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Socialist Register 2019: The World Turned Upside Down
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- Published on Sunday, 10 February 2019 04:08
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 4 February 2019
Socialist Register 2019: The World Turned Upside Down
Introduced and moderated by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo. Featuring:
- Sam Gindin: Trumping the Empire.
- Nicole Aschoff: American’s tipping point? Between Trumpism and a new left.
- Colin Leys: Corbyn and Brexit Britain: Is there a way forward for the left?
SR 2019 poses two overarching questions for the Left in a new period opened by the Trump election and the continued growth of right-wing nationalism around the world.
Is there an unwinding of neoliberal globalization taking place, or will globalization continue to deepen, but still deny the free cross-border movement of labour? Would such an unwinding entail an overall shift in power and accumulation to specific regions of the Global South that might overturn the current world order and...
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With Lopez Obrador In, Workers Have the Confidence to Walk Out
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- Published on Saturday, 09 February 2019 00:04
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1758 ... February 9, 2019
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With López Obrador In, Workers Have the Confidence to Walk Out
David Bacon
The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as president of Mexico has raised the hopes and expectations of millions of Mexican workers. There could be no better evidence of this than the strike of tens of thousands of workers in Matamoros, a city at the eastern end of the U.S.-Mexico border, across the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo in Mexico) from Brownsville, Texas.
During the past month, between 30,000 and 40,000 of the 70,000 maquiladora workers in Matamoros plants have walked off their jobs. The maquiladoras are factories, mostly foreign-owned, that manufacture goods destined for sale in the United States. They are the product of a development policy begun by the...
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ACTIVlist Update - February 8, 2019
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- Published on Friday, 08 February 2019 11:26
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We Welcome Asylum Seekers and Defend Their Rights
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We — activists, scholars, writers and artists — strongly condemn President Trump’s efforts to vilify, intimidate, and use force against refugees and asylum seekers at and approaching the U.S. border.
More signs that pharmacare will be an election issue this fall
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh recently called for the implementation of universal pharmacare, raising speculation that a plan for publicly funded medications will be...
We're waiting with bated breath for BC Budget 2019
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- Published on Friday, 08 February 2019 10:28
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With less than two weeks until BC Budget 2019 when we hope to see big investments for the first...
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Green New Deal: Can the vortex spin any faster?
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- Published on Friday, 08 February 2019 05:02
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 08 February 2019 02:02
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"Babies with this condition do not tend to live past 2 years"
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- Published on Thursday, 07 February 2019 13:22
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Last day to become a member
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- Published on Thursday, 07 February 2019 09:42
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...McDonald's cruel secret
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- Published on Thursday, 07 February 2019 08:34
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Baby chickens used by McDonald’s suffer unimaginable cruelty during their short lives.
We're getting ready to expose this real-life horror movie to McDonald's customers. We need your help to fund devastating newspaper ads -- will you please chip in CA$93?
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In the three seconds it’s taken you to open this email, McDonald’s has sold over 250 Happy Meals. But inside each ‘Happy’ Meal lurks a very unhappy secret.
McDonald’s execs serve up adverts showing healthy chickens roaming in open fields. In reality,...
We finally got a BC Hydro Freedom of Information request back
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- Published on Thursday, 07 February 2019 07:06
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The American Left Resurgent: Prospects and Tensions
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- Published on Thursday, 07 February 2019 04:44
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1757 ... February 7, 2019
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The American Left Resurgent: Prospects and Tensions
Rafael Khachaturian and Sean Guillory
The American political system is experiencing a crisis of hegemony. The moderate, bipartisan center that had been the mythical linchpin of American politics during the “long Cold War” is facing the possibility of a terminal decline. Donald Trump’s election has put this crisis into stark relief, having turned the Republican Party’s decades long flirtations with white ethnonationalism into an overt endorsement.
At the same time, the organized left is also resurgent. This revival was first exemplified in Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, and turned more durable with Bernie Sanders’ insurgent campaign during the 2016 primaries. Sanders’ social democratic message galvanized the Democratic Party’s progressive base, and spurred the rapid growth...
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The most terrifying threat to Monsanto
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 February 2019 03:16
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A, Monsanto is in court, today.
Its toxic chemicals put father of two, Paul Francois, in repeated comas -- and now Paul’s asking you for help.
Your donation today will help pay legal fees for people, like Paul, who’ve been poisoned by Monsanto. So, A, are you in?
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 February 2019 11:24
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CBC Podcast, Secret Life of Canada: Hosts Falen Johnson and Leah-Simone Bowen ask Maude Barlow how we can start to give our bodies of water the respect they deserve. (Interview begins at 44:20) Call the Health Minister on Ford's privatization plan
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This morning, our worst fears were confirmed. The Ontario NDP released yet more leaked documents that further reveal Doug Ford’s scheme to privatize health care services across Ontario.
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Unist'ot'en
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 February 2019 04:10
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Coastal GasLink is suing Unist'ot'en Camp in an attempt to bankrupt the land protectors while it destroys their land to makes millions off a massive fracked gas pipeline.
Timing is critical as Coastal GasLink is already destroying Wet'suwet'en property with its construction activiity.
Can you chip in to support Unist'ot'en's legal battle?
(You’ll be sent to their secure donation page directly)
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Images of militarized RCMP officers brutally arresting Wet’suwet’en land protectors flooded the news after January 7th’s violent enforcement of an...
Hospital Overload: Ford Government Begins Its Assault on Ontario Hospitals
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 February 2019 01:06
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1756 ... February 5, 2019
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Hospital Overload: Ford Government Begins Its Assault on Ontario Hospitals
Ontario Health Coalition
The advisor on healthcare to the Ontario Conservative Government of Doug Ford, Rueben Devlin, released his report on January 31 with the headline that “more hospital beds will not solve hallway medicine,” subtly twisting – and contradicting – the Ford government’s election pledge. The Ontario Health Coalition immediately called the report out. Mr. Devlin, it should be noted, has a long history of driving cuts in the health sector and neoliberalizing delivery. He is the former CEO of Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto, where, under his leadership, three entire hospitals were closed and replaced with one privatized P3 hospital that had too few beds to serve its catchment population.
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"Gay hunts" in Chechnya
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- Published on Monday, 04 February 2019 14:42
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Oil companies have to pay for environmental cleanup : in the news this week
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- Published on Monday, 04 February 2019 11:14
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A Supreme Court ruling this week says bankrupt oil companies have to pay for environmental cleanup before paying off debt.When Alberta-based Redwater Energy Corporation went bankrupt in 2015, the company’s bankruptcy trustee tried to repay its $5-million debt back to its bank, leaving abandoned wells to the Orphan Well Association (OWA), an industry-owned association, to clean up.
When the Alberta Energy Regulator, also an industry-controlled body, said Redwater could not ignore its environmental responsibilities, the company took its case to court, arguing federal bankruptcy laws took precedence over provincial laws.
This week’s Supreme Court ruling in the Redwater case prevents bankrupt or insolvent companies from walking away from environmental obligations.
The top court’s decision is a “big deal,” writes David Climenhaga. Had the court ruled in favour of Redwater, “it would have opened the door to an effective strategy for fossil fuel extraction companies to walk away from the costs of cleaning up after themselves and dump billions of dollars in liabilities into the laps of provincial taxpayers,” he says.
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