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SSS 50th Anniversary: Socialism Historically and Today
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Socialist Studies 50th Anniversary Plenary:
Socialism Historically and Today
This year, the Society for Socialist Studies (SSS) turns fifty, and celebrated its anniversary at its annual conference at Congress 2017, hosted by Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario from May 30 – June 2, 2017.
The theme of the Conference for 2017 was "Liberation Here and Now: Continuity and Change in Socialist Studies at 50 Years and Beyond." Diverging from the Congress theme, "From Far and Wide: The Next 150," the SSS called upon participants to fundamentally 'trouble' Project Canada, to celebrate past and future resistances and solidarities, and to engage in dialogue on how to get to a decolonized praxis and collective liberation here and now.
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Solidarity With Protest Movement in Morocco
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- Published on Friday, 21 July 2017 22:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1453 .... July 22, 2017
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Solidarity With Protest Movement in Morocco
Several civil society organizations have voiced their support for protests in Morocco and other North African countries facing growing state repression, resource theft and imperialist expansion. They call for respect for people's rights and just development.
On 26 June, the first day of Eid celebrations, a popular march that was organized in the town of Hoceima, northern Morocco, was brutally repressed. The people of the Rif region decided to organize the "Eid March" in order to demand the release of their sons and daughters imprisoned in the previous few weeks and to denounce the ongoing violence and intimidation that the state is using against their resistance through a wide campaign of jailing and kidnapping of their activists and leaders.
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This Country Just Banned Styrofoam-Like Containers
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- Published on Friday, 21 July 2017 07:15
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Privatizing HealthcaMore Private Funding of Hospitals
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- Published on Thursday, 20 July 2017 22:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1452 .... July 21, 2017
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Privatizing Healthcare:
More Private Funding of Hospitals
Doug Allan
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports that total expenditures on Ontario hospitals increased to $23.7-billion in 2016. This is an increase of 2.4% since 2015 and 6.1% since 2012. While provincial government expenditures increased 4.7% over the four years between 2012 and 2016, private sector expenditures on hospitals increased at a much faster rate -- 15.8%. That is more than three times the percentage increase of the provincial government increases.
Private sector expenditures increased $124.9-million in 2016 to $3.62-billion. That was a typical increase. The four year private sector increase was $493.1-million, averaging $123.3-million per year. That's a lot more than chump change.
Hospitals are now relying significantly more on private sector...
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Mining Permits Issued During Wildfire Evacuation
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Iranian sugar workers need our solidarity today
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Here's why the new Canada Food Guide is good for animals
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- Published on Thursday, 20 July 2017 06:15
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Dear PAOV,
For the first time in over a decade, Health Canada is planning some progressive changes to the Canada Food Guide! A draft of the government's new healthy food recommendations was just released, and it's good news for animals: The draft promotes plant-based protein sources and eliminates dairy as a food group.
The new recommendations also encourage Canadians to avoid saturated fat, which is found almost exclusively in animal-based foods.
A shift away from meat and dairy products is an exciting change that would greatly benefit the lives of animals, human health, and the environment.
But the meat, dairy, and egg industries won't let this...
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Trumping NAFTA: Free Trade versus Democratic Planning
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 July 2017 21:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1451 .... July 20, 2017
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Trumping NAFTA: Free Trade versus Democratic Planning
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Opposition to ‘free trade’ is in the air again, though not in the way most of us expected or hoped. Three decades ago, the move to guarantee, extend and deepen Canada’s economic integration with the United States by way of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two states mobilized an impressive though ultimately unsuccessful opposition. This opposition continued, though with less intensity, when that agreement was later extended to include Mexico via the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Since then, however, with so many other free trade agreements (taking these first ones as their foundational model) deployed as key political levers in fostering neoliberal globalization, NAFTA came to be widely perceived by labour...
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The loss of her son saved lives
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News from the Ecosocialist Coalition
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 July 2017 16:15
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Save the Date.
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 July 2017 09:30
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It’s that time of year again!
This year’s Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park will be on September 23, 2017.
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The Ordeal of Hassan Diab
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- Published on Monday, 17 July 2017 22:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1450 .... July 18, 2017
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The Ordeal of Hassan Diab
Judith Deutsch
In December 2014, Hassan Diab, the former Carleton University sociology professor, husband to Rania, father of a lovely toddler daughter and one month before the birth of their delightful baby son, was whisked from his home by Canadian officials and extradited to France. The reason: suspicion that he was involved in the bombing of a Paris synagogue in 1980. It did not seem to matter to Canadian and French authorities that he was in Beirut at the time of the bombing, that his fingerprints did not match the proffered evidence and that the handwriting analysis was flawed. There was no personal history that could connect Hassan Diab in any way with this deed, and Canadian judge Maranger said...
Dirty denim needs to come clean
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Report back: Paov helps defeat polio.
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Hey Paov,
Canada’s recent commitment of $100M towards the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is not only a victory in the fight to eradicate polio, it is also a testament to what our community of Global Citizens (over 600,000 strong in Canada!) can achieve.
Tens of thousands of Global Citizens, like you and me, took the time to get informed and take action.
From sending tweets to signing petitions to yelling out “End polio now” at music festivals across the country, Canadians stood together to call for a world without polio. As...
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