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Thunder Bay Strike Grinds On - Unifor Ups the Ante
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- Published on Monday, 16 July 2018 02:00
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Border Capitalism, Disrupted
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- Published on Sunday, 15 July 2018 20:33
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1641 ... July 16, 2018
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Border Capitalism, Disrupted:
Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone
Stephen Campbell
Through to the back of the cremation grounds where the fields of sugarcane begin, Ko Soe and I coast our bicycles to a stop. It is mid-December, and the sugarcane stocks are tall now, taller than us. Somewhere amid these fields Myanmar migrant workers from the nearby Apex garment factory are hiding. We know this because Ko Soe had only minutes ago been talking with one of them by phone, but then the connection had died; presumably this worker’s phone had run out of power. So now we dismount and look around for an entrance into the fields. The sugarcane is far too dense to walk through, even if we were...
"She cries through painful therapy treatment"
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- Published on Sunday, 15 July 2018 13:51
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Ontario Fights Back: Recalling the Harris years
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- Published on Saturday, 14 July 2018 21:53
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Ontario Fights Back: Recalling the Harris years
Canada, and its industrial heartland and largest province of Ontario, is far from immune from the right-wing populist forces gaining electoral ground and organizational force around the world. The June 7th election of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC), led by the politician, businessman and blowhard Doug Ford, to a majority government is an all-too-clear example.
Canada has gone through a number of more or less reactionary and austerity-driven Conservative governments, most recently that of Stephen Harper from 2006–2015, but also at the provincial level in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In the past, Ontario was ruled by moderate PC governments for forty years before they lost power to Liberal and then NDP governments, both experimenting in the centre-left ‘progressive competitiveness’ strategy of high-skills, value-added protection...
Ireland's on the right side of history. What about Canada?
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- Published on Saturday, 14 July 2018 10:03
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I’m writing this with a Guinness clutched in one hand, because this week the government of Ireland gave us a big reason to celebrate: it became the first nation on earth to commit to fully divesting from fossil fuel companies. Once the bill is rubber-stamped by the Senate, Ireland's €8bn sovereign fund will start to ditch all its oil, coal and gas assets. This is exactly the kind of leadership we need in the midst of a climate crisis.
But unfortunately, by buying out a dying pipeline project, your Prime Minister and self-styled climate champion, Justin Trudeau has cemented a place for himself on the wrong side of history. That’s why it’s more important than ever to speak up on Trudeau’s buy out of the Trans Mountain pipeline...
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What's Behind the Trade War?
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- Published on Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:21
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1640 ... July 13, 2018
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What’s Behind the Trade War?
David M. Kotz
President Trump slaps tariffs on imports from many of the USA’s traditional allies, condemning their leaders for unfair treatment. The mainstream media warns of the erosion of the global order.
President Trump threatens, and then imposes, high tariffs on Chinese products and other restrictions on trade relations with China. ZTE corporation, a leading state-owned, high-tech company in China, is barred on national security grounds from importing U.S.-made components that are essential to their products. Then the ZTE action is reversed, leading some Democratic senators to denounce Trump for going soft on China.
Whose side should we be on, if any, in this burgeoning trade war?
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Salmon in the Arctic?
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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Mandatory sexual assault training for judges?
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- Published on Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:21
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We're not magicians
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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Amazon
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 July 2018 08:15
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On May 30th, I spoke before dozens of protesters outside Amazon’s annual general meeting, demanding an end to Amazon’s war on workers, low-income communities, and taxes.
But I’m not a politician or a public speaker. I’m just an ordinary guy who decided I couldn’t sit by and watch Amazon steamroll our communities.
I saw Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fight with Donald Trump in public, while quietly getting massive tax breaks from Trump’s new tax law. I saw cities competing to be home to Amazon’s HQ2, offering incentives that will end up driving rent up and hurting working class communities of color. I saw a chance to speak out, and I took it.
Join me and become a member leader in the fight for accountability at Amazon.
On May 30th I met up with other SumOfUs members to protest while...
Hassan Diab: Nothing Less Than a Public Inquiry Will Do
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 July 2018 01:17
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1639 ... July 11, 2018
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Hassan Diab: Nothing Less Than a Public Inquiry Will Do
Michelle Weinroth
He has been compared to Alfred Dreyfus, the iconic 19th-century French victim of false accusation and racism. The entire spectrum of the Canadian press has covered his unfolding story since its inception in 2007. His return to Canada from France in January 2018 was breaking news. An Ottawa sociology professor, Dr. Diab is the Canadian citizen who, at the behest of France, was sought for extradition. Subject to allegations of involvement in the bombing of a Paris synagogue in 1980, he was pursued and harassed by the RCMP in 2008. Arrested on November 13th of that year, denied bail, and jailed in the disreputable Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre, he was then released in...
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It's as simple as ABC!
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:42
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Vaquita will disappear forever
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 July 2018 04:11
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Slovenias Parliamentary Elections
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- Published on Monday, 09 July 2018 21:49
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1638 ... July 10, 2018
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Slovenia’s Parliamentary Elections:
A Xenophobic Right, a Fragmented Centre and a Rising Left
Nejc Slukan
The outcome of the recent Slovenian elections shows a fragmented political landscape, a worrying increase in support for right-wing populism and luckily, an electoral gain for the left’s Levica party that has strengthened its position and improved its manoeuvering space.
On 3 June, Slovenia went to the voting stations to elect a new parliament. The vote took place about a month before the planned ordinary elections, almost three months after the SMC-led government resigned in a tactical manoeuvre after seeing its support dwindle. The supposedly left-liberal government coalition, composed of the centrist SMC party led by Miro Cerar, the Social Democrats and the single-issue oriented DeSUS (The Democratic party...
Canada's music industry wants you to pay up
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- Published on Monday, 09 July 2018 10:37
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The Canadian music industry is refusing to move out of the Stone Age—and they...
University professor sacked for his union activity
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- Published on Monday, 09 July 2018 09:00
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The secret ingredient in French cosmetics
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- Published on Monday, 09 July 2018 05:30
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Your Yves Rocher cosmetics are costly... in fundamental human rights. The French cosmetics giant just sacked more than 120 factory workers in Turkey because they joined a union. Demand Yves Rocher respects workers rights, in France AND abroad.
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French cosmetics giant Yves Rocher has brutally sacked 124 workers at its Turkish subsidiary Kosan Kozmetik. Their crime? Joining a union to defend themselves against degrading salaries and working conditions. The freedom to join a union is a right enshrined by the Turkish Constitution and by the International Labour...USA: farmworkers fired for speaking out against abuses
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- Published on Monday, 09 July 2018 02:37
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Ontario Election 2018: Right-Wing Populism Prevails Over Moderate Social Democracy
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- Published on Monday, 09 July 2018 00:52
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1637 ... July 9, 2018
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Ontario Election 2018:
Right-Wing Populism Prevails Over Moderate Social Democracy
Matt Fodor
In the June 7 provincial election, Ontario politics took a sharp turn to the right as the Progressive Conservatives (PCs), under the leadership of the populist businessman and former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford, steamrolled to a majority government. The PCs took 40.5 per cent of the popular vote and 76 out of 124 seats in the Ontario legislature, putting an end to the 15-year reign of the Ontario Liberals. The Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP), under the leadership of Andrea Horwath, catapulted from their third-place position to Official Opposition, and received 33.6 per cent of the popular vote and 40 seats. Meanwhile, Premier Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals suffered a catastrophic defeat,...
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