Korean Unions Call for a Just Energy Transition

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Published on Tuesday, 15 August 2017 04:00

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1468 .... August 15, 2017
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Korean Unions Call for a Just Energy Transition

In a series of landmark statements following the May 2017 election of the pro-reform President Moon Jae-in, Korean energy, transport and public service workers have called for "a just energy transition" allowing the sector to "function as a public asset under public control." Unions support the new government’s decision to close the country’s aging coal-fired and nuclear power stations, and its planned reconsideration of two new nuclear facilities -- Kori 5 and Kori 6.

In a statement issued in late July, the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union (KPTU) and the Korean Labour and Social Network on Energy (KLSNE), a coalition of unions and civil society organizations, said, "We actively support the policy of phasing out...

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As Canadians We Need to Tell Nygard to Own Up!

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Published on Monday, 14 August 2017 06:05

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An Injury to One is an Injury to All? U.S. Labours Divergent Reactions to Trump

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Published on Saturday, 12 August 2017 22:45

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1467 .... August 13, 2017
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An Injury to One is an Injury to All?
U.S. Labour’s Divergent Reactions to Trump

Jonathan Rosenblum

Arshiya Chime is a union member helping to rescue the world from climate change. Once she gets her doctorate degree later this year from the University of Washington, she will become a highly prized mechanical engineer, helping economies become less dependent on oil while protecting the environment and creating jobs. But Chime, a leader in her graduate student employees union, United Auto Workers Local 4121, is not welcome in Donald Trump’s vision of America. As an Iranian immigrant, she’s denied the right to freely travel. If Trump’s Muslim travel ban orders ultimately are upheld, Chime would probably have to take her expertise to another country, because U.S. firms...

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EXPOSED: Zoo Cruelty Caught on Hidden Camera

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Papanack Zoo, a roadside zoo in Ottawa, was just exposed for disturbing animal cruelty in new footage released by Animal Justice. The secretly-recorded video reveals:

• Zoo management admitting to beating a baby lion
• A raccoon, skunk and bobcat prodded and having their mouths pried open with a cord during a photoshoot for the reality TV show ‘Billy Goes North’
• Baby animals stolen from their mothers to be used as selfie props
• Animals confined in tiny cages exhibiting repetitive stereotypic behaviour—often a sign of severe mental distress

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FINAL APPROVAL: Bayer-Monsanto

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Indigenous Representatives Head To UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) In Geneva

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Six Glaring Issues with the Supreme Court Line 9 Decision

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Published on Thursday, 10 August 2017 22:15

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1466 .... August 11, 2017
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Six Glaring Issues with the Supreme Court Line 9 Decision

David Gray-Donald

On 26 July, the Supreme Court of Canada announced its decision regarding Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline. The Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, located near London, Ontario, had argued that due process had not been followed in the government approving significant changes to the existing pipeline. The Supreme Court ruled against the Chippewas of the Thames, and in favour of the National Energy Board and, in effect, Enbridge.

From a close reading of the Supreme Court decision, many glaring issues become apparent. Six of them are summarized here.

1. Aboriginal and treaty rights are mentioned by the Supreme Court, but no specific treaties are named or discussed.

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PHOTOS: One of Canadas Costliest, Most Contaminated Mine Sites

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Successful Convention Moves DSA to Left

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Published on Tuesday, 08 August 2017 23:30

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1465 .... August 9, 2017
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Successful Convention Moves DSA to Left

Dan La Botz

The socialist movement in the United States took a big step forward this past weekend as almost 700 delegates representing over 25,000 members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) met at the organization's biennial national convention in Chicago (Aug. 3-6, 2017). This convention, the first since DSA more than tripled in size following last year's election, brought together delegates from all of the country's major cities and many towns, large and small.

Most were new members who had joined in the last year either came out of the Bernie Sanders campaign or joined in reaction to the frightening prospect of the Donald Trump presidency. The convention cohered the hundreds of new members into a...

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A Gap in Marx? Value, Nature and Society

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Published on Monday, 07 August 2017 23:15

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1464 .... August 8, 2017
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A Gap in Marx? Value, Nature and Society

Elmar Altvater

So many accusations have been levelled against Karl Marx and, to an even greater extent, his friend and co-author Friedrich Engels in the 150 years since Capital was first published (in German in 1867) that the charges are almost too many to list. Unlike the political economists that came before him, Marx was supposedly unable to explain price formation. What is more, according to his critics, the predicted immiseration of the working class never occurred, and capitalism was not in a state of collapse, but has instead emerged victorious from the battle between competing social systems.

Marx and Engels are also accused of having paved the way for Stalin’s atrocities with their theoretical and...

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Whatever Became of the CCF's Dream?

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Published on Sunday, 06 August 2017 22:45

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1463 .... August 7, 2017
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Whatever Became of the CCF's Dream?

J. F. Conway

A dramatic shift in electoral politics is currently disrupting leading capitalist democracies, challenging the ideological hegemony and legitimacy of the global neoliberalism of late capitalism.

In the U.S., Bernie Sanders, a self-declared democratic socialist, almost won the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. At the outset of the primaries, the nomination was widely viewed as a slam-dunk for Hilary Clinton. Some polls since the election report that Sanders may well have defeated Donald Trump.

In the UK, the Labour Party, under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, came close to winning the election, despite the conviction of the right wing of his own party, which repeatedly tried to oust him, and the mass media, that Corbyn...

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