activity that would frame my moral and ideological compass for the better part of three decades (and counting.) Hockey has given me community – even as it has been used to legitimate politics that destroy communities. |
| 313. |
February 16, 2010 |
Roger Annis |
Thousands Protest Opening of Vancouver Winter Olympics |
| Five thousand people took to the streets here on February 12 to protest the opening of the corporate spectacle known as the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. The largest social rights action in Vancouver in many years coincided with the Games’ opening ceremony at a downtown arena attended by 60,000 people. |
| 312. |
February 15, 2010 |
Socialist Project |
The Venezuelan Call for a New International Organization of the Left |
| The call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for discussion of the formation of a ‘Fifth International’ has generated a lot of debate amongst the left around the world. As an addendum to the ‘Caracas Commitment’ of November 2009, a resolution was passed to form a preparatory committee... |
| 311. |
February 12, 2010 |
Bahare Farda |
The Need for Consistent Politics In the Wake of 22 Bahman |
| February 11, or 22 Bahman, marks the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. On this day, massive street fights between government troops loyal to the Pahlavi dynasty and Iranians opposing its repressive rule culminated in a final collapse of the last monarchy of Iran. |
| 310. |
February 11, 2010 |
Joanne Naiman |
The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism: What It Means For Canadians |
| We are here tonight primarily to hear about the effects of an illegal occupation and war on the people of Gaza, and to express our solidarity with the Palestinian people. In the anti-apartheid movement, a popular slogan was the old Wobbly saying “An injury to one is an injury to all.” What I hope to show you tonight is that, indeed, the “injuries” affecting people half way around the world are about to have serious consequences for us all. |
| 309. |
February 10, 2010 |
Anthony Fenton |
Foundation for “Political Warfare” Takes Cue from U.S. Strategy |
| Indicating further integration with its closest neighbour and ally's foreign policy priorities, the Canadian government is in the advanced stages of establishing a foundation to promote liberal democracy, akin to the controversial U.S. National Endowment for Democracy. |
| 308. |
February 9, 2010 |
Richard Fidler |
People's Summit Against War and Militarism to be Held in Montréal |
| The Montréal-based antiwar collective Échec à la guerre (which translates roughly as “Stop war”) is organizing a People’s Summit Against War and Militarism to be held March 19-21 in that city. Featuring workshops and panels as well as a plenary session that will issue a Joint Declaration. |
| 307. |
February 6, 2010 |
Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber |
Consolidating the Coup in Honduras? Pepe Lobo, Imperialism, and the Resistance |
| A country of sharp inequality and class polarization, Honduras recently returned to the frontlines in the battle for Latin America’s soul. The terrain of struggle has shifted on multiple occasions over the last seven months, following the military coup against the democratically-elected President, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya. |
| 306. |
February 5, 2010 |
Jeffery R. Webber |
Honduran Resistance in the Streets of Tegucigalpa |
| Interview with Rafael Alegría, a key leader in the National Resistance Front. |
| 305. |
February 4, 2010 |
Roger Annis |
Olympic Flame Parades Through Ravaged Northern British Columbia |
| February 2, 2010 — The Vancouver Winter Olympic torch relay is winding its way across northern British Columbia this week. It arrived in the coastal town of Kitimat yesterday. The celebration was subdued. Like most towns on the relay’s route, Kitimat is suffering huge economic blows from the barons of the natural resource industries that are the mainstay of the province’s economy. |
| 304. |
February 3, 2010 |
Liisa Schofield and John Clarke |
A Call to Action Against the Cuts to Come |
| The Ontario Government's pre-budget consultations are currently underway at Queen's Park. The Federal budget is set to be released at the beginning of March (that is unless Harper decides for another spontaneous vacation), with the Ontario Budget, and most Provincial budgets, then set to be released by the end of March or beginning of April. |
| 303. |
February 2, 2010 |
Andrew Jackson |
Beyond “Stimulus”: Fiscal Policy After the Great Recession |
| As the communiqué from the Pittsburgh G20 summit put it, “it worked.” Unprecedented macro-economic stimulus in the form of ultra low interest rates and large government deficits has pulled the global economy back from the abyss, at least for now. But what comes next? |
| 302. |
February 1, 2010 |
Aidan Macdonald |
Carleton’s War Portfolio: Students Demand Divestment from Apartheid |
| General Dynamics. Shell. Apache Corporation. Philip Morris. Pfizer. These are weapons manufacturers, oil companies, mining corporations, tobacco companies, and pharmaceutical giants. Notorious war profiteers, environmental destroyers, and human rights violators. |
| 301. |
January 29, 2010 |
Todd Gordon, Jeffery R. Webber, Carlos Danilo Amador |
Canadian Mining and Popular Resistance in Honduras |
| In the case of Valle de Siria, where the Canadian mining company Goldcorp is active, the company has essentially come to destroy our natural resources, to divide families in our communities. Valle de Siria is a community in which people lived off of agriculture and raising animals before the arrival of Goldcorp. Once Goldcorp became active in Valle de Siria, through the project of San Martín, all of this [agriculture and farming] went under. |
