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SAFTU -- This Is What We Stand For
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- Published on Monday, 24 April 2017 23:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1401 .... April 25, 2017
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SAFTU – This Is What We Stand For
Declaration of the Launching Congress of the South African Federation of Trade Unions
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has been born. We have passed a milestone in the history of the South African trade union movement at this Launching Congress held in Boksburg from 21-23 April 2017.
700,000 workers represented by 1,384 voting delegates from 24 unions and other non-voting unions have taken the first decisive step to building a new, vibrant, independent, and democratic workers’ federation, leading the struggle against exploitation, mass unemployment, poverty, inequality and corruption and taking up the struggle for the total emancipation of the working class from the chains of its capitalist oppressors.
Delegates formally adopted the...
ACTIVlist Update - April 24, 2017
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Trudeau government seeks 'progress' on Canada-China 'free trade' within two years Hamilton chapter joins anti-poverty protest to demand Toronto mayor opens the armouries, adds shelter beds
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The Trudeau government is signalling it wants to move quickly on 'free trade' with China before the October 2019 federal election.
The Council of Canadians Hamilton chapter joined with the Ontario Coalition against Poverty (OCAP) and others who camped outside Toronto Mayor John Tory's $2.4 million luxury...
Big news - new website launched!
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- Published on Monday, 24 April 2017 11:00
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Cambodia: Brewery giant Carlsberg seeks to punish union for defending workers' rights
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- Published on Monday, 24 April 2017 01:30
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In the Shadow of Social Democracy: Right-Wing Challenges and Left Alternatives
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- Published on Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1400 .... April 24, 2017
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In the Shadow of Social Democracy:
Right-Wing Challenges and Left Alternatives
Ingo Schmidt
We live in a paradoxical world. Much debate on the radical left revolves around multitudes of discontented groups -- sometimes lumped together as the 99%, sometimes rebranded as precariat -- struggling against an abstract empire and its 1% rulers. Capitalism and class -- once serving as a compass to navigate left politics through the apparently chaotic sees of everyday life -- have turned into subjects of theoretical debate with little to no connection to political praxis.
Vacated by the left, a new right adopted the language of class to appeal to those who were steamrolled and marginalized by economic globalization. Many of the policies advanced by the new right could have...
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South Africa, a Dream Betrayed
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- Published on Sunday, 23 April 2017 00:30
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 20 April 2017
South Africa, a Dream Betrayed:
Understanding the Political Crisis in South Africa
Since 1994, the political leaders of South Africa have attempted to solve the national question through the ‘de-racialization’ of the economy and society. How to remake the state without addressing the benefits and misfortunes of capitalism and racism in South Africa? The ANC-led governments linked the struggle against racism to the national task of creating and strengthening a black capitalist class. This was an integral part of their attempt at de-racialization within the class and property relations of capitalism. But the misfortunes of capitalism and racism in South Africa continue to take the form of mass poverty for the majority of its people. And in post-apartheid South Africa the wealth and privileges of the beneficiaries...
They're livid
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- Published on Saturday, 22 April 2017 09:45
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Paov: Big Telecom and their lobbyists are absolutely livid about our Net Neutrality victory.
Yesterday we wrote to you with exciting news that our movement had won rules to prevent telecom giants from manipulating data caps to make some apps and services more expensive than others. Since then our victory has been making headlines all over the world.
But today, telco shills and industry apologists have flocked to Twitter to express their outrage. They hate these rules, Paov....
Canadian Union Action in Support of Bangladesh Garment Workers
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- Published on Saturday, 22 April 2017 08:30
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ACTIVlist Update - April 21, 2017
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- Published on Friday, 21 April 2017 17:15
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Council contributes to CCPA-Nova Scotia's Alternative Provincial Budget, launced yesterday Canada-China Free Trade Agreement seen as profitable for Canadian water companies For-profit plasma clinic in Moncton expects Health Canada final approval by early June
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The CCPA-NS launched its' annual Alternative Provincial Budget, entitled "Building Green, Inclusive, Thriving Communities" yesterday in Halifax.
China faces huge water challenges.
The Canadian Press reports, "A controversial Ontario company that pays people for their blood plasma is set to...
This Earth Day, become part of the fight to protect the environment
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- Published on Friday, 21 April 2017 15:00
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We need help at Victoria area all-candidates meetings!
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- Published on Friday, 21 April 2017 14:45
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See the all-candidates meetings below.
Dear Fair Vote Canada supporters in Victoria,
In the past few days, both the BC NDP and BC Green Party have made platform commitments to electoral reform.
To make sure the candidates know this issue matters to voters, and to raise the profile of these important campaign promises, we are hoping that a question about electoral reform is raised at every all candidates meeting! We are also handing out postcards and flyers encouraging people to vote for parties which support PR.
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RELEASE: Accountability, Proportional Representation and the BC Election
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- Published on Friday, 21 April 2017 14:45
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For immediate release
As British Columbia voters get set to go to the polls on May 9, they will have their first opportunity to elect a government committed to proportional representation.
In recent interviews with Fair Vote Canada’s Victoria Chapter, NDP leader John Horgan and Green Party leader Andrew Weaver agreed they will be making electoral reform a platform issue. The Liberals and Conservatives have not responded to Fair Vote Canada’s requests for interviews or forwarded their position on electoral reform. 
The BC NDP commit to holding a referendum on proportional representation, and will campaign in favour of a yes vote. Unlike the previous referendum, Horgan has said this one will be based on 50% plus 1. See Horgan interview here.
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1 new update on the petitions you support, PAOV
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Standing up for the bees
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- Published on Friday, 21 April 2017 07:30
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Somalia: Stop attacks on journalists and other trade unionists
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- Published on Friday, 21 April 2017 05:30
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 21 April 2017 03:15
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What Basic Income Means for Disabled People
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- Published on Thursday, 20 April 2017 23:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1399 .... April 21, 2017
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What Basic Income Means for Disabled People
AJ Withers and John Clarke
Disabled people in Ontario are much more likely to experience poverty than non-disabled people. Many have to live on sub-poverty payments under the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) or the even more wretched income provided by Ontario Works (OW). Those that are in this situation are confronted by an ongoing process of surveillance, invasion of their privacy and moral policing. Those disabled people who are working, because of systemic discrimination, are less likely to be receiving living wages and are far more likely to be precariously employed. As anti poverty organizers, we fully understand the anger and desperation that such a situation generates.
On this basis, it is easy to see how,...
We won!
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- Published on Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:00
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This is absolutely wonderful, Paov. We just won again!
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) just decided in favour of historic Net Neutrality rules that prevent Big Telecom from unfairly manipulating data caps to discriminate against certain apps and services.1
Over the past year, 55,000 of you spoke up to show the CRTC how data caps are used to distort demand, hurt customers, and tilt the playing field in Big Telecoms’ favour2,3 – and today your voices had quite...
Oh no you don't, Mr. Pruitt
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- Published on Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:45
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