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BRICS grows, adding 13 new 'partner countries' at historic summit in Kazan, Russia

Kamala Harris Vows to End Gaza War

187 Countries Demand an End to the U.S. Blockade Against Cuba

Time to Put an End to World Bank Impunity

Trump Is Planning a Third Red Scare

All That Remains of Neoliberal Identity Politics Is Fascism

Investors, not immigrants, are fuelling the housing crisis

The Israel Lobby Wants You Suspended, Fired Or In Prison

Substituting Homeownership For Pensions Undermines Solidarity

Kamala Harris’s Campaign Is Not in a Good Place

President Petro Is Not Alone: Colombia Marches Against Coup Attempt

Lebanon: Israel uses military assassinations to legitimize civilian massacres

Nobel Peace Prize winner: Gaza like Japan after U.S. atomic bombs

Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital age

The Badly Tarnished Nobel Peace Prize is Finally Awarded to a Group that Truly Deserves It

Blame Governments, Not Immigrants, For The Housing Crisis

Despite Chrystia Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi genocide

Trump threatens to punish de-dollarization: 'I would not allow countries to go off the dollar'

They Now Know What Real Bombing Means: The Forty-First Newsletter (2024)

How US Big Tech monopolies colonized the world: Welcome to neo-feudalism

The pitfalls of growth under unrestricted trade

Liberals and Tories perfected the exploitation of migrants for big business

NATO Turns Global and Expands Theatres of Escalation

Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2024)

To Confront Rising Neofascism, the Latin American Left Must Rediscover Itself

Bangladesh: the ‘Global South’ debt crisis intensifies – Michael Roberts Blog

Venezuela: Over 30 Million Cyber Attacks Per Minute Since July 28

JD Vance is no pauper − he’s a classic example of ‘poornography,’ in which the rich try to speak on behalf of the poor

The Google monopoly ruling won’t save the internet

Creeping no more: Health care privatization in full gallop in New Brunswick

The Way We Measure Unemployment In Canada Is Broken

National Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise Venezuelan election process

Breaking Britain All Over Again

Appeasing Murdoch Is Never Good News

Venezuela: Maduro Wins Presidential Elections

The REIT-ification of housing

Saltwire takeover would give Postmedia a coast-to-coast monopoly

Silicon Valley’s dangerous plan for a second Trump term

Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand: Peace in Korea and Northeast Asia Now!

Sending unarmed responders instead of police: What we’ve learned

China’s Third Plenum – Michael Roberts Blog

China brokers a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups

The Country of the Rust Belt and the Broken Road: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2024)

How Latin America Can Delink from Imperialism

The spy who kept notes

Delusions and paranoia in NATOland

The Korean Linchpin: The Korean Peninsula’s Enduring Centrality in U.S. Indo-Pacific Geostrategy

They Are Making the Waters of the Pacific Dangerous

Israeli Settlers Believe Their Moment Has Come

Crowd strikes out – Michael Roberts Blog

Chavistas Warn About Escalation of Media Warfare Against Venezuela’s Elections (+Machado)

American inquisition part 2: What McCarthyism really destroyed

American inquisition part 1: The origins of the Cold War and McCarthyism

170 years of U.S. aggression against Nicaragua

Donald Trump’s Near Death Has Reenergized His Movement

Democrats Now Openly Admit They Pushed Biden to Block Bernie

GOP suppresses internal dissent, passes ‘whatever Trump says’ as platform

Starmer’s Labour: the UK establishment’s supernova

Canada runs on subsidies. Why shouldn’t news media get them?

Jane McAlevey Knew We Could Win

Britain’s Securonomics – Michael Roberts Blog

Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say

Thanks to a Massive Mobilization of the Left in France, the Far Right Cannot Control the Government

Canada’s whitewashing of Africa’s most ruthless regime

Righteous student activism and evolving anti-Palestinian reprisal in Canada

The Xinjiang I saw was a hub of diversity, not oppression

War on Gaza: Death toll from Israeli assault could exceed 186,000, Lancet warns

Fixing the climate – it just ain’t profitable – Michael Roberts Blog

Is the Reign of the Dollar Coming to an End?: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2024)

In Saskatchewan, Poilievre allies with tycoons who treat province like ‘fiefdom’

The Invisibles: About mass persecution of dissidents in Ukraine

A soft landing or curate’s egg? – Michael Roberts Blog

France’s Left Needs Unity More Than Ever

Why Housing First failed in Canada

Israel's systematic sexual abuse and torture of Palestinians detailed in new reports

Inside the ‘shocking’ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto

Food Companies Intentionally Make Their Products Addictive, and It’s Leading to Chronic Diseases

Colombian Paramilitaries Encounter Adverse US Court Decision and People’s Resistance

Dockworkers in Greece refused to load arms shipment destined for Israel, forced cargo ship to change route

What is the realistic strategy for “de-dollarisation”?

New President in Mexico to Accelerate the Energy Transition

Silicon Valley’s unlikely ally to defend generative AI

Capital’s B-Team Are Ready to Take Charge

Hailed Abroad, Giorgia Meloni Undermines Democracy at Home

France’s Establishment Is Preparing for a Le Pen Government

McKinsey Pulls the Strings Behind Justin Trudeau’s Curtain

How will Canada deal with new Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum?

U.S. army aided Israel in bloody military op launched from Gaza ‘Aid Pier’

Heat index warnings can save lives on dangerously hot days−if people understand what they mean

Supreme Court Sides Against Casino Managers Seeking Unionization

Canadian blood plasma products can be sold abroad for profit by pharma giant

Opposition to stampeding Bill C-70 through Parliament grows

Pierre Poilievre: Friend of the working class?

Europe Is Warning Us

Epoch Times on the ropes after money-laundering charges laid

Their Rules-Based International Order Is the Rule of the Mafia: The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2024)

Democrats Are Welcoming a Genocidal War Criminal to DC

The Fight Against Ticketmaster

Teamsters and Amazon Labor Union Announce Affiliation, Member Vote Still Ahead

U.S. imperialism arranges Black-majority occupation force for Haiti intervention

In the Shatila Refugee Camp, Palestinians Have Little Hope

Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism wants to put subsidy genie back in bottle

Watch It Burn

Seoul authorities find Shein products contain high levels of toxic chemicals

9 Takeaways From Our 3M Forever Chemicals Investigation

NLC strike update in Nigeria: National grid shut down

A Closer Look at America’s Water Crisis

Canada’s class war pantomime

Why the housing crisis is not an immigration problem

Mexico: from AMLO to Sheinbaum – Michael Roberts Blog

Claudia Sheinbaum’s Victory Is a Triumph for Mexico

Jeremy Corbyn on Why He’s Running as an Independent

Transitional Presidential Council Selects Prime Minister

Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry

Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed

Protests, general strike in West Bank after Rafah camp massacre

Inside CBC, concerns emerge about broadcaster’s response to Palestine essay

Loblaw’s Great Canadian Grocery Gouge

The Reactionary International

Tariffs, technology and industrial policy – Michael Roberts Blog

CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand

A lawyer’s perspective on the pro-Palestine encampments

India’s Neoliberal Crisis Is Fueling Hindu Authoritarianism

Ireland’s Tax Haven Economy Isn’t Delivering for Its People

Worker Co-Ops Have a Role to Play in Socialist Strategy

The inexorable rise of the Belgian Workers’ Party

The IMF and Class Struggle in Latin America: Unveiling the Role of the IMF

Israel Rejected a Cease-Fire. The Media Isn’t Telling Us.

The Canadian State Is Euthanizing Its Poor and Disabled

The World Bank and the IMF: the creditors’ bailiffs

Mitt Romney says Congress supports banning TikTok for Israel

The End of Lean Production... and What’s Ahead

U.S. dooms itself to defeat in peaceful competition with China

Why Canada needs to respect Haitian sovereignty

The Crisis in Haiti: Perspectives from the Leadership of Fanmi Lavalas

How Africa’s National Liberation Struggles Brought Democracy to Europe: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2024)

India as a tool to contain China - Geopolitics explained

Are the BRICS offering alternatives to the World Bank and IMF?

The World Bank saw the debt crisis looming

The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All

So called “Peak China” is simply a Western campaign for China to commit economic suicide

Auto Workers win big at Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Elon Against Lula

Boris Kagarlitsky: The Hobbesian World of “Multipolarity”

The people’s movement that helped force a Liberal shift on Gaza policy

Why we should swing post-carbon tax talk left

How to make Canada’s $10-a-day child care program work

Could co-op news help save Canada’s media?

All the perfumes of Arabia

From the Magnificent Seven to the Desperate Hundred – Michael Roberts Blog

Dismantling the Haitian state (feat. Canada)

Charities Are Paying Student Journalists For ‘Pro-Israel Content’

Haiti’s Disorder Is Due to Elite Malfeasance and US Meddling

The UAW Is Gearing Up for Two Union Elections in the South

Thousands Have Lived without Love, but Not One without Water: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2024)

‘The closest we’ve been since partition’: Irish reunification on the horizon

Eleven Theses on Music

Theoretical lies of the World Bank

Chile : “The working classes have dropped out”

Julian Assange’s Basic Press Freedoms Are Still in Danger

Neoliberalism is Canada’s real productivity problem

Bitcoin 24 – Michael Roberts Blog

Why the Left Should Reject Heidegger’s Thought

Palestinians Will Remain on Palestinian Land: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2024)

Profits: margins and rates – Michael Roberts Blog

Capitalist trap for scientific advances

Public pharma infrastructure could give the world access to a treasure trove of medicines

Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new US regime change scheme

Why are US lawmakers dead set on banning TikTok?

Israel is starving Palestinians to death while the world watches

The Iraq War Remade the World in Its Grisly Image

The Struggle for Women’s Emancipation Will Always Be Worth It: The Twelfth Newsletter (2024)

The digital revolution has failed

The World Bank's support of the dictatorship in Turkey (1980-1983)

Statement on the result of referendum to amend the Constitution

Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age

Industrial Agriculture: Lessons from North Korea

The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power

The Online News Act has been like MAiD for emerging media in Canada

BAP Backgrounder: Haiti behind the headlines

Haitian Prime Minister Henry Agrees to Resign as CARICOM Announces Formation of Presidential Council

Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age

The Specter of ‘Knowledge as Commons’

China’s next decade – Michael Roberts Blog

New Study: Where Are All the Left Populists?

Ding Dong, Former Canadian PM Brian Mulroney Is Dead

UNRWA staffers tortured by Israeli troops to falsely admit ‘Hamas links’

World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships

There Will Be Reading and Singing and Dancing Even in the Darkest Times: The Tenth Newsletter (2024)

An extreme act of protest

The UAW Has Set Its Sights on the Anti-Union South

A Rift Has Opened in Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism

Third Way Love for Public-Private Partnerships Turns Deadly

The Problem With Finance Is the Problem of Capitalism

It is dark before the dawn, but Israeli settler colonialism is at an end

US's extradition of Assange is politically motivated and illegal, High Court hears

The West Is Sabotaging a Global Pandemic Treaty

Trump’s dangerously pathological behavior exposed by Judge Engoron’s ruling

Buried trial verdict confirms false-flag Maidan massacre in Ukraine

Corporate ownership of media has failed Canadians

North Korea’s Transformation on Peaceful Reunification Marks Paradigm Shift in Asia

The Growing Popularity Of Right-To-Work Laws Is Troubling

How Canada benefits from instability in Ecuador

Questions & answers on China as a major creditor power by Éric Toussaint [Part 1]

Cops crashed my talk on Palestine (and proved my point about colonialism)

Alberta's attack on trans rights is a harbinger of things to come

Colombia’s Right Is Trying to “Soft Coup” Gustavo Petro

The Pentagon Has Decided to Battle Chinese Film Censorship

“Democracies” deny the popular will while suppressing protest and dissent

A Word like Peace Is Faster Than the Bullet of War: The Seventh Newsletter (2024)

The Economics Teacher of the New Generation: Cryptocurrency Ideology

Indonesia: still in the shadow of Suharto – Michael Roberts Blog

Labour Has Given Up on the Climate Crisis

There is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go

St Valentine’s Hometown Has Fallen Out of Love With the Left

Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won't be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries

Manulife-Loblaw reversal shows urgent need for universal pharmacare

Dawn Is Breaking Out All Over, and the World Is Waking Up: The Sixth Newsletter (2024)

The South, Where Automakers Go for a Discount

What the GDP hides

Why the Marshall Plan?

Pakistan’s misery continues – Michael Roberts Blog

Ukraine moves to supersede national labor federation

Why Private Investment Isn’t Driving a Rapid Green Transition

China is 'world's sole manufacturing superpower', with 35% of global output

EP Thompson: Historian for the working class

France's 2 key farmers unions suspend protests after the government offers new measures

Greek students protest over plans for private universities

Defunding UNRWA Is Collective Punishment

ICJ ruling tests ‘Canada’s remarkable double standards’ on Palestine

Has China really reached the end of its economic boom?

Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandem

Canada's op-ed pages offer one-sided support for Israel, study shows

Pollsters and pundits flop: Trump treads tough road back to White House

Gaza and Canada’s refugee double standard

A hundred years since we lost Comrade Lenin

Port Talbot’s Betrayal Shows Britain’s Lack of Direction

Scrapping Port Talbot is Social Vandalism

The Union Wage Premium Remains Strong Across Canada

The Global South Takes Israel to Court: The Third Newsletter (2024)

Javier Milei Wants to Ignite a Far-Right Cultural Revolution

Chip Wars: Breaking the siege

Davos and the melting world economy – Michael Roberts Blog

In Italy’s Main Shipyard, Anti-Islam Policy Divides Workers

Public Sector Pensions In New Brunswick Are At Risk

The WB assists those in power in a witch-hunting context

British Labour Party will only recognize Palestinian state after Israel gives permission

Hezbollah still a useful bogeyman for Israel and the US

Events in Iraq and Niger put spotlight on Canadian troops abroad

The National Post should be the last to lecture anyone about media bias

Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods' Institutions

Forecast 2024: stagnation, elections and AI – Michael Roberts Blog

Israel’s drone age

A revolution in trouble: Cuba’s government analyzes and responds to economic woes

Jacques Delors’s “Social Europe” Was the Prisoner of Pro-Austerity Dogmas

CBC says killing of Palestinians doesn’t merit terms ‘murderous,’ ‘brutal’

15 movement victories in 2023 you may not have heard about

Napoleon’s war economy – Michael Roberts Blog

Sweden Is Giving Elon Musk A Taste Of Union Strength

Postmedia Called Out For Publishing Israeli Propaganda As ‘News’

In ‘covert op,’ Israeli consulate backed poll inflating support for Gaza war

Canada votes against democracy, human rights at UN — promotes mercenaries, sanctions

Carbon capture’s publicly funded failure

Pitfalls of export-led growth

Gaza: Guterres invokes 'most powerful tool' Article 99, in bid for humanitarian ceasefire

After years of public pressure, Panama finally closes Canadian copper mine

Google’s promised $100 million a year brings hope for Canadian news

Canada's open secret: International students are here to be exploited

Naomi Klein to Heather Reisman: Charges must be dropped against Indigo 11

Canadian Health Workers Rally For Palestine

Big Tech Is Exploiting the Mental Health Crisis to Monetize Your Data

Anti-gay crackdown looms after Russian Supreme Court bans ‘LGBT movement’

Someone knew: Stock traders made millions short-selling before Oct. 7th Hamas attacks

ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America

Trilateral missile defense system a step toward Asian NATO

Historic march demands an end to Canada’s complicity in Israel’s crimes in Palestine

Finally

The Christian Labour Association of Canada Isn’t A ‘Real’ Union

Ottawa extends, doubles news media bailout

Musk’s Lawsuit Is About Destroying Free Speech - FAIR

Germany’s Left Party splits, new party to launch in January

CTV forbids use of ‘Palestine,’ suppresses critical stories about Israel

Canada’s Top 0.01% Saw Income Growth Of 30% In 2021

Beyond an emergency

CFA Franc System in Francophone Africa: A tool of French financial imperialism

Should the Transition to Socialism Be Fast or Slow?

Self-described ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Javier Milei is Argentina’s next president

AI: open or closed? – Michael Roberts Blog

Trudeau interview reveals uncomfortable truth

Platform Company Dominance and Labor Struggles in the Digital Economy: The Case of South Korea

The Largest Pro-Palestinian Protest in U.S. History Was "A Turning Point." Now It's Spreading.

After a Long Defeat, Labor Is Rising from the Ashes

Monthly Review | Actual U.S. Military Spending Reached $1.537 Trillion in 2022—More than Twice Acknowledged Level: New Estimates Based on U.S. National Accounts

From Gaza and Cuba, They Ask – Are You Human Like Us?: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2023)

How is the Canadian labour movement responding to Israel’s attacks on Gaza?

Belgian port workers refuse to load weapons bound for Israel

Sam Bankman-Fried Was Guilty, and Not Even Michael Lewis Could Save Him

The BBC Is Failing to Report the Ugly Truth About Israel’s War On Gaza

Why we’re seeing shifting patterns in global manufacturing

Israel Wants Either an Apartheid State or an Ethnic Cleansing Process, Both Crimes Under International Law

Debt distress – Michael Roberts Blog

US economy expanding? – Michael Roberts Blog

I Asked Columnists How Many Dead Kids Is Enough For A Ceasefire

This Airbnb alternative won't destroy Canada's housing market

Unequal Value Transfer from Mexico to the United States

Names released of 7,028 Palestinians killed after Biden questions death toll

Here’s What UAW Workers Won in a “Historic” TA After Striking at Ford

How the International Monetary Fund Continues to Shrink the Poorer Nations: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2023)

Massive labor-community coalition in Canada demands: Ceasefire now

Europe’s Blind Eye to Israel’s War Crimes Shows the “Rules-Based Order” Is a Cruel Farce

In Hours of Israel/Gaza Crisis Coverage, a Word You'll Seldom Hear: 'Ceasefire'

Ontario’s NDP expels anti-apartheid lawmaker Sarah Jama, sparking mass resignations

US announces temporary suspension of sanctions against Venezuelan oil and gas

Health system in Gaza collapsing as fuel and medicine run out

The bankrupt morality of Canada’s political class

Banning Palestine support rallies. Could it happen in Canada?

Canada: Hostility Towards Progressive Ukrainians Ends Myth of Concern for Ukrainians’ Political Rights

Colonial dreams, racist nightmares, liberated futures

NDP Officials No Longer Welcome At The Maple

Suncor CEO to MPs: We’re not taking responsibility for climate crisis

Israel: the shattering of a dream – Michael Roberts Blog

Why we must resist the right-wing attack on free speech on Palestine

Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another

Over 1 million displaced in Gaza, unprecedented destruction: UNRWA

The lies and secrets of French imperialism

Sam Bankman-Fried and the moral abyss of the market

Canada’s weak stance on Gaza crisis gives green light to Israel’s war crimes

Wab Kinew’s NDP should embrace labour issues as critical to the future of Manitoba

What can the new Manitoba NDP government do?

The World in Economic Depression: A Marxist Analysis of Crisis

How the International Monetary Fund Is Squeezing Pakistan

Palestinian Analyst: “There Is No Safe Place in Gaza”

Weekly Briefing: U.S. mainstream media are all on board for Israel’s war – Mondoweiss

U.S. role in creating Mideast disaster becomes clearer by the day

For a Century, the Frankfurt School Has Studied How Domination Works in Modern Societies

Emmanuel Macron’s Government Is Using Evictions as a Tool of Control

Polycrisis again

The savagery of the war against the Palestinian people

How ‘parental rights’ language smuggles anti-LGBTQ hate into mainstream politics

The Violence in Palestine and Israel Is the Tragic Fruit of Brutal Oppression

World reaction to surprise attack by Palestinian Hamas on Israel

International uproar following mass raids and arrest of Indian journalists

Potential disaster awaits Haiti as U.S. prepares for armed intervention

The IMF and World Bank Talk Good Governance, But Walk With State-Capturers

Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: a Cold War Debate Re-ignites in Geneva

Wab Kinew becomes first First Nations premier in Canadian history

California Fast Food Workers Have Won A $20 Minimum Wage

Predatory owners suck the marrow from bones of Canada’s news media

Hiding in the shadows – Michael Roberts Blog

The perilous path from Western domination to de-dollarisation

By Honoring a Nazi, Canada’s Parliament Has Unearthed a Troubling History

How Canada Helped Whitewash The Nazi SS Galicia Division

Automakers Are Investing in Stock Buybacks Instead of Workers and Electric Vehicles

Congress Gave Tech Companies Immunity From Libel Laws. That Needs to Change.

Québec public sector workers are ready for a general strike

The Populist Tactic

Canada Is Accusing India of a State-Sanctioned Assassination

Is It Just Us, or Is Girl-Boss Feminism Waning?

Freefall and Rebound: Taking Stock of the Venezuelan Economy

Venezuela: Gov't to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program

A soft landing? – Michael Roberts Blog

Poland's education minister says he's 'taken steps' to extradite Yaroslav Hunka | CBC News

World War II revisionism on full display in Nazi’s visit to Parliament

What if There Had Been No Coup in Chile in 1973?: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2023)

The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973

Germany’s Political Class Is Still Giving Unconditional Support to Israeli Apartheid

Twist in Online News Act regulations could see news media owe millions to Google, Facebook

Proud Boys leader faces up to 33 years in prison for role in Trump coup

Argentina’s right-wing candidates praise brutal dictatorship, stage stunt honoring ‘victims of left violence’

As West African states take greater role in mining sector, how will Canada respond?

Postmedia uses junk science to make its case for digital millions

Modern slavery: Pakistan’s latest climate change curse

Toronto grocery workers strike for living wage, turning down union-approved contract

SAG-AFTRA strike continues, workers win one on Artificial Intelligence

First Nations say they’re not wildfire evacuees, but climate refugees

Navigating by the stars under cloudy skies – and holed below the water line

BRICS expansion is positive–but not a coherent challenge to U.S. power

The Hollywood Studios Still Aren’t Serious About Ending the Writers’ Strike

We Need Free Theater for All

Alexis Tsipras Leaves the Greek Left at a Historic Low

The People of Niger Want to Shatter Resignation: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2023)

Fissures in the global order mean both risks and opportunities

Fired-Up Auto Workers Are Ready to Battle the Big 3

ADDENDUM: 1% of all adults in the world own 44.5% of all personal wealth, while more than 52% have only 1.2% – Michael Roberts Blog

Argentina’s Economic Crisis Has Become a Political Crisis

The Rot of the Crypto Economy Goes Deeper Than Sam Bankman-Fried

Russia’s war economy – Michael Roberts Blog

Cuba’s Worsening Food Crisis Means US Blockade Must End Now, Not Later

What’s happening in Niger is far from a typical coup

Schism and Faschism: Berlin Bulletin no: 214, August 16, 2023

Judge to Trump: You will be tried in court, not on the internet

Beyond Niger: How ECOWAS Became a Tool for Western Imperialism in Africa

Niger coup will have global ramifications for the US, France, and Canada

A Meta alternative could serve the public instead of private interests

Canada’s newspaper chains badly overplayed their hand in attempted tech shakedown

There Is No One to Cheer for in the Clash Between Tech Titans and Canada’s News Media

Canadian Workers Are Being Crushed Between Low Wages and Soaring Rents

The U.S. plot to finalize the theft of Venezuela’s oil

Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings were needless, said World War II’s top U.S. military leaders

From Lebanon to Sri Lanka through Latin America and Egypt: Public debt today and in the history of capitalism

China: consumption or investment? – Michael Roberts Blog

The cost of living and profits – Michael Roberts Blog

Planet Earth Is 'Quite Sick': 7 of 8 Boundaries for Safe and Just World Already Breached, Study Says

The New French Revolt

Canada and the new Cold War

Toronto’s Metro Grocery Workers Have Voted Unanimously to Strike

Is a Fractured Right a Cause for Celebration or Concern?

From greedflation to stagflation and then slumpflation – Michael Roberts Blog

The World Needs a New Socialist Development Theory

The Fight for Justice in Brazil is International

Climate collapse threatens slide to fascism and war

Beyond the Greece Boat Disaster: Tracing the Roots of the Migration Crisis

She won. Now what can Olivia Chow do for Toronto?

Greece Just Elected the Most Right-Wing Parliament Since the Return to Democracy

Reconstructing Ukraine: Private capital floods in

Deeper than ever, the crisis leaves capitalism out of breath

Daniel Ellsberg is lauded in death by the same media that lets Assange rot in jail

Delaware Wants to Give Corporations the Right to Vote Like People Do

In Delaware, Corporations Are Dangerously Close to Acquiring the Right to Vote

The Electoral Collapse of SYRIZA

Pat Robertson’s Africa

The Québec government’s push to ban lease transfers is an act of class warfare

Why the world’s most bombed country may still suffer from these wounds after a hundred years

Haiti: Stop the Destruction of a Nation

Legendary whistleblower and anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg passes at 92

Developing debt disaster – Michael Roberts Blog

Bell’s latest layoffs and closures show Canada’s news media need a major revamp

The Biggest Scandal in Trump’s Indictment: US War Plans for Iran

The Disinformation Wars: An Epistemological, Political, and Socio-Historical Interrogation

Canadian looting of Zambian resources led to debt crisis

Exposed: Disturbing details of the Pentagon “Perception Management Office”

‘Out of control’ fires burn across Canada as poor air quality expected to persist

Organized tenants are racking up wins against landlords and politicians

Germany is Criminalising Palestinian Solidarity

Is “de-globalisation” occurring?

Market fundamentalism is an obstacle to social progress

In historic step backward, the Supreme Court limits the right to strike

ChatGPT, value and knowledge – Michael Roberts Blog

The U.S. invasion and occupation of Syria that ‘never happened’

Trust us? Whether it’s government or media, you have simply got to be kidding

While thousands of Venezuelans died, Chrystia Freeland called for sanctions with ‘more bite’

Acemoglu, AI and automation – Michael Roberts Blog

Alberta elects 'unhinged' right-wing oil lobbyist as premier

“Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if it Takes Place,” says Noam Chomsky

AMLO’s mining reforms could lead to more conflict with Canada

Landlords Are One of the Leading Causes of Canada’s Rent Crisis

The Worst Crime of the 21st Century ❧ Current Affairs

Haiti faces a choice: Social revolution or foreign occupation

Ten reasons we can’t blame the carbon tax for inflation

Lula is Challenging Western Dominance

Chile Has Entered Its Thermidorian Period

Why Ukraine’s interest in Chinese-brokered peace worries the White House

You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2023)

ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics

Noam Chomsky on Canadian war criminals and a world after capitalism ⋆ The Breach

Inflation: causes and solutions – Michael Roberts Blog

The History of May Day

No, the Rich Don’t Deserve Their Wealth

Indigenous communities fight Canada's 'holy shit' fix for tar sands wastewater

AI-GPT: a game changer? – Michael Roberts Blog

Rashida Tlaib and the Squad Are Demanding Julian Assange’s Freedom

Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives

The urgent need to repudiate debt

Women’s work is not valued properly

Banking crisis: is it all over? – Michael Roberts Blog

What Happened in Finland

Hysteria About Chinese Political Interference Has Arrived in Canada

Italy’s Longest-Ever Factory Occupation Shows How Workers Can Transform Production

Unchecked by consequences, a new authoritarianism is unfolding in India

The tragedy of the war in Ukraine: a reply to Kagarlitsky

20 Years Ago, Canadian Media Lined Up To Call For War In Iraq

The Iraq War Was One of History’s Greatest Atrocities

Twenty Years After Invading Iraq, American Liberalism Is Discredited Yet Still Dominant

The Invasion of Iraq Wasn’t a “Mistake.” It Was a Crime.

What Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Reveals About Regulation — ProPublica

The big con – Michael Roberts Blog

China calls for Ukraine ceasefire and issues 12-point peace plan

Why Joan Robinson Blamed Unions for Inflation While Milton Friedman Did Not

Corrupt Mexican drug czar “had a very close relationship for many years with U.S. intelligence,” says Mexican security analyst

Key lessons from the failure of the U.S. and success of China’s economic stimulus programs

How social networks became a ‘subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA

The Market Will Never Solve Climate Breakdown

Automation Isn’t the Cause of Unemployment — Capitalism Just Can’t Generate Enough Jobs

France’s Once-Mighty Socialist Party Must Change or Die

France’s Left-Wing Coalition Risks Splitting Apart

The United States Wants to Make Taiwan the Ukraine of the East: The Sixth Newsletter (2023)

How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline | Seymour Hersh

Justin Trudeau Loves Outsourcing Government Work to Neoliberal Cutthroats

Trudeau government’s support for Peruvian coup regime all about Canadian mining companies

French workers walk out as Macron government raises retirement age and cuts pensions

Peru coup government opens the door for entry of U.S. troops

The ‘rent good’ and imperialism

China: zig zagging – Michael Roberts Blog

Not all industrial policy is created equal.

The concerning rise of corporate medicine | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Davos 23: going pear-shaped – Michael Roberts Blog

Taking on union corruption from the Left

South Korea prosecutes its citizens for screening North Korean drama

Outrage mounts after Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is raided by intelligence and police

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

Four ways the Ford government is privatizing health care

The Ukraine conflict as a world war

The US Military Compares Itself to the Rebel Alliance. In Reality, It’s the Evil Empire.

At Davos, Capitalists Are Trying to Solve the Problems They Themselves Create

FBI Cointelpro is Back and Worse Than Ever

Forecast 2023: the impending slump – Michael Roberts Blog

The Hope of a Pan-African-Owned and Controlled Electric Car Project Is Buried for Generations to Come: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2022)

Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Public Ownership Is About Democracy’

Anti-Capitalism Is The Only Way To Save Creativity From AI

Mining Capital and the Indonesian State

What took them so long? New York Times, Guardian finally call for Assange’s freedom

Iran: Secular revolt against clerical tyranny

Ontario’s strong mayor reforms: a new shell for urban neoliberalism

Ottawa sides with Peruvian right-wing amid social uprising

Twitter Aided Pentagon in Covert Propaganda Campaign

Crypto Convulsions, Digital Delusions, and the Inexorable Logic of Finance Capitalism

A reactionary coup is consummated

CERB/CEWS: No Oversight For The Rich, Little Forgiveness For The Poor

How to fund journalism in Canada if Google, Facebook won’t

Canada’s Military Trained Ukrainian Fascists. Now It’s Claiming “Russian Disinformation.”

New Indonesian law: No sex outside marriage, no abortion, no Marxism

OPEN LETTER: Bill-23 and the attack on workers in New Brunswick - NB Media Co-op

Ontario court strikes down law limiting wages for public sector workers | CBC News

Court declares Bill 124 violates Charter rights

Right wing’s anti-LGBTQ hate creates atmosphere for Colorado Springs shooting

When Networks Die

The World Cup Should Make Us Rethink Our Understanding of Human Rights

The outflow of finance from the periphery

The wage price spiral refuted – Michael Roberts Blog

We have our rights back – and we are going back to the bargaining table - OSBCU

Authoritarianism Is Now Canada’s Default Response To Organized Labour

The security state’s double standards

Iranian Protesters Deserve the Unwavering Support of the International Left

The Great Italian Post-Fascist Tolkien Takeover

Massive anti-Russian ‘Bot army’ exposed by Australian researchers

Africa does not want to be a breeding ground for the New Cold War: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2022)

What Worries the US Most About Lula

Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba–U.S. and Israel are rogue states at UN

A statement from the central bargaining committee for CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) - OSBCU

Emergency Rally: Hands off workers’ rights | The Ontario Federation of Labour

What the Governments's Demands Mean for You - OSBCU

China: Xi’s third term – part 3: chips, dual circulation and imperialism – Michael Roberts Blog

China: Xi’s third term – part two: property, debt and common prosperity – Michael Roberts Blog

China: Xi’s third term – part one: growth, investment and consumption – Michael Roberts Blog

As Ukraine war escalates, the climate movement goes AWOL

Lula wins Brazil election in political resurrection for leftist | Reuters

Does the US chip ban on China amount to a declaration of war in the computer age?

Could Google, Meta quit Canada over Bill C-18?

No Accountability: How a Rare Effort to Compensate Iraqi Airstrike Victims Failed

To Protect Workers From Inflation, Unions Want to Bring Back the COLA Clause

The inflation conundrum – Michael Roberts Blog

We Need a New Trade Union of the Poor Rooted in the Global South: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2022)

U.S. waging ‘unilateral’ economic and tech war to halt China’s rise, DC insiders say openly | MR Online

Leslie Jordan: Sean Hayes and Demi Lovato lead tributes to the beloved Will and Grace star

The New Finance Capital has Blurred the Line Between Industrial and Financial Corporations

Haiti deserves respect, not another invasion

Gag rule on Palestinians continues, TikTok joins ban policy

From Churchill to NATO: How the West built and empowered Italian fascism

Inside the global garment industry

The Capitalist Market Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis — but Green Socialist Planning Can

Shock therapy on the world economy – Michael Roberts Blog

Canada’s Left-Wing Hope Is Being Sabotaged by Her Own Party

The “Wage-Price Spiral” Is Being Used as an Excuse to Attack Workers in Canada

In Italy’s Deserted Democracy, Far-Right Giorgia Meloni Has Emerged Victorious

Cuba: Approval of Family Code in referendum is an act of justice - Prensa Latina

Russia and NATO Tried to Wage War on the Cheap in Ukraine, But Could Now be Heading for Total War

Poilievre Doesn’t Understand The Central Bank’s Real Problems

After UFCW-Uber revelation, gig workers ramp up fight for decent work ⋆ The Breach

Italy: lurching to the right – Michael Roberts Blog

Fascist-Sympathizing Newspaper Barons Were the Blueprint for Today’s Right-Wing Media

Colombian President Gustavo Petro: End the War on Drugs

Canadians Deserve to Vote on Breaking With the Monarchy

Canadian Law Professors Are Speaking Out in Support of Palestinian Human Rights Defenders

Secret Documents Have Exposed the CIA’s Julian Assange Obsession

The global South has lost $152 trillion through unequal exchange since 1960

Can the Taiwan question ever be peacefully resolved?

Decision on dental care could uproot NDP-Liberal pact

Europe, more than Putin, must shoulder the blame for the energy crisis

British Police Are Now Arresting People Just for Criticizing the Monarchy

Canada’s Elites Are Toasting the Monarchy. Most Canadians Couldn’t Care Less.

The Commodities Markets are Absurd, Unstable, and Dangerous

Royalty and the ruling class

Pierre Poilievre's Fake Populist Playbook

The closing scissors and profits – Michael Roberts Blog

Why Chileans Rejected the Proposed New Constitution

If We Want Humanity to Survive, We Must Cooperate With China

We Urgently Need Publicly-Led Investment And Planning

Life expectancy and human development in the 21st century – Michael Roberts Blog

In Chile, Pinochet’s Admirers Are Celebrating the No Vote on the New Constitution

Canada’s Elites Stand Ready to Defend the Monarchy

Housing in Canada: Great for Capitalists, Wretched for People

Camila Vergara, Chile’s Rejection — Sidecar

Special Report: How U.S. ethanol plants are allowed to pollute more than oil refineries | Reuters

Labor Union Censored Report Criticizing Microsoft’s Military Contracts

The NDP must withdraw from the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group

Barbara Ehrenreich Made Socialist Ideas Sound Like Common Sense

Chile rejects a new and revolutionary Constitution: Shadows of the dictatorial past are imposed

Energy, cost of living and recession – Michael Roberts Blog

Controlling inflation at the expense of working class

Chile’s New Constitution Could Guarantee Neoliberalism Dies Where It Was Born

Ontario’s Premier, Doug Ford, Wants to Privatize Canadian Health Care

Capitalism Created the Climate Catastrophe; Socialism Can Avert Disaster. The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)

Julian Assange files his perfected Grounds of Appeal

Roger Waters added to Ukrainian hit list

Factchecking the Factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and Media Access - FAIR

Biden to name Ukraine war general

Canada is being outdone on fair taxes

To end ‘hell on earth’ the US must free Afghanistan's $7bn reserves

Meta Platforms Exempted Russian War Crimes From Graphic Content Takedowns

The coming fight for ten-dollar-a-day childcare

Down the Jackson Hole – Michael Roberts Blog

The Origin of Student Debt: The Danger of Educated Proles

Ukraine could abandon key labour principle

Indian Workers Defend Their Steel with Their Lives: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2022)

The Problem With Our Conversation On Harassment Of Journalists

Union worked with Uber to ensure Ontario government would not classify gig workers as employees, documents show - The Globe and Mail

What The Media Gets Wrong About Taiwan’s Place In China

India’s Prabhat Patnaik: Fascism Is Rooted in the Crisis of Neoliberalism (Interview)

Michael Collins: The Irish revolutionary turned counter-revolutionary

Sanctions and the decline of the dollar

Statements of Solidarity with Walden Bello

Will global inflation subside? – Michael Roberts Blog

Jamaican migrant workers in Ontario pen open letter likening conditions to 'systematic slavery'

New Reality?

L’économie planifiée de l’utopie à la science

Russia under Putin – Michael Roberts Blog

Ukraine: the invasion of capital – Michael Roberts Blog

Cubans to vote on law recognizing families, regardless of sex or gender identity

The Secret Anti-Socialist History of Supermarkets

When People Want Housing in India, They Build It: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2022)

Competition Won’t Fix Canada’s Telecom Woes

The Government Should Cancel the F-35 Program and Replace It With Nothing

How Liberals Gave Up on Progress

How Striking Auto Workers Showed Italy the Way Out of Decline

Sanctions fuel the fire at Cuba’s Matanzas oil storage

Can We Please Have an Adult Conversation about China?: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2022)

Starbucks unionizing: workers brewing change

National Strike Called on Cost of Living Crisis in South Africa

Unifor membership elects Lana Payne as new leader

Gustavo Petro: Colombia Will Be More Fair and More Peaceful

What Do We Owe Afghanistan?

Cultural groups aren’t the only ones lobbying for Internet controls

U.S.-China chip war continues

How Alex Jones Helped Enrich the Global Elites He Railed Against

Amazon’s One-Stop Shop for Identity Thieves

Canada is trying to stop Mexico from becoming energy sovereign

The IRA and the four horsemen of the climate apocalypse – Michael Roberts Blog

Canada’s Carbon Tax Is Hurting Working People

Connexion sans mot de passe avec une clé matérielle - Citizens' Press

Antagonism and Contradictions in Sri Lanka

The Globe And Mail Just Published Neo-Nazi Propaganda

Venezuelan Gold Reserves: Caracas Protests ‘Astonishing’ Ruling in Favor of US-backed Guaidó

Decolonizing cannabis

Canada's blood plasma collection to be sold off to foreign pharma giant

Europe’s Central Bank Has a New Tool to Protect Bond Markets. When Will It Protect Workers?

UNICEF India Assam Floods Humanitarian Situation Report, 8 July 2022 - India | ReliefWeb

What Is a Private Equity Firm? — ProPublica

Starmer’s Self-Destructive War on Trade Unions | Tribute Mag

Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong - Yanis Varoufakis

To Properly Care for Mental Health Problems, We Must First Accept Those Problems Are Real

Are We at the Dawn of “Insulin Socialism”?

Jamie Irving’s Postmedia Appointment Is Bad News For Canada

China issues statement on Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

Neo-colonial currency enables French exploitation

Is Canada about to cave on US ballistic missile boondoggle?

Bank of America Memo: “We Hope” Worker Power Worsens

Ten years on from the ‘Maple Spring,’ New Brunswick government cancels student benefit program

Calling a recession and blaming it on interest rates – Michael Roberts Blog

BT Workers Are Fighting the Rigged Economy

Saudi dictators behind new plane for PM Trudeau

The dangerous rise of Pierre Poilievre

150 Years Ago, Friedrich Engels Correctly Assessed What’s Wrong With Housing Under Capitalism

Mick Lynch: ‘It’s No Good Being Pissed Off – We Need Organisation’

A contingency plan for the death of American democracy

Europe: caught in a trap – Michael Roberts Blog

The Left, Inflation and Monetary Policy

Canada’s Development Finance Institution and Land Grabbing in Africa

Capital flight from emerging markets

Barbados Resists Climate Colonialism in an Effort to Survive the Costs of Global Warming — ProPublica

Passwordless logins using hardware keys - Citizens' Press

Indigenous rights take center stage in Chile’s new constitution

Calling Putin 'Hitler' to Smear Diplomacy as 'Appeasement'

CRA penalized just 185 companies for misusing COVID money, while targeting 1M Canadians

Is China headed for a crash? – Michael Roberts Blog

The Forde Report’s Villains Now Control the Labour Party

The Labour Party’s Right Wing Only Cares About Destroying Socialism

The Success of Pandemic Income Support Does Not Mean That Universal Basic Income Works

Glushkov and His Ideas: Cybernetics of the Future by Vasiliy Pikhorovich

How the Left Builds Power All Wrong

Expropriate Canada’s New Pandemic-Era Billionaires

Scandinavia and imperialism

On Marxism and decolonisation

Energy: the recession trigger? – Michael Roberts Blog

Why we need to (re)nationalize Air Canada

The Economist’s War on Chile

The Kurds Aren’t a “Security Threat” — They’re the Ones Being Attacked

Ukraine Needs Debt Forgiveness Now

Bolivia’s Postcoup President Jeanine Áñez Has Been Brought to Justice

Want a green future? Too often, big tech is in the way

The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war

Automation on the Docks Means Fewer Jobs — and Often No Improvement in Productivity

The First Principle of Union Organizing: Spontaneity Isn’t Enough

The Uber Leak Exposes the Global War on Workers

There are Hungry People. There are Hungry People: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)

The Mass Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Kurds is Collateral Damage From the War in Ukraine

Striking HBC Logistics Workers Have Won A New Contract

The Supreme Court’s Shock-and-Awe Judicial Coup

Turkey’s Authoritarian President Is Using the War in Ukraine to Tighten His Control

Emmanuel Macron and the Far Right Are Sealing an Alliance

Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition – Spectre Journal

The Second International’s Conflicted Legacy

Corbyn on the Establishment’s campaign against him

Western officials admit Ukraine is crawling with CIA personnel

The Supreme Court, rights, and judicial abdication

The global solution: private or public? – Michael Roberts Blog

How Idaho’s Boise State University Is Bowing to a Conservative Ideological Crusade — ProPublica

Inflation, the Phillips Curve, and wages - Citizens' Press

We Need to Build the Architecture of Our Future: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)

In Support of Trans Athletes - Citizens' Press

France’s Left Unity Is Proving Short-Lived

Canada may be headed down a slippery slope of Internet regulation

One more nail in the coffin of Trudeau’s Latin American strategy

A tightening world – Michael Roberts Blog

The Fed’s austerity program to reduce wages

A tale of two summits

Colombia's first ever left-wing president: Gustavo Petro wins historic election. What does it mean? - Multipolarista

Lana Payne for Unifor National President | Lana Payne for Unifor National President

SWIFT dollar decline

How Meltdowns Brought Progressive Groups to a Standstill

Capitalism in crisis: World Bank report paints grim picture - Spring

How Canada’s grocery ‘cartel’ doubled its profits while food bank lines grew ⋆ The Breach

Privatization is a climate killer

Ukraine war: When you are in a hole, stop digging

The scissors of slump – Michael Roberts Blog

Executive Excess 2022 - Institute for Policy Studies

Public Service Voter | CUPE Saskatchewan

In a pandemic downturn, worker co-ops are on the rise

Thousands march in Toronto on Nakba Day - Spring

The State Organizes the Capitalist Class. The Working Class Will Have to Organize Itself.

How Worker Power Drives Technological Progress

Crypto unTethered – Michael Roberts Blog

Crypto’s Hype and Promises Were Based on Lies From the Very Beginning

The US-China Trade War Is About to Hit the Middle East

In a World of Great Disorder and Extravagant Lies, We Look for Compassion: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2022)

The Coming Debt Crisis

Deconstructed Podcast: U.S. Is Stealing Afghanistan’s Money

The Federalist Society’s 40-Year Plot to Undo Roe v. Wade

The Southwest’s Drought and Fires Are a Window to Our Climate Change Future — ProPublica

Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., son of right-wing dictator, elected Philippines president

Here come Canada’s crypto-conservatives

Justin Trudeau’s feminist rhetoric won’t help get someone an abortion

It’s not looking good for 2022 – Michael Roberts Blog

Inflation: wages versus profits – Michael Roberts Blog

By Gutting Its Own Public Universities, Alberta Is Showing Canada How to Destroy Education

The Scientific World Is Far Too Obsessed With “Genius”

We Need an Internet Beyond Big Tech

Sinn Féin’s Historic Opportunity

Canada’s Noxious Conservatives Are Duking It Out for Party Leadership

The End of Roe v. Wade Is the Culmination of Years of Right-Wing Efforts

Overturning Roe v. Wade Shows the Right Has Nothing but Contempt for Democracy

PayPal Blocks Multiple Alternative Media Figures Critical Of US Empire Narratives – Caitlin Johnstone

Supreme Court’s draft opinion on abortion sends jolt through U.S.

After Berliners Voted to Nationalize Housing, City Hall Isn’t Delivering

Justin Trudeau Insists That Fixing Infrastructure Requires Paying Tithes to the Rich

How Young Workers Are Unionizing Starbucks

Ukraine’s first assailant—international lenders

Freebies for fat cats: a loophole Trump partly closed lives large in Canada

Reflections on the Sri Lankan economic crisis

NIST Study Shows Everyday Plastic Products Release Trillions of Microscopic Particles Into Water | NIST

Has globalisation ended? – Michael Roberts Blog

How the FDA’s food division fails to regulate health and safety hazards

Is the US stalling urgent diplomatic efforts in Ukraine?

Lowkey: ‘They Are Trying to Stop Pro-Palestinian Music Being Made’

The housing market is broken, but Pierre Poilievre won’t fix it

Canada’s Right-Wing Think Tanks Love Race Science

Jean-Luc Mélenchon Has a Mandate to Rebuild the French Left

Unionization spreads across Starbucks outlets in US despite efforts to intimidate workers

$8-billion budget boost in military spending draws mixed reviews

Venezuela: Inflation Lowest in Decade as Credit Suisse Forecasts 20 Percent Growth

Labor and workers’ rights are at the heart of Chile’s new Constitutional Convention

Thank You, Jean-Luc Mélenchon

They Never Killed Thomas Sankara

The Privatization of Water Is a Threat to Global Health

Climate change and wars – Michael Roberts Blog

Federal Budget 2022 - Citizens' Press

The Dollar Devours the Euro

A Milestone: Venezuela’s Communard Union Stages Its Foundational Congress

Social Housing for All

The billion dollar deal that made Google and Amazon partners in the Israeli occupation of Palestine

How Amazon Beat the Union in Alberta

A public pension fund is Canada’s newest mega-landlord ⋆ The Breach

The submerging market debt crisis – Michael Roberts Blog

Inflation: Reframing the narrative

The end of dollar dominance?

How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment — ProPublica

We don’t need capitalism’s Metaverse

The NDP is run by a consultant class geared toward capitulation

No, Automation Isn’t Going to Make Work Disappear

The Starbucks Union Drive in Calgary May Have Failed, but the Larger Battle Is Just Starting

“We’re Going to Be Conservative.” Official Orders Books Removed From Schools, Targeting Titles About Transgender People. — ProPublica

We Are in a Period of Great Tectonic Shifts: The Eleventh Newsletter (2022)

Rest In Peace, NDP (1961-2022)

Colombia’s Left-Wing Turn

Amazon Workers at Three Delivery Stations Just Staged a Walkout

With $10 Trillion in Assets, BlackRock Has Set a New Benchmark for Corporate Power

Ukraine-Russia: like an earthquake – Michael Roberts Blog

Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan

A realist take on the Ukraine war

Marking Two Years Of Death, Despair And Political Apathy

The War That Never Happened

Canadian Pension Funds Are Financing the Exploitation of the Elderly

Globalisation and the relocation of capital and labour

Venezuela defines conditions for sale of oil to U.S.

Russia-Ukraine war began in 2014, not 2022

The three contradictions of the Long Depression – Michael Roberts Blog

Lights Out: Profitable Utility Company Shut Off Electricity to Homes Hundreds of Thousands of Times — ProPublica

High-Tech Pandemic Solutions Don’t Save Lives. They Just Boost Profits.

On March 11, 2022, the Common Front for Social Justice celebrates 25 years of activism – NB Media Co-op

Unifor statement on two years of the COVID-19 pandemic | Unifor National

VIA Rail P3 privatization must be stopped in its tracks | Unifor National

Fallen angels – Michael Roberts Blog

Ukraine Needs a Global Antiwar Movement

Université Sainte-Anne professors, librarians on strike | CBC News

Beyond corporate feminism | The Media Co-op

What’s with all this chatter about the Canadian Bill of Rights? The latest far-right talking point explained - Alberta Politics

The Cuban Blockade at 60

The Left Must Stand With the Ukrainian People and Against Putin’s War

Against Imperialism

COVID-19: a perfect storm?

Russia: From sanctions to slump?

The Russia-Ukraine War: Why the hawks prevailed

The far-right’s dangerous political momentum

Uber’s Proposal for Portable Benefits Is a Poison Pill

EU risks token climate offer to Africa – POLITICO

Understanding inflation, ideology, and bargaining wages - Citizens' Press

Collapse of energy utilities sounds a warning bell : New Frame

Inside the New York City Starbucks Union Battle

BP, Chevron and other oil firms aren't living up to climate pledges, study finds : NPR

Prospects for the Teamsters Under New Leadership - The Bullet

Chile in the crosshairs of a Canadian resource rush ⋆ The Breach

Colombia is Bleeding to Death

Ukraine: trapped in a war zone – Michael Roberts Blog

Canada Must Investigate the Convoy Money | The Tyee

How we blocked the convoy in Ottawa

Invoking The Emergencies Act Is A Dangerous Mistake

The Terrible Fate Facing the Afghan People

MMT, Marglin and Marx – Michael Roberts Blog

A union signed a deal with Uber — but drivers have questions | The Star

Covid, Climate Change: Is the World Ready for “Global Public Goods”? - New Labor Forum

Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design | Cornell Chronicle

Canadian politicians were warned in 2019 about extremist fundraising online | The Star

When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord — ProPublica

Freedom convoy is steering pandemic response to the right

Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” Is a Front for a Right-Wing, Anti-Worker Agenda

The sugar runs out – Michael Roberts Blog

The perils of left populism – Canadian Dimension

In response to capitalist economic turmoil, war funding soars

What the Left can learn from the “Freedom Convoy”

GM workers in Mexico elect independent union in historic labor vote | Reuters

Despite U.S. Embargo, Cuba Aims to Share Homegrown Vaccine with Global South | Democracy Now!

Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity - Amnesty International

An evening with Dr. Cornel West: Being a hope amid crises

‘Unethical and inappropriate’: What coroners’ records reveal about the gaps that led to migrant worker deaths | The Star

Canadian Media Is Happy To Risk Arming Neo-Nazis In Ukraine

How Canada can give Land Back ⋆ The Breach

Amazon and the power of big digital platforms

Graphika: The Deep State’s Beard for Controlling the Information Age

USA vs. China: Whose Economy is Winning? - YouTube

CUPW - 2022-01-28 - CUPW Statement on the Uber and UFCW National Agreement

UFCW signs controversial closed-door deal with Uber

A Former Hacker’s Guide to Boosting Your Online Security — ProPublica

On Ukraine-Russia, don’t let war fever consume us

Venezuelan Electoral Council Sets Recall Referendum Process in Motion

Despite Decades of Hacking Attacks, Companies Leave Vast Amounts of Sensitive Data Unprotected — ProPublica

Canada’s mainstream media lap up spy agency claims on Ukraine, manufacturing consent for conflict

UK High Court allows Julian Assange to appeal against extradition but on limited grounds

How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ Plans to Control All Palestinian Content Online

Saudi Arabia is escalating its attacks on Yemen, and Canada is helping them do it

Italy’s Recovery Plan Shows Why Public Spending Isn’t Always “Left-Wing”

At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight | Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

China launches Global South Economic Alliance to challenge U.S. ‘unilateralism’ and ‘Cold-War mentality’

Canada, usually the voice of moderation, is playing the cowboy on Ukraine crisis | The Star

Our Daily Sanction

Sri Lanka nears complete economic meltdown as food shortage worsens : Peoples Dispatch

A made-in-Canada blueprint for defunding police ⋆ The Breach

The hidden origin of the escalating Ukraine-Russia conflict

Chartbook #68 Putin's Challenge to Western hegemony - the 2022 edition.

The Green Transition Can’t Be an Excuse to Fire Workers

A Worldwide Tax on Extreme Wealth Could Lift Billions Out of Poverty

A Canadian Company Used COVID Wage Supports to Hire Scabs

A world rate of profit: important new evidence – Michael Roberts Blog

"Hell Line": Lessons from Seoul's controversial privatized subway line

How Scholars Are Countering Well-Funded Attacks on Critical Race Theory - YES! Magazine

Left Municipal Election Platform Launched in Vancouver - The Bullet

Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 failure exposes the bankruptcy of neoliberalism

Humanity at ‘doom’s doorstep’ says Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

We Are Human, but in the Dark We Wish for Light: The Third Newsletter (2022)

Will a four-day work week come to Canada?

Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme

Rentier Capitalism and Class Warfare in Kazakhstan

Coastal GasLink Attempts to Block Reporters from Wet’suwet’en Territory

Delgamuukw: the Man and the Momentous Ruling

Canada’s Hospital Crisis Has Been Decades In The Making

Property Developers Have No Place in Local Government

One foot in the present, another in the future: Food Coops

From Aerial Strikes to Starvation, Afghanistan’s People Bear the Brunt of the West’s Failed Taliban Tactics

How the media misdiagnosed the pandemic ⋆ The Breach

On NATO all parties agree—follow orders without question

Defying U.S. Caesar Act, China admits Syria into BRI

Striking Workers at Columbia University Built a More Democratic Union and Won Big Gains | Portside

Capitalism, climate change and the rising cost of food

Socialism Cannot Postpone Its Promise of Democracy

Financial Markets under capitalism | Prabhat Patnaik

A touch of class struggle in Germany’s car industry

The Full Extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes Are Slowly Being Revealed

Canadian police expanding surveillance powers via new digital “operations centres” ⋆ The Breach

BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen | BBC licence fee | The Guardian

Revealed: UK Gov't Plans Publicity Blitz to Undermine Chat Privacy - Rolling Stone

Hawkish Pundits Downplay Threat of War, Ukraine's Nazi Ties - FAIR

How to Shut Down an Israeli Weapons Factory

ASSA 2022: part two – the heterodox – Michael Roberts Blog

Putin draws the line for colour revolutions - Indian Punchline

A Programme for a Future Society That We Will Build in the Present: The Second Newsletter (2022)

We Will Build the Future: A Plan to Save the Planet

Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity : Peoples Dispatch

U.S.-Russia talks may be the last chance

The U.S. is intentionally strangling Venezuela

Understanding Canadian imperialism

Canada offers to support U.S. measures to deter Russia in confrontation with Ukraine | CBC News

Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’

Texas scientists develop a ‘people’s vaccine,’ offer it free to the world

What a Socialist Response to Inflation Should Look Like

When Canada’s Housing Bubble Pops, It Will Cause Misery and Ruin

Unlocking U.S. sanctions: China signs construction & energy deals with Cuba

Putin and Xi plot their SWIFT escape

Tariq Ali: ‘Democracy is largely a set of rituals now’

Price controls: do they work? – Michael Roberts Blog

Drone warfare: The world needs to end US impunity

How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics

We Should Nationalize Tyson Foods

We Dance into the New Year Banging Our Hammers and Swinging Our Sickles: The Fifty-Second Newsletter

The Production Gap report

Hospital worker blows whistle on spread of New Brunswick’s mystery illness: Bombshell report – NB Media Co-op

Averting Disaster: Declaration of the 5th European Forum of the Left - The Bullet

Forecast for 2022 – Michael Roberts Blog

2021: A View from the Left

Sharon Graham: ‘We Must Build Popular, Working-Class Power’

Plans to capture CO2 from coal plants wasted federal dollars, watchdog says - The Verge

CPress end of 2021 message from Graham Cox - Citizens' Press

2021: A pandemic year in books - Citizens' Press

World Association for Political Economy 15th Convention – Michael Roberts Blog

Do Unto Others

Salvador Allende’s Grandson Responds to Boric: The Human Rights Double Standard and ‘Chic’ Leftism

I Want to Get Our Rights from the Americans Who Harmed Us: The Fifty-First Newsletter

Crash course: Starting a union in your workplace

Absurd Guardian article declares China world’s only imperialist power

The Challenge of Chile | The Nation

How Chile’s Left Won

When Debts Become Unpayable, They Should Be Forgiven

The Economics of Modern Imperialism in: Historical Materialism - Ahead of print

Media Forget Afghan Plight as US Sanctions Drive Mass Famine Risk - FAIR

Cuba now exporting Covid vaccines

Chile: copper-bottomed? – Michael Roberts Blog

Cuba’s successful COVID response started with robust health care institutions ⋆ The Breach

The Dirty Secret of America’s Clean Dishes — ProPublica

Boric’s victory in Chile is a blow to the far-right

The coronavirus pandemic has widened the gap between the Global North and the Global South

Progressive anger erupts after Manchin kills Build Back Better

Chileans elect Gabriel Boric president, reject ultra-conservative candidate

Learning the Lessons of the NHS Strike Ballot

In Berlin, Overworked Hospital Staff Went on Strike for a Month — and Won

The Establishment Feared Corbyn’s Internationalism

Cuba soars to near top of COVID vaccination charts on decades-old bet | Reuters

A Better Future For Canadian Telecoms Lives In Saskatchewan

Socialist Gabriel Boric elected Chile's youngest ever president with highest ever vote tally

The Hellish Reality of Amazon’s Human Resources Department

Washington’s New Ambassador to Mexico Is Already Wreaking Havoc

Canadians Deserve Truly Universal Health Care

Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes

The case for abolishing billionaires ⋆ The Breach

Police Brutality Is Never Justified By Someone’s Behaviour

As UN recognizes Maduro, Canada increasingly isolated on world stage

Omicron: Panic or Dismiss? Mourn or Organize?

The central bankers’ dilemma – Michael Roberts Blog

Cuba Defeats Covid-19 with Learning, Science, and Unity - CounterPunch.org

Supply Chains Are in Crisis, but Logistics Bosses Are Doing Better Than Ever

Canada Has Long Been an Accomplice to America’s Imperialist Wars

Canadians Don’t Want to Work at Tim Hortons

Op-ed: Race underpins Ford government's pandemic response to paid sick days - NOW Magazine

I lived through the darkness of the Pinochet era. Is Chile heading back there?

John Pilger: The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange

World inequality – Michael Roberts Blog

Why Britain Needs to Reindustrialise

Canada must prepare for America’s rapid decline

Canada is violating international law by selling arms to Saudi Arabia

If you believe in a public NHS, the new health and care bill should set off alarm bells | Allyson Pollock and Peter Roderick | The Guardian

The Gig Economy’s Days in Europe Are Numbered | WIRED

Canada’s big banks pay out $19 billion in record bonuses ⋆ The Breach

Why Amazon is terrified of Its U.S. workers unionizing

At a Time of Crisis in the Supply Chain, Workers Have Enormous Power

France’s Éric Zemmour Is Whipping His Fans Into a Violent Frenzy

Huge 20-Year Study Shows Trickle-Down Is a Myth, Inequality Rampant

Wolastoqey Nations claim title to land owned by JD Irving and other companies due to “reckless resource extraction” – NB Media Co-op

‘So Far from God, so Close to the United States’ - The Bullet

How Big Pharma’s Profiteering Led to the Omicron Variant

Chile Is Still in the Midst of a Political Revolution

Barbados Has Rid Itself of the Queen But Not Neocolonialism

Ontario’s Pension Fund Managers Are Propping up the Fossil Fuel and Real Estate Industries

FFAW celebrates and the struggle lives on | Unifor

Is Neoliberalism Finished? - YouTube

The peasantry’s victory over imperialism | Prabhat Patnaik

RCMP still clearing Indigenous lands for corporate interests ⋆ The Breach

Mosul, Destroyed by War, Waits to be Rebuilt While the Hunt for Hidden ISIS Treasure Goes On

Views on China – Michael Roberts Blog

Europe Went Bananas for Gorillas. Then Its Workers Rose Up | WIRED

NLRB DIRECTS NEW ELECTION AT AMAZON IN BESSEMER, ALABAMA - Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union

British Columbia floods reveal our system’s skewed priorities

Black Friday Strikes and Protests Target Amazon in 20 Countries

This Black Friday, remember the many workers that make shopping possible | The Star

Cargill issues lockout notice to staff at one of Canada's largest beef-processing plants | CBC News

Indian farmers defend rights of farmers everywhere

Horgan’s NDP “suppressing” a party debate on LNG industry, insiders say

The great Canadian media swindle

Texas’ abortion ban is having a ‘domino effect’ on clinics across the U.S.

Five Reasons the Left Won in Venezuela

Dominant PSUV Sweeps Venezuela’s ‘Mega-Elections’

What China Learned From U.S. Capitalism’s Development

‘We Want Her Out of Jail Today.’ RCMP Slammed for Arresting Journalists | The Tyee

The Fight for Chile’s Future

Cuba’s Vaccine Could End up Saving Millions of Lives

Microworkers are “Disempowered to a Degree Previously Unseen in Capitalist History”

With Reformers Victorious, It’s a New Day for the Teamsters

Workers in Atlantic Canada Face Down Austerity

RCMP arrest journalists, matriarchs, land defenders on Wet’suwet’en territory

Why Our Climate Isn’t Jumping for Joy After COP26

Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense

Protest in Cuba: Why it Failed - CounterPunch.org

How a Labour Government Helped to Crush Iran’s Workers’ Movement

After a year of struggle by farmers, Indian government forced to withdraw farm laws

Time to reset Canada-China relations on a path to peace | MR Online

Essential service workers fight privatization and COVID-19 on leading university campuses | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Whither the global economy? – Michael Roberts Blog

Bowing to protests, India’s Modi agrees to repeal farm laws

The COVID Supply Chain Breakdown Can Be Traced to Capitalist Globalization

A Guide To The Ruling Class’s Domination And Destruction Of Canadian Media

Ontario’s Government Is Transferring Billions From Workers’ Compensation Funds to Bosses

In the Name of Saving the Climate, They Will Uberise the Farmlands: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2021)

In search of luxurious communism

Court Cases Show Colombian Government Role in Paramilitary Killings, US Implicated - CounterPunch.org

Billionaires won’t save us

The US Is Blocking Climate Reparations

Art and Capital Have Become Nearly Indistinguishable

Striking New Brunswick workers defeat Higgs

Opening this article voids warranty | MR Online

Abolish the House of Lords

The IATSE Contract Vote Is a Worst-Case Scenario

Canadians Need to Replace the Debt Economy With a Living Wage

Public Spending Isn’t Socialism

Why is the U.S. Fueling the November 15 Cuba Protests? - CounterPunch.org

NB debrief special on the CUPE strike [video] – NB Media Co-op

Why We Need Socialist Spotify

We Can’t Stop Climate Change Without a Transport Revolution

UN-backed banker alliance announces “green” plan to transform the global financial system | MR Online

Infiltrating Amazon: What I learned going undercover at the corporate giant ⋆ The Breach

Commonsense Solidarity: How a Working-Class Coalition Can Be Built, and Maintained

The Labor Beat Is Dead — Long Live the Labor Beat

The Metaverse Must Be Stopped

Why Are Union Leaders Letting Doug Ford Off The Hook

The Royal Canadian Legion Should Stay Out Of Classrooms

Back to work: The black hole of labour relations – NB Media Co-op

Des femmes qui occupent des emplois essentiels, pour des salaires dérisoires – NB Media Co-op

Higgs should listen to health experts and front-line workers | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Financing the climate – Michael Roberts Blog

Will the People with Guns Allow Our Planet to Breathe: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2021)

Big Tech and the Current Challenges Facing the Class Struggle

The United States is organizing a color revolution in Cuba for November 15 | MR Online

Ford forced to $15 three years after cuts

Newly Released Documents Expose How US Intelligence Meddled in Venezuelan Elections via Social Media

Poverty in the pandemic – Michael Roberts Blog

With Afghanistan fiasco, Canada’s feminist foreign policy lies in pieces

Columbia University Union Is on Strike

Give workers fair wages: Open letter to New Brunswick Premier Higgs from a patient – NB Media Co-op

Open letter to New Brunswick Premier Higgs - Citizens' Press #nbpoli

Premier Higgs heard CUPE members loud and clear | Canadian Union of Public Employees

A world divided: global vaccine trade and production | Bruegel

Poison in the Air — ProPublica

New Brunswick workers strike back at Higgs’ wage suppression

Canada’s Eviscerated Democracy - The Bullet

What’s the use of the Pandora Papers?

Sorry, Justin Trudeau: There is no equivalence between the extreme right and the extreme left

Irving media unsurprisingly blames CUPE workers for strike – NB Media Co-op

Rolling River School Division custodians and cleaners begin strike | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Rolling River School Division Custodians and Cleaners On Strike - CUPE Manitoba

Manitoba school division custodians and cleaners on strike | CTV News

March to the legislature | CUPE New Brunswick

Anti-poverty and social justice groups support striking CUPE workers – NB Media Co-op

CUPE NB: Province-wide job action is the only way left for us to be heard – NB Media Co-op

Strike Prep Resources | CUPE New Brunswick

New Brunswick Government breaks off talks: Strike imminent | Canadian Union of Public Employees

COP-out 26 – Michael Roberts Blog

Big tech’s push for automation hides the grim reality of ‘microwork’ | The Guardian

A Welfare State for the Wealthy

The Fight for a Workers’ Hollywood

In Russia, Communists Are Standing Up Against Putin’s Fraud

Canadaland: The Podcast Holding Power to Account

A farewell to CERB and the future of EI

David Graeber Knew Ordinary People Could Remake the World

Why Not a Financial Transactions Tax? - CounterPunch.org

Cuba now part of China’s ‘Belt and Road Energy’ alliance | MR Online

How Finland’s Public Childcare System Puts Britain to Shame

Stocks, profit margins and the economy – Michael Roberts Blog

New York Times Journalist Ben Hubbard Hacked with Pegasus after Reporting on Previous Hacking Attempts - The Citizen Lab

Don’t Give in to the Culture Industry’s Appeals to Nostalgia

Why Record Numbers of Workers Are Quitting and Striking

Federal pandemic assistance on the chopping block—another way to ‘discipline’ workers

AMLO Is Nationalizing Mexico’s Lithium Supply

Only Labor Can Force Canadian Pension Funds to Divest From Oil

Division over IATSE deal as members organize Wildcat walkouts

Stagflation: a demand or supply side story? – Michael Roberts Blog

Hospital to run GNU Health, openSUSE - openSUSE News

The Pandora Papers show how a corrupt system functions

Afghanistan: Our Struggle for Freedom Continues - The Bullet

A World without hunger: The Fortieth Newsletter (2021)

What has the Trade “War” between the United States and China achieved? | MR Online

CIA Op or Not, the Pandora Papers Are a Big Deal

Chinese 'Disinformation' and US Propaganda - FAIR

Continuous Crisis in Lebanon – Spectre Journal

We’re Losing Our Humanity, and the Pandemic Is to Blame — ProPublica

Labour Confronts the Climate Crisis -- pension discussion | OFL

Venezuelan government condemned for ‘anti-communist’ attacks and alleged political oppression | Morning Star

Democratise Central Banks

China at a turning point? – Michael Roberts Blog

The three Ms are free. What now?

A Television Makeup Artist Explains Why IATSE Members Are Willing to Strike

Impoverished Afghans live amid enormous riches

Inside the Pandora Papers - CounterPunch.org

The CIA Plot to Kidnap or Kill Julian Assange in London is a story that is Being Mistakenly Ignored - CounterPunch.org

CUPE 3261 reports that U of T is contracting out caretaking services – The Varsity

10 things for socialists to keep in mind on climate change policies - Citizens' Press

MMT and Marxist monetary theory – a reply to Bill Mitchell by a man with no name – Michael Roberts Blog

A World Without Sci-Hub – Palladium

Social impact bonds a bad idea the Liberals won’t let go of | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Teamsters organizing workers' unions at 9 Amazon.com facilities in Canada | Ottawa Citizen

The Fed, interest rates and stagflation – Michael Roberts Blog

Clear away the hype: the US and Australia signed a nuclear arms deal, simple as that : Peoples Dispatch

Global climate strike 2021: The return of students to the streets just weeks before Cop26 | The Independent

Young global climate strikers vow change is coming – from the streets | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Cuban Diplomat on U.S. Blockade, Havana’s Homegrown Vaccines & Biden’s Hypocrisy on Human Rights | Democracy Now!

Developing nations' plea to world's wealthy at U.N.: stop vaccine hoarding | Reuters

Rooftop solar to roll out on China’s public buildings

Canada: no change – Michael Roberts Blog

Social Justice Must Include Arts Funding - The Bullet

Documenting The Past 40 Years Of Media Election Endorsements

Corporations Control Canada’s Infrastructure — But the Major Parties Won’t Confront Them

Call Center Workers in Australia Are Unionizing to Demand Better Pay and Conditions

‘Don’t panic’: business minister bids to calm crisis fears as UK gas prices soar | Energy bills | The Guardian

Participative Democracy under Siege: A Conversation with Luis Britto García

China and common prosperity – Michael Roberts Blog

It’s Time for a Wealth Tax in Canada

Salvadorans reject the adoption of Bitcoin as national currency : Peoples Dispatch

Solely Because of the Increasing Disorder: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2021)

Des employés gouvernementaux se prononcent en faveur de la grève au N.-B. | Radio-Canada.ca

Bargaining Forward With New Brunswick's Front Line Heroes' Union - YouTube

What does 20% look like if you are a CUPE member in NB? - YouTube

Remembering Canadian Media’s Post-9/11 Bloodlust

“Foreign Investors” Aren’t Causing Canada’s Housing Crisis. Capitalism Is.

Neo-Liberalism and Nationhood | MR Online

Michael Hudson v. George Soros on China’s Rejection of “Market” Capitalism

Hurricane Ida’s rapid intensification spurred by climate change, bad luck - Axios

Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors | New Labor Forum

Booms and bezzles – Michael Roberts Blog

How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users — ProPublica

New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Online Education, Advocacy and Other Speech | Electronic Frontier Foundation

GNU Health emergency response in Haiti | MeanMicio

Stop Listening to Tony Blair

Ed Asner Was a Proud Socialist in Hollywood

The Taliban will Escape Pariah Status by Posing as the Enemy of ISIS - CounterPunch.org

RAWA responds to the Taliban takeover | Green Left

Five Ways the U.S. Created and Prolonged the Afghan Crisis - Progressive.org

CUPW’s difficult choice – Canadian Dimension

It’s time to make Canadian medicare truly universal

Canadian Workers Are Unwittingly Funding Bolsonaro’s Water Privatization

Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism | Climate & Capitalism

“Mayhem”: Chaotic Scenes at Kabul Airport as Suicide Bombs Kill 110+ Afghans & U.S. Troops | Democracy Now!

Some of Canada’s Biggest Capitalists Are Plotting an Attack on Canadian Workers

Public sector workers deserve fair contracts now | Canadian Union of Public Employees

The Media Myth of 'Once Prosperous' and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez

The urgent need to tax billionaires out of existence

Nicaragua: Ortega Arrests Opposition Candidates Ahead of November 2021 Election - New Politics

The rate and the mass of profit – Michael Roberts Blog

NEB Statement on Comprehensive Workplace Immunization Programs and Mandatory Vaccinations | Unifor National

Unions Are Helping Workers With Changing Return-to-Office Policies - Bloomberg

The Secret Diary of a ‘Sustainable Investor’ — Part 1 | by Tariq Fancy | Aug, 2021 | Medium

Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies’ “false claims” about blue hydrogen | Ars Technica

The Jackson Hole dilemma – Michael Roberts Blog

The Choice Facing Afghans: Do a Deal With the Taliban or Flee - CounterPunch.org

The Return of the Taliban 20 Years Later - CounterPunch.org

Canada’s Military Is Spying on Canadian Citizens

Ken Loach: Keir Starmer Is Mr Bean Trying to Act Like Stalin

Unifor statement on the situation in Afghanistan | Unifor National

How Canada failed its farmers and agri-producers

The relative decline of US imperialism – Michael Roberts Blog

Analysis: Benchmark of Big Oil on methane emissions shows ‘significant gap’ between reality and reporting | Reuters

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan back with a bang

Russian embassy: Afghan leader fled with cars full of cash

It is Government Weakness, Not Taliban Strength, That Condemns Afghanistan - CounterPunch.org

Cuban Dilemmas, Socialist Debates - The Bullet

Canada’s disaster in Afghanistan

PSAC statement on vaccination requirements for federal public service workers | Public Service Alliance of Canada

Climate change: the fault of humanity? – Michael Roberts Blog

Venezuela to Roll Out New Monetary Reconversion

Monthly Review | The Political Economy of the U.S.-China Technology War

Capitalism Is What’s Burning the Planet, Not Average People

Secret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut” — ProPublica

Was COVID-19 research funding well spent? | University Affairs

O (no!) Canada: Fast-moving proposal creates filtering, blocking and reporting rules—and speech police to enforce them | Electronic Frontier Foundation

New York Times Tech Staff to Walk Out, Escalating Union Fight

The Procedural is Political - Cosmonaut

Canada undermines Haitian democracy: déjà vu all over again

How Canadian ‘aid’ is stifling development and prosperity in West Africa

United States: Activision workers walk out against sexist oppression

Airbrushing History

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free to all | Science | AAAS

China’s crackdown on the three mountains – Michael Roberts Blog

Remembering the Great Scientific Crusader Who Showed That No Biological Basis for Race Exists: Richard Lewontin - CounterPunch.org

Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life | Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Canadian Government Acts Shamefully Ambivalent on Cuba, and Backs US Aggression on Venezuela - CounterPunch.org

René González of the Cuban Five on Cuba’s Challenge and Washington’s Hypocrisy

Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - CounterPunch.org

The Democratic Socialists of America Can Mobilize Gen Z'ers Like Me | Teen Vogue

Climate Change: Why we can’t trust mainstream media | MR Online

Washington beats the drum of regime change, but Cuba responds to its own revolutionary rhythm: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2021) | MR Online

DOCUMENT: James Weldon Johnson, Self-determining Haiti, 1920 | MR Online

We’re Burnt Out – and Unless We Demand a New Normal, We Will Be Forever | Novara Media

N.B. advocacy group calls for improved workers' rights after COVID-19 | CBC News

A Postal Worker Begged for Stronger COVID-19 Protections. She Ended Up Spending Six Weeks in the Hospital. — ProPublica

Inside the Decades-Long Conservative Strategy to Weaken Roe v. Wade ‹ Literary Hub

End the Blockade of Cuba – The Socialist Campaign Group of MPs – Labour Outlook

Chris Hedges: Bless the Traitors

As Taliban Sweeps Through Afghanistan, Malalai Joya Calls U.S. Concern for Women a “Shameless Lie” | Democracy Now!

China and the supply chain: a comment on the June 2021 White House review

'Burn It All Down' Is a Call for Decolonization, Not Arson | The Tyee

England’s Footballers Are Changing the Conversation. It’s Time the Left Caught Up | Novara Media

Read Cornel West’s scathing resignation letter to Harvard Divinity School. ‹ Literary Hub

“We Just Want the Basics”: Rare Protests in Cuba Amid Deep Economic Crisis, Ongoing U.S. Blockade

Bezos’ dystopian legacy goes far beyond Amazon | Progressive International

The Forever War in Afghanistan is Far From Over - CounterPunch.org

Afghanistan stunned by scale and speed of security forces’ collapse | The Guardian

The US Must End Its Brutal Sanctions Against Cuba, Not Intervene There

Capitalism: has the leopard changed its spots? – Michael Roberts Blog

The rise and fall of the Green Party

Legacies of Definancialization and Defending Real Economy in China

The Fight to Transform Peru Has Only Just Begun

Miners in Ontario Are Mobilizing Against Another Corporate Rip-Off

Politics are coming for the "apolitical" Olympics — Quartz

How Teachers Won the Right to Get Pregnant

Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin: Nova Scotia’s reactionary girlboss

Statues, churches, vandalism, and the nationalist and colonial tales we like to call ‘history’

How Germany’s Far Right Is Building Up Anti-Immigrant Parties in the Balkans

The Canadian Mining Company Dominicans Call “Worse Than Columbus”

Venezuela to COVAX: Send Vaccines or Return Payment

Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the 'Most Extreme in World Weather Records' | Common Dreams News

Intercepted: Corporate Counterinsurgency Against Line 3 Pipeline Resistance

Haiti president Jovenel Moïse assassinated | The Guardian

The National Strike in Colombia: A Trade Union Perspective - The Bullet

Out of Lockdown and Back into the Long Depression – Spectre Journal

Marx’s reproduction schema – Michael Roberts Blog

Where is Socialism in Venezuela? Lessons from the Cultural Revolution - CounterPunch.org

Mapuche woman picked to lead architects of Chile's new constitution | Reuters

Monthly Review | Is China Transforming the World?

Key Assange Witness Recants—With Zero Corporate Media Coverage - FAIR

After BC’s historic heatwave, Canada should double down on building retrofits

Communist emerges as front runner in Chilean presidential race

Canada Day Statement: The History of Violence Against Indigenous Peoples Fully Warrants the Use of The Word “Genocide”

Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule really did for India | The Guardian

Billionaire Tycoons Are Turning French Radio Into a Copy of Fox News

Big Tech Is Killing Movies

Canada First Exposed: Months Inside One of Canada's Biggest, Youngest, and Newest White Supremacist Chatrooms

Canada building global network of military bases in aggressive shift ⋆ The Breach

“Eyebrow-raising”: Loblaw monitoring unions alongside cyberthreats, natural disasters as “risks” ⋆ The Breach

The regional threat of civil war in Afghanistan

US, EU, Canada Impose Conditions for Possible Sanctions ‘Review’

Geopolitics, profit, and poppies: how the CIA turned Afghanistan into a failed narco-state

‘Turning right, repressing left’: How Venezuela’s Maduro shifted course | MR Online

N.L. ending controversial practice that's led to newborns being seized from mothers | CBC News

Novavax doses could be made at new NRC facility in December

America's continued move toward socialism - Axios

Workers transformed a McDonald’s in France into a food bank - The Washington Post

Matt Hancock: Drop plan to scrape NHS patient records and share with private companies — Foxglove

Amazon Is a Symbol of Capitalism’s Wastefulness

Monthly Review | The Guaidó Era: A Sixth, Very Long Coup Attempt

1% own 45% of the world’s personal wealth while nearly 3bn people have little or no wealth at all – Michael Roberts Blog

India Walton: Corporate Democrats Gave Us Austerity, We Need Something Different

India Walton, Socialist Challenger, Stuns Buffalo's Incumbent Mayor - The New York Times

6 priorities India Walton outlined in her campaign for Buffalo mayor | Buffalo Politics News | buffalonews.com

In Buffalo, New York, Voters Consider a Socialist Mayor – Mother Jones

Toronto is removing people from homeless encampments in Trinity Bellwoods Park

New 'one of a kind' boat will help Drag the Red continue search for missing in Winnipeg rivers | CBC News

Inspections were promised to stop the rampant abuse inside sweatshops. So why are workers’ conditions ‘worse than ever before?’ | The Star

On Prime Day, Organizers Want You to Think of the Workers | WIRED

Profits call the tune – Michael Roberts Blog

Pandemic shows EI system in need of significant retooling, committee finds | CBC News

Watch Nunavut MP's powerful goodbye message highlighting racism in Canada | CBC News

Canada's LGBTQ population now 1 million — but hate crimes are rising too: Statistics Canada | CBC News

Make Canada Day a national day of reckoning | The Star

Mexico’s Wall of Resistance: Why AMLO’s Fight for Energy Sovereignty Needs Our Support | New Labor Forum

How crowded are migrant worker bunkhouses? A survey shines a light on housing conditions that ‘cost lives’ | The Star

Canada has an Islamophobia problem — and conservatives are at the root of it | National Observer

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax — ProPublica

The painful recent history of targeted attacks on Muslims in Canada | London Free Press

Grave containing 215 Indigenous children evidence of Canadian residential school genocide

The productivity crisis – Michael Roberts Blog

Peace in Colombia Should Mean Land Reform and an End to Hunger

Van Buren is a Victory Against Overbroad Interpretations of the CFAA, and Protects Security Researchers | Electronic Frontier Foundation

“You Can’t Stop the Spread of the Virus if You Don’t Stop it in Peel” | The Local

Donate link for: Trade Unions for Energy Democracy

From CRSB to provincial schemes, permanent & employer-paid sick days still missing - Decent Work and Health Network

We grew up hearing horror stories of residential schools. The Kamloops children’s remains show — yet again — the truth of our peoples’ nightmare | The Star

The unending nightmare of Gaza – Michael Roberts Blog

GMB secures union recognition for 70,000 Uber drivers in UK | ITF Global

Higgs has 100 Days to settle a fair deal with CUPE members | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Les boîtes Pine64: Bienvenue au monde merveilleux du logiciel libre - Citizens' Press

Fixing Long-term Care - Citizens' Press

Amazon workers are rising up around the world to say: enough | Valter Sanches, Christy Hoffman and Casper Gelderblom | The Guardian

Union Leaders: No Deals with Uber and Lyft! | Portside

They were blamed and vilified throughout the pandemic, but the youth are showing up in droves for vaccinations | The Star

British Black Lives Matter activist in critical condition after being shot in the head - Axios

Pine64 development box fun: welcome to the wonderful world of software freedom - Citizens' Press @thepine64

Palestinian Trade Unions call for immediate and urgent action from international Trade Unions - Citizens' Press

After Almost a Decade, Fight for $15 Has Made Progress — But It’s Not Enough

Durban port workers refuse to offload cargo from Israeli ship in solidarity with Palestine

WestJet workers join Unifor | Unifor National

Better rail services promised in huge shake-up - BBC News

Emmanuel Macron’s Government Has Banned Palestine Solidarity Demonstrations

Email Your MP: We Need a National Intercity Public Transit Service Now!

Research in the North - We are stronger when we work together - Statement from Dr. Andrew P. Dean - Regarding NOSM and Lakehead University

People's Recovery

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Rejects Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines | Democracy Now!

Class Struggle Built the Welfare State

Greene Report recommendations will devastate Newfoundland and Labrador communities | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Public Money, Public Code | Campaign and Code

Dortmund relies on Free Software – This paves the way for Public Money? Public Code! - FSFE

It’s time to end oppression and respect workers’ civil liberties | ITF Global

Unifor statement on May 1 - International Workers’ Day | Unifor National

What Are the Origins of May Day?

MSJ: Not much to celebrate for May Day 2021

Companies Providing Scab Labour to Saskatchewan Refinery Won’t Say If They Spent Emergency Wage Subsidies on Scabs

EXCLUSIVE U.S. Labor Secretary says most gig workers should be classified as employees | Reuters

The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere — ProPublica

Port of Montreal: The Employers’ Association leaves the bargaining table | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Uber pitches new provincial rules to keep gig workers as contractors — as workers’ resistance ramps up | The Star

Canada Pension Plan must scrap water privatization deal | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Unifor stands in solidarity with the dock workers at the Port of Montreal, members of CUPE 375 | Unifor National

Laurentian University Is A Casualty Of The Neoliberal Assault On Higher Education - Passage

India's Covid crisis is mostly Modi's fault - Asia Times

Post-Keynesianism: the principles – Michael Roberts Blog

EFF Sues Proctorio on Behalf of Student It Falsely Accused of Copyright Infringement to Get Critical Tweets Taken Down | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Football: a people’s sport? – Michael Roberts Blog

A Bit of Hope That Doesn’t Come from Miami: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2021)

Pentagon Adds Africa to Global Battleground with China and Russia

Another false start in Africa sold with green revolution myths

The Day of Mourning is April 28. The time for paid sick… | The Monitor

Ecuador Election: From Rafael Correa to Guillermo Lasso via Lenin Moreno - The Bullet

Derek Chauvin Found Guilty of Murdering George Floyd

How Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers — ProPublica

Stephen Lewis is fighting for his life | TVO.org

The European Super League Is the Inevitable Conclusion of Football Capitalism

The Bigger Short: Wall Street’s Cooked Books Fueled the Financial Crisis in 2008. It's Happening Again.

A People’s Public Transport Policy - The Bullet

How New Labour Turned Its Back on the Mass Membership Party

Biden isn't ending the Afghanistan War, he's privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain | The Grayzone

Michael Hudson: America’s neoliberal financialization policy vs. China’s industrial socialism

Why Xinjiang is emerging as the epicenter of the US Cold War on China : Peoples Dispatch

The roaring twenties repeated? – Michael Roberts Blog

Canadians could pay a steep price for wooing Sanofi vaccine plant - iPolitics

Striking Charter workers build ISP where “profits are returned to users” | Ars Technica

IMF and debt: a new consensus? – Michael Roberts Blog

Canada Has Failed To Guarantee Abortion Access For All

Breaking down basic income

The Fight to Organize Amazon Is Just Getting Started

From Neoliberalism to the New Finance Capital - The Bullet

Support the Tropes — FAIR

Victory for municipal broadband as Wash. state lawmakers end restrictions | Ars Technica

Zambia Is the Tip of the Tail of the Global Dog: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2021)

Canada’s duty to consult: A legal veneer for colonialism?

Capitalism’s Covid Recovery Will Deepen Social Inequality

Capitalists Have Never Been Friends of Democracy

A New Union of Musicians Is Taking on Spotify

School custodian refuses to download phone app that monitors location, says it got her fired | CBC News

Ecuador shuns socialism with Lasso's surprise election | Reuters

How Cuba Beat the Pandemic: From Developing New Vaccines to Sending Doctors Overseas to Help Others | Democracy Now!

Does Canada’s unilateral sanctions regime violate international law?

From Posting to Politics

Financial fiction part two: the new ones (SPACs, NFTs, cryptocurrencies) – Michael Roberts Blog

Media Has Ignored The Anti-Vax Movement’s White Supremacist Roots

Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy ‹ Literary Hub

Munk, Hayek and the Fraser Institute: Tracing the insurgent pedagogy of the Canadian right

Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics : Peoples Dispatch

The 21st-Century Road to Serfdom Runs Through Silicon Valley

Private Equity and Hedge Funds Survived the 2008 Crisis. Now They’re Making a Killing Off COVID-19.

The Radical Paul Robeson

IMF Calls for Taxing World's Richest to Curb Inequality, Stave Off Social Unrest

Pentagon campaign to recruit Vietnam as military ally against China exposed delusions of US war strategy | The Grayzone

Assimilation and Empire — Qiao Collective

Grassroots Resolutions and Party Democracy: The 2021 NDP Convention - The Bullet

Why Canada should leave NATO

The Broken Front Line — ProPublica

Calls to establish a regionally adjusted federal minimum wage are dangerously misguided | Economic Policy Institute

Killer Prince | Tariq Ali

'We will protest for as long as possible'

Time to put the spotlight on corporate taxes | MR Online

Lenin Moreno and the CIA against Andres Arauz | MR Online

The Vaccine Must Be a Common Good for Humanity: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2021)

Bolivia’s Coup Plotters Will Finally Face Court for Their Campaign of Terror

The Self-Determination Act Could Finally End US Colonization of Puerto Rico

An Unannounced Rupture in Venezuelan Politics - CounterPunch.org

Document: Amazon Twitter Army Handpicked for “Sense of Humor”

Biden unveils 'once-in-a generation' $2tn infrastructure investment plan | Joe Biden | The Guardian

Hong Kong democracy leaders found guilty over peaceful 2019 protest | Hong Kong | The Guardian

We Obtained New FBI Documents on How and Why Fred Hampton Was Murdered

Monthly Review | Repairing the Soil Carbon Rift: Enhancing Agriculture and Environment

Noam Chomsky: Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Largely Indistinguishable From Trump’s

More on Open-Source Versus Patent Monopoly Financing of Drug Development - Center for Economic and Policy Research

Worldwide, union leaders grapple with members backing right-wing ‘populists’ – People's World

“Poor rich Haiti” or how imperialists and local oligarchy have sought to destroy agriculture in Haiti : Peoples Dispatch

The Complex Legacy of China’s Cinematic Pirates

Despite U.S. dirty tricks, Bolivia is finding a way to stay independent | MR Online

The Boat Stuck in the Suez Canal Shut Down Global Commerce. So Could Organized Workers.

A Labour code for the 21st century, by Alain Supiot

Cuba Libre to be COVID-Libre: Five Vaccines and Counting… - CounterPunch.org

Land grabs for rare earth metals continue outside the South American Lithium Triangle – Canadian Dimension

The greatest debt crisis in history is upon us | openDemocracy

Palestinian national liberation: Beyond one versus two states

Suez canal: Ever Given container ship freed after a week | The Guardian

French Farmers protest fertilizer tax – People's World

How the Pandemic Is Creating New Urban Wastelands

How France Continues to Dominate its Former Colonies in Africa

Garment Workers Win Historic Victory in Effort to Transform the Fashion Industry | Portside

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Coup or no coup, Myanmar isn’t moving into U.S. orbit

Venezuelan Oil and Natural Gas Production Cut Down After Pipeline Explosion | Venezuelanalysis.com

Venezuela Welcomes UN Resolution Calling to Eliminate Sanctions | Venezuelanalysis.com

Walmart’s Company Town of Bentonville, Arkansas

Amazon plays dirty in Bessemer Union Drive: Mass solidarity needed

Troops open fire at funeral as Myanmar mourns bloodiest day since coup | Myanmar | The Guardian

Dystopia Prime: Amazon subjects its drivers to biometric surveillance | Deep Links

Sea Watch 3 refugee rescue ship detained in Italy again for ‘saving too many lives’ – People's World

Fuck Mindfulness Workshops – Spectre Journal

Asylum-Seekers Expelled by Biden Administration Feel Deceived

The Left Must Appeal to a Middle Class Squeezed by Capitalism

To Western Media, Prosecuting Bolivian Coup Leaders Is Worse Than Leading a Coup — FAIR

Trudeau Has Failed To Deliver Promised Civil Liberty Reforms

On 10th Anniversary of the U.S.-NATO attack on Libya: Powerful perpetrators have yet to face justice | MR Online

Italy’s Amazon Strike Shows How Workers Across the Supply Chain Can Unite

Some Younger Amazon Workers Still Undecided on Union

The War of Hunger is Taking Over From the War of Guns...and All Syrians are the Victims - CounterPunch.org

10 Years Ago, NATO Intervened in Libya — And Created a Complete Disaster

The High Price of Speaking Out in Egypt Under Sisi, Washington’s Favorite Dictator

The sugar rush economy – Michael Roberts Blog

Union workers at Calgary Coca-Cola plant walk off the job

Ten years on, Syria is almost destroyed. Who’s to blame?

Only Two NYPD Officers Face Serious Discipline From a Watchdog’s Investigations Into Abuse of Black Lives Matter Protesters — ProPublica

Anger mounts as police cover for Atlanta murderer of Asian women – People's World

US and China publicly rebuke each other in first major talks of Biden era | The Guardian

The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt

France’s Alternative to Gentrification

Opinion: The caring economy is the chokepoint of recovery: What’s the plan to value the people we know are essential to our well-being?

The Paris Commune at 150

The Paris Commune Is Still a Beacon for Radical Change

Ontario let a ‘flood’ of temp agencies into long-term care during COVID-19. How precarious work put residents and caregivers at risk | The Star

The Paris Commune of 1871: Why it still matters

Paris Commune 150: the economics – Michael Roberts Blog

There Are So Many Lessons to Learn from Kerala: The Eleventh Newsletter (2021).

Most cases of femicide are committed by partners or ex-partners: Report

Groups line up to fight Manitoba's proposed anti-protest law - Winnipeg Free Press

Employment status is the only fair future for gig workers

Wealth taxes would generate far more revenue than previously estimated: CCPA report | Ricochet

Vive la Commune? The working-class insurrection that shook the world | Paris | The Guardian

Vijay Prashad Warns Biden Is “Doubling Down” on Trump’s Anti-China Cold War Policy | Democracy Now!

Why Boris Loves the Bomb

The watchdogs of imperialism and the Uyghur genocide slander | MR Online

Doug Ford’s ‘Director Of Pandemic Response’ Was a Private Health Lobbyist For Shoppers Drug Mart

Diversity of Freelance Work through Arts Festival - Canadian Freelance Union

New report argues for widespread union-like protections to help Canada’s economic recovery | The Star

Uber launches new union-busting offensive in Canada

Biden's retaliatory cyberattacks against Russia are folly – Responsible Statecraft

Venezuela Assigns Land for Food Production on CLAP’s Fifth Anniversary

'They are killing me': Woman dies after posting video saying hospital ignored her pleas | Montreal Gazette

Uber Canada 'benefits' plan aimed at forestalling real change | rabble.ca

Trudeau’s silence on Lula reveals Canada’s hypocrisy – Canadian Dimension

Doug Ford’s racism is risking First Nation lives – Canadian Dimension

Legendary Leftist Filmmaker John Sayles on Matewan, Working-Class History, and Left-Wing Organizing

Monthly Review | Capital, Science, Technology

Mark Carney: value or price? – Michael Roberts Blog

Sarah Everard: Virtual and doorstep vigils held across the UK - BBC News

Breonna Taylor: Protest to mark anniversary of police killing - BBC News

Time to suspend COVID vaccine patents? | Kingston/Frontenac This Week

The foreign policy article the media did not want you to read | Morning Star

The misuses of Gramsci

The year of the pandemic – Michael Roberts Blog

We Are All Living in Rupert Murdoch’s World

Northwest Territories to bump minimum wage to $15.20 starting in September | The Star

Spain declares delivery riders to be staff, in EU first

Open letter: Canada must support global access to COVID-19 vaccines at the WTO | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

UN Rebuke of US Sanctions on Venezuela Met With Stunning Silence — FAIR

Top Pentagon commander requests astronomical sum of money to prepare for war with China

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister’s ‘Mystery Bills’ Are a ‘Dangerous’ Violation of Democratic Standards, Experts Say

Anti-Asian racism never stopped being an outgrowth of U.S. imperialism

France to declassify files on Algerian war | France | The Guardian

Lula Is Back — And He Can Save Brazil From Bolsonaro

Workers in Myanmar Are Launching General Strikes to Resist the Military Coup

Is music’s crypto moment a boon for artists or a symbol of capitalism’s worst impulses? – Canadian Dimension

Republican Theocracy or the End of Neoliberalism? - The Bullet

Report: U.S. preparing cyberattack against Russia over SolarWinds hack

NYT Fails to Examine Its Participation in Brazil’s ‘Biggest Judicial Scandal’ — FAIR

Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After DSA Slate Won Every Seat

The Last Neoliberal

Canada Should Follow Meghan and Harry’s Lead and Ditch the Monarchy for Good

Close Guantánamo: Ex-Prisoner & Torture Survivor Mohamedou Ould Slahi Calls on Biden to Shut Prison | Democracy Now!

“It Was Time to Do More Than Protest”: Activists Admit to 1971 FBI Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO | Democracy Now!

What Does the RCMP Spend on Investigating Missing Indigenous Women? A Tyee Inquiry Remains Unanswered

50 Years Ago Today, Activists Burglarized the FBI and Exposed Its Undemocratic Abuses

Unions say health-care workers still struggling to get enough PPE | CBC News

Pando: Amazon’s union campaign is succeeding where other unions failed

Amazon’s Anti-Union Activities Should All Be Illegal

Thousands of women join Indian farmers' protests against new laws | Reuters

Beyond McFeminism: The Socialist Origins of IWD in Canada - The Bullet

International Women’s Day: A militant celebration

Digital identity scheme shot down by voters over data privacy concerns - SWI swissinfo.ch

China, the Canadian left, and countering state capitalist apologia – Briarpatch Magazine

Forget $15 an Hour — the Minimum Wage Should Be $24

Haiti’s Massive Protests Are a Repudiation of Authoritarianism and US Intervention

Venezuela: From Nationalisation to Privatisation

The Crisis and the Venezuelan Working Class: A Conversation with Pedro Eusse

U.S. to continue using Guaido to rob Venezuelan assets abroad

Rosa Luxemburg at 150: a revolutionary legacy

International Women’s Day: The History of IWD’s Socialist Roots | Teen Vogue

Happy 150th Birthday, Rosa Luxemburg

Biden and Trudeau continue Trump-era aggression against Cuba – Canadian Dimension

20 years after invasion, US proposes a new Afghan government that includes Taliban : Peoples Dispatch

How India’s farmers’ protests could upend the political landscape : Peoples Dispatch

Fighting the Medical Monopoly - The Bullet

Former Bolivian Dictator and Her 2019 Coup d'État Accomplices To Be Prosecuted - CovertAction Magazine

The fight for paid sick days isn’t over

The Internationalism of Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg’s “The Tactics of Revolution”

UK budget: coming out of COVID – Michael Roberts Blog

From the Murder of Berta Cáceres to Dam Disaster in Uttarakhand

The Tide of Feminist Organizing Is Rising in Chile

Placing the Proud Boys on Canada’s Terrorism List Is a Threat to the Left

Ecuador: Indigenous organizations announce national strike

Space neoliberalization agitates the frontiers of Canadian data privacy – Canadian Dimension

Factbox: Iraq's Christian denominations | Reuters

Venezuela's Guaido, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken discuss 'return to democracy' | Reuters

Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton

Venezuelan Banks Roll Out Dollar Accounts and Debit Cards | Venezuelanalysis.com

Monthly Review | The Ideology of Late Imperialism

Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma

Mumia Abu-Jamal, Now in His 40th Year as an Incarcerated Prisoner, Has Covid-19

Emails Confirm Torstar and Postmedia Knew Both Planned Cuts after Big Swap | The Tyee

How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System — ProPublica

What have we learned from the Sidewalk Labs saga? Smart city plans in Toronto | Centre for Free Expression

Solidarity with Farmers of India - The Bullet

Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars | Automotive industry | The Guardian

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption | The Guardian

U.S. State Department accusation of China ‘genocide’ relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue

U.S. exceptionalism surges again. Will it fly?

Thousands of Farmworkers Are Prioritized for the Coronavirus Vaccine - The New York Times

Amid scramble for COVID-19 vaccine, Latin America turns to Russia | Reuters

Exclusive: Biden in no rush to lift Venezuela sanctions, seeks 'serious steps' by Maduro | Reuters

Finland Had a Patent-Free COVID-19 Vaccine Nine Months Ago — But Still Went With Big Pharma

After the Pandemic Slump, What Next? – Spectre Journal

The roots of racism

It’s not too late for Canada to support a temporary waiver of COVID vaccine patents – Canadian Dimension

Where’s Trudeau’s pipeline for water to First Nations? – Canadian Dimension

India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech

FBI, NYPD exposed: Deathbed confession shines new light on assassination of Malcolm X

U.S. bombs Syria and ridiculously claims self defense

The Deal Between Facebook and Australian News Media Won’t Help Journalists

On a $15 Minimum Wage, Democrats Are Shooting Themselves in the Foot — Again

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress”: The revolutionary life of Frederick Douglass

Trudeau Liberals block NDP pharmacare plan in the middle of a pandemic – Canadian Dimension

Canada Goose workers fight for fairness in Winnipeg – Canadian Dimension

Project Opus: Erik Prince and the Failed Plot to Arm a Warlord in Libya

Cuba has assisted almost one third of the world’s population in health care

How Finland beats America on education

Ontario’s hidden institutions – Canadian Dimension

How did a fateful CIA coup—executed 55 years ago this February 24—doom much of sub-Saharan Africa?

Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status | The Guardian

Conservatives Have Given Up On Fighting The Pandemic

Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business — ProPublica

Germany convicts former Assad regime agent in historic Syria torture verdict | World news | The Guardian

The Australian Facebook News Ban Isn’t About Democracy — It’s a Battle Between Two Rival Monopolies

Hunger, again

‘It’s so unfair’: life on the streets of the French town branded as ‘lost to Islam’ | World news | The Guardian

Child slavery lawsuit targets Hershey, Nestlé, Mars and other chocolate giants

Economic justice and the limits of the Charter – Canadian Dimension

Social movements and organizations condemn arrest of 21-year-old Indian climate activist

Emmanuel Macron’s Government Is Mounting a Witch Hunt Against “Islamo-Leftism” in France’s Universities

Deconstructed: The Roots of the Texas Energy Crisis

Canada must stop propping up a repressive and corrupt dictatorship in Haiti – Canadian Dimension

In Our Corona-Capitalist Dystopia, You Can Have Multiple Star Wars Helmets, But No Health Care

Rush Limbaugh Was a Repulsive Demagogue

Rush Limbaugh Spent His Entire Life on the Corporate Dole

Majority of Canadians think royal family 'no longer relevant' | Monarchy | The Guardian

Why We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster — ProPublica

Under Capitalism, “Labor-Saving” Technology Only Adds to Our Workload

Starmer’s Speech Failed, Even On Its Own Terms

After Pork Giant's Cruel Killings Exposed, FBI Pursued Critics

The Postcolonial Autumn

Leading from the front: The role of women in Farmers’ movement

Vulture Funds Plan to Use the Pandemic to Pillage the Global Economy

Industrial strategy, development, and the need for public production - Citizens' Press

Monthly Review | Manipulations of Freedom

Italy’s “National Unity” Government Is the Cutting Edge of Post-Democratic Governance

Can Europe’s Center Left Survive Another Crisis?

Canada’s Government Has No Problem With Canadians Milking Pandemic Subsidies — As Long as They’re Rich

Preliminary findings of the visit to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights

Scientists on WHO mission to Wuhan accuse media of biased reportage

Texas starts rolling power outages to cope with deep freeze | Reuters

Deflation, inflation or stagflation? – Michael Roberts Blog

The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 3)

The Rise and Fall of French Socialism

The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 2)

Laurentian University can cut programs, lay off faculty as part of restructuring, court rules | CTV News

The foreign roots of Haiti’s “Constitutional crisis”

The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 1)

Rest in Red, Karen Lewis

Ecuador: reversing the pandemic slump? – Michael Roberts Blog

The dark side of Canada’s role in Haiti – Canadian Dimension

Canada’s Largest Meatpacking Facility Is on Trial for Endangering Its Workers During the Pandemic

Breaking the Glass Screen – Framing monopoly capitalism in global commodity chains

India needs course correction on Myanmar

Why Opening Restaurants Is Exactly What the Coronavirus Wants Us to Do — ProPublica

Erosion of governance and public funding cause of Laurentian University financial crisis: Minister must provide long-term funding - OCUFA

How Big Tech Is Becoming the Government

Joe Biden’s Steps Toward Ending Saudi Arabia’s War on Yemen Are Tentatively Hopeful

Class Conflict in the Age of AI: A Changing Urban Landscape

Are We Not All in Search of Tomorrow: The Fifth Newsletter (2021)

After Hundreds of Meatpacking Workers Died From COVID-19, Congress Wants Answers — ProPublica

The mainstream: meeting the historic challenges?

The Right To Die Is Coercive Without Giving Support To Live

What if Canada Post was part of the post-COVID recovery?

Jeff Bezos: Your Legacy Is Exploitation

Italy’s New Technocratic Government Is an Insult to Democracy

'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups

Covid, climate, and ‘dual metabolic rupture’

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tells why we can’t just ‘forgive and forget’

Two Radical Proposals for ‘Getting to Zero’ | The Tyee

We’ve had almost 70 years to fix the problems with Line 5 and very little has happened – what now? - Alberta Politics

New Brunswick should be improving wages and working conditions

Alberta’s United Conservative Party Has Seized Control of Its Public-Sector Pension Funds

New NAPE campaign aims to promote importance of public sector heading into election | CBC News

Who is an essential worker in the GTA? Millions of us, data shows. This is life — outside lockdown — in five graphs | The Star

The Mutiny of the Mini-Capitalists

MR Online | The pendulum of internet censorship swings leftward again

Laurentian University filing for court protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act #onpse

Why Instacart Is Laying Off Workers as Deliveries Soar | WIRED

Guaranteed basic income in B.C. not the best way to a more just society, expert panel finds | CBC News

The Government Donald Trump Left Behind — ProPublica

CUPW Statement – Death of a Postal Worker in Toronto

Far-right extremists who emboldened Quebec City mosque shooter still thrive today | National Observer

“If you don’t fight,you’ll never win” – Richard Burgon exclusive. #FightBack2021 – Labour Outlook

Indirect Deaths: The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars

The US’s idea of diplomacy with Ecuador is a multibillion-dollar loan trap

Inquiry needed into govts’ Covid-19 failures – Asia Times

Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South

Unconscionable treatment continues in Canadian detention centres – Canadian Dimension

Biden makes it official: No Keystone XL oil pipeline – People's World

Nothing to learn from East Asia?

Covid and fictitious capital – Michael Roberts Blog

Corporate Media’s Leaked Chinese Documents Confirm China Didn’t Hide Covid-19 — FAIR

Covid and me: 10 days on life support | Free to read | Financial Times

Global Right-Wing Extremism Networks Are Growing. The U.S. Is Just Now Catching Up. — ProPublica

The politics of vaccines

Mary-Jo NADEAU Obituary (2021) - Toronto Star

Electric commercial van production coming to CAMI Assembly if GM deal ratified | Unifor National

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Court orders Ontario government to pay family of late Sudbury mine worker $2M in damages | CBC News

RCMP launch criminal probe into COVID-19 death tied to massive Alberta meat plant outbreak | CBC News

Members of Several Well-Known Hate Groups Identified at Capitol Riot — ProPublica

Ripley’s Aquarium workers believe in Unifor | Unifor National

UE Condemns Political Violence in DC | UE

Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready. — ProPublica

India’s historic farmers movement

Trump Unleashes Mob to Disrupt U.S. Government

MR Online | The Geo-politics of EU-China Investment deal

Republican Elites Are Responsible for Today’s Storming of the Capitol

The Insurrection Was Predictable

Federation of Labour President Cites ‘Lack of Transparency, Rushed Timeline’ Among Reasons for Resignation from Economic Recovery Team | VOCM

When will publicly funded and provided midwifery come to Yukon? | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Julian Assange cannot be extradited to US, British judge rules | The Guardian

Workers at Google parent company Alphabet announce a union - Axios

The Contagion of Capital: Financialized Capitalism, COVID-19, and the Great Divide

MR Online | Colonial injustice: the pardoning of the Blackwater killers

Military Veterans to Legal Experts Condemn Trump’s Pardoning of Blackwater War Criminals - CounterPunch.org

Failure to protect essential prisoner workers undermines public safety – Canadian Dimension

The Golden Cushion | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Building a more open video conferencing and smart TV alternative - Citizens' Press

Surveillance Self-Defense and Security Education: Year in Review 2020 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

I Sued Blackwater for the Massacre of Iraqi Civilians. Trump Just Pardoned Those Convicted Killers.

Leo Panitch Was a Mentor for a New Generation of Socialists

The White Helmets fraud in Syria

Books in the year of the COVID – Michael Roberts Blog

Editorial Why solidarity with Palestine matters so much this Christmas | Morning Star

The CASE Act Is Just the Beginning of the Next Copyright Battle | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Covid-19 catch-22: Regime-change policies come packed with US pandemic relief | The Grayzone

No right to read: Profiteering corporations creep into prison libraries – People's World

Trump pardons Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraq civilians | The Guardian

Thank Socialism for the Vaccine. Blame Capitalism for Its Distribution.

Nationwide farmers struggle intensifies, gets ready for the long haul

Powerful Cellphone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity

Against the witch-hunt | Morning Star

How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men — ProPublica

Looking Beyond The Abolition Of Restaurants

Billionaire Space Colonialism Is a Dead End

There’s No Solution to Big Tech Without Public Ownership of Tech Companies

CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Massacred Children Inside Religious Schools in Campaign of Terror | Democracy Now!

The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads

Mourning the loss of the great Leo Panitch | Ursula Huws's Blog

The Radical Ferment of Winnipeg's Jewish Socialist Politics - Leo Panitch on RAI (1/4)

Thousands of workers got COVID-19 on the job. But the Ministry of Labour has fined just one employer | The Star

Communists hail ‘historic’ victory in Kerala local elections | Morning Star

Higgs government blunts opposition abortion motion, removes references to Clinic 554 | CBC News

It’s Time To Renationalize And Rethink Air Canada

Canada Is Robbing The Global South Of A Pandemic Recovery

Don’t Break Up Facebook — Make It a Public Utility

MR Online | Does automation spell the end of capitalism?

MR Online | U.S. Embassy caught scrubbing Tweets urging Venezuelans not to vote

European Commission’s Proposed Digital Services Act Got Several Things Right, But Improvements Are Necessary to Put Users in Control | Electronic Frontier Foundation

CPI State secretary arrested for holding dharna against farm laws - The Hindu

COVID-19: the winter wave and the death toll

Hundreds riot at iPhone factory in India over exploitation claims | South China Morning Post

AOC Cooking show captures perfect recipe to make politics palatable

The Intercept Announces Principles for Freelancers | NWU

Resisting the far-right is in the DNA of the trade union movement – LabourList

U of O students hold sit-in, demand action on on-campus racism | CBC News

National Student Loan Service Centre plagued by delays as requests for help soar | Times Colonist

How to Fix Economic Inequality? An Overview of Policies for the United States and Other High-Income Economies

Editorial Venezuela elections: socialist victory buys the revolution breathing space | Morning Star

Monthly Review | The Return of Nature and Marx’s Ecology

Canada’s support for Big Pharma hindering international pandemic response

The Elephant in the Room | Asbjørn Wahl | Monthly Review

David Attenborough talks climate crisis with Greta Thunberg - DN.SE

The top 1% of households own 43% of global wealth, 10% owns 81%, while the bottom 50% have just 1%. – Michael Roberts Blog

Jeremy Corbyn: Why Is There Always Money for War but Not Public Services?

Montreal students left in limbo, with thousands of dollars on the line, after private college suspends classes | CBC News

Amazon allegedly hired investigators to spy on warehouse strike, Spanish union reports | Morning Star

Alberta said it was removing 'under-utilized' parks from its system. This data suggests otherwise | CBC News

MR Online | New Laws of Robotics with Frank Pasquale

A credit crash ahead? – Michael Roberts Blog

Neoliberalism is killing Manitobans

Labour’s Continuing Corbyn “Antisemitism” Saga - CounterPunch.org

Explaining Our Morbid Political Symptoms

Labour Must Make the Case for Public Spending

Venezuelan Government Privatises State-run AgroPatria | Venezuelanalysis.com

Parliamentary Elections in Venezuela: All You Need to Know | Venezuelanalysis.com

When Canada was a world leader in vaccine research and production | The Star

Trump's Worst Crime Must Not be Forgotten - CounterPunch.org

Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as "Feeding the World" - CounterPunch.org

France bans citizens from filming and identifying violent police officers – People's World

Editorial: We can’t compromise with a right that seeks to permanently smash the Labour left | Morning Star

Vote No. 23 is the first shot in Erin O’Toole’s war on China – Canadian Dimension

Canadian mining companies and the making of modern Colombia – Canadian Dimension

The Problem With Hashtag Activism

The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left

States With Few Coronavirus Restrictions Are Spreading the Virus Beyond Their Borders — ProPublica

No, This Second Wave Wasn’t Caused By Young Adults | The Tyee

Friedrich Engels Was More Than Second Fiddle to Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels, a Thinker for Today

What Engels Gave To Marx and Marxism

Austerity Is Still a Political Choice

Friedrich Engels at 200

Happy Birthday, Friedrich Engels

'No crying': Venezuelan refugee cited by Kenney says interaction was less dramatic | CBC News

'Authoritarian' culture of fear prevents health-care workers from speaking out | Rabble

Is Coronavirus Incubating a New Student Movement? | Novara Media

Child genius Diego Maradona became the fulfilment of a prophecy | Jonathan Wilson | Football | The Guardian

Maradona, football legend, was a champion of Latin America's left | Reuters

Analysis: Libya's rival forces have stopped shooting, but they're not pulling back | Reuters

Splitting 5 to 4, Supreme Court Backs Religious Challenge to Cuomo’s Virus Shutdown Order - The New York Times

Nurses Are Dealing With Patients Who Think COVID-19’s A Hoax

COVID vaccines: calling the shots – Michael Roberts Blog

Why Privatization Is Wrong | Boston Review

Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20 — ProPublica

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network

Keying off Tyee RCMP Revelations, MP Angus Wants an Investigation | The Tyee

Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator. — ProPublica

G20: the debt solution – Michael Roberts Blog

Labour’s Members Are in Revolt Against Keir Starmer

Transgender Day of Remembrance | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Anti-Racism and Unions | Organize uWaterloo

Australian special forces involved in murder of 39 Afghan civilians, war crimes report alleges

Inside the Lives of Immigrant Teens Working Dangerous Night Shifts in Suburban Factories

Open letter from content moderators re: pandemic — Foxglove

Introducing “How to Fix the Internet,” a New Podcast from EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Zoom’s Censorship of Palestinian Events Sparks Outrage | The Intercept

Open Letter to UK Charities

Macron accuses English-language media of 'legitimising' violence in France | World news | The Guardian

It’s Time to Abolish the Organization of American States

Covid 2021: more calamity ahead? – Michael Roberts Blog

Scientists say net zero by 2050 is too late | Green Left

Monthly Review | The Commodification of Online Cooperation

‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Says an Internal RCMP Presentation. Inside the Force’s Web Spying Program | The Tyee

Rapid Testing Is Less Accurate Than the Government Wants to Admit — ProPublica

COVID-19 drug and vaccine patents are putting profit before people | The Conversation

Squad, Progressive Democrats Are Bigger Than Ever

COVID-19 is out of control and Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government looks like a deer in the headlights

Dominion workers in Newfoundland ratify contract | Unifor National

The Enraging Deja Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave — ProPublica

MSF Access Campaign | Médecins Sans Frontières

Trump Won Florida After Running a False Ad Tying Biden to Venezuelan Socialists — ProPublica

Noam Chomsky On The Jeremy Corbyn Controversy - OpEd - Eurasia Review

Revera's information on Maples care home 'less than accurate' during weekend crisis: WRHA | CBC News

Evo Morales re-enters Bolivia after a year in exile | Reuters

The Denialist Playbook - Scientific American

Taking advantage of workers must not be the future of work | The Star

Unifor members at General Motors ratify new collective agreement | Unifor National

How to Identify Visible (and Invisible) Surveillance at Protests

US election: women, the young, the working class, the cities and ethnic minorities get rid of Trump – Michael Roberts Blog

CNN PROJECTION: JOE BIDEN WINS THE PRESIDENCY

2020 ontario budget for post secondary education tories continue undermining the system | Graham Cox | Citizens' Press

Socialist Minds: Michael Roberts on a Socialist Alternative to MMT Nov 2020 - YouTube

Future health of Ontario universities uncertain as government refuses to change course on funding - OCUFA

Canada Christian College should be denied university status - OCUFA

The University of Miami claims they didn’t use facial recognition to intimidate student protesters. We have proof they’re lying. | by Fight for the Future | Oct, 2020 | Medium

GM deal with Unifor would see pickup truck assembly come back to Oshawa plant | CBC News

Robocalls Told at Least 800,000 Swing State Residents to “Stay Home” on Election Day. The FBI Is Investigating. — ProPublica

The US economy – some facts – Michael Roberts Blog

US case against Venezuela's oil minister hits another snag | AP

Former FARC guerrillas march in Colombia to demand end to killings | Reuters

Israeli settlers pray for Trump re-election at biblical tomb | Reuters

Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose | The New Yorker

Robert Fisk: Celebrated Middle East correspondent of The Independent dies aged 74 | The Independent

Trump, Venezuela and the Tug-of-War Over a Strongman - The New York Times

Bidenomics: boom or bust? – Michael Roberts Blog

How a Venezuela coup attempt, plotted in Miami, unraveled | Miami Herald

My Resignation From The Intercept - Greenwald

Workers Keeping Americans Fed Are Going Hungry in the Heartland

Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Open Access | Electronic Frontier Foundation

International Student Issues Series | Organize uWaterloo

OCUFA opposes Ontario government circumventing democracy and public debate on Bill 168 - OCUFA

West Bank Palestinians' olive trees burn as U.N. urges protection for harvest | Reuters

F-35 Sale To UAE Reportedly Clears Major Step, But Congressional Approval Needed | Investor's Business Daily

There May Be No Choice but to Nationalize Oil and Gas—and Renewables, Too | New Labor Forum

Ford’s adoption of IHRA definition of antisemitism is a blow to democracy and anti-racism

Knife attacker in Nice kills three people | World news | The Guardian

N.L. union head ‘disgusted’ after she says police threatened to arrest workers | The Star

Ahead of U.S. election, Trump ends a U.S. restriction applying to Israeli settlements | Reuters

North York industrial bakery used temp agencies to make millions in false tax deductions, Canada Revenue Agency says | The Star

Free Cihan Erdal | CUPE

Jewish Group Shocked at Ontario Government’s Anti-Democratic Move to Ram Through Flawed IHRA Antisemitism Definition – Independent Jewish Voices Canada

Muslim backlash against Macron gathers pace after police raids | World news | The Guardian

Social media's erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future

One Year after the Lebanese Protests - CounterPunch.org

Erdogan urges Turks to boycott French goods | Reuters

Pakistan's PM takes aim at Macron; asks Facebook to ban Islamophobic content | Reuters

Insulting Muslims is an abuse of free speech, Iran's Zarif says | Reuters

Celebrations as Chile votes by huge majority to scrap Pinochet-era constitution | World news | The Guardian

Anger spreads in Islamic world after Macron's backing for Muhammad cartoons | France | The Guardian

As standoff at ‘1492 Land Back Lane’ heats up in Caledonia, land defenders say, ‘This is a moment for our people to say no’ | TheSpec.com

Social housing: It’s been done before and we’ll do it better next time

Chile: Approval for A New Constitution Wins Massive Mandate | News | teleSUR English

Cuba Responds to Pandemic, Blockade and New Economic Troubles - CounterPunch.org

US: Religious data platform ′targets mentally ill, vulnerable people′ | Americas| North and South American news impacting on Europe | DW | 27.09.2020

UWaterloo TA Wages - #WhyNotWaterloo? | Organize uWaterloo

Sudan and Israel agree US-brokered deal on normalising relations | World news | The Guardian

Libya's rival forces sign permanent ceasefire at UN-sponsored talks | World news | The Guardian

Pro-Sisi party set to lock in control as Egypt heads to polls | Reuters

Cuba says U.S. trade embargo cost more than $5 billion last year | Reuters

Belgium dusts off 1666 charter for post-Brexit fishing rights | Reuters

Venezuela's Maduro, citing Pope, asks congress to consider same-sex marriage | Reuters

An Oil Company Was Angry Police Would Not Stop Picketing Workers. The CEO Claims Scott Moe’s People Offered to Help.

Talk vs. action: Doug Ford’s inadequate response to the second wave of COVID-19 - Behind the Numbers

Pennsylvania’s New Vote-by-Mail Law Expands Access for Everyone Except the Poor — ProPublica

Sudanese police fire tear gas to disperse hundreds gathered across the capital | Reuters

Israeli delegation travels to Sudan to discuss normalisation - Israeli radio Kan | Reuters

Bolivians Return Evo Morales’s Party to Power One Year After Coup

Hunger-striking Palestinian close to death, family says | World news | The Guardian

U.S. Diplomats and Spies Battle Trump Administration Over Suspected Attacks - The New York Times

How the IMF and World Bank Turned a Pandemic into a Public Relations Stunt - FPIF

As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place - The New York Times

It’s Not Enough to Fight — Labor and the Left Have to Be Serious About How to Win

Evo Morales’s Party’s Massive Victory Is a Rebuke to US Elites Who Hailed the Coup

The IMF smokescreen – Michael Roberts Blog

Senior PLO official Erekat taken to Israeli hospital after COVID-19 condition worsens | Reuters

Landslide Victory for New Zealand Labour | Reutets

Labour wins landslide victory in New Zealand election

How Unions Can Lay the Ground for the Next Upsurge | Labor Notes

A spin class became a superspreader event. Why are fitness instructors excluded from workers’ compensation if they fall ill on the job? | The Star

Dual Israeli/US citizens rally for Trump | Reuters

Dual Israeli/US citizens rally for Trump | Reuters

Unifor creates Racial Justice Advocate program in historic deal with Ford | Unifor National

Union leader labels Manitoba Tories vengeful for bill that he says undercuts workers' rights | CBC News

Using AI, Canadian city predicts who might become homeless | Reuters

Neo-Nazi leaders of Greece's Golden Dawn sentenced to 13 years

Debt disaster with no escape – Michael Roberts Blog

Fresh Azerbaijani shelling shatters peace after fragile ceasefire agreed

Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to ceasefire

Lebanon's Hezbollah: negotiating over border does not mean peace with Israel | Reuters

As Bolivia election nears, could 'Evonomics' make a comeback? | Reuters

Ontario judges side with union regarding Nemak plant planned closure in Windsor | Windsor Star

A lot of Jason Kenney's claims about the oil and gas industry are cherry-picked, misleading or wrong | CBC News

Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of rocket attack

Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of rocket attack

Work or toil in the pandemic – Michael Roberts Blog

Pope tackles Covid pandemic and rising nationalism in third encyclical

Syrian recruit describes role of foreign fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh

How It Feels When Software Watches You Take Tests - The New York Times

The Pandemic Is No Excuse for Colleges to Surveil Students - The Atlantic

NYTimes: Politically Connected N.Y. Union Boss Is Accused of ‘Shocking’ Corruption

How Ecuador’s Democracy is Being Suffocated - CounterPunch.org

Canada does not need more warplanes – Canadian Dimension

Time to free Canada’s long-term care system from its backward history – Canadian Dimension

Assange Case: Government “Hacking” Charges Are Weak

A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair

Nagorno-Karabakh: at least three Syrian fighters killed

Trade unions urge EU to investigate Amazon effort to spy on workers | Technology | The Guardian

Free CUPE member Cihan Erdal! - CUPE Ontario

Fundraiser by Chantal Chartrand : #JusticepourJoyce #JusticeforJoyce

The Grayzone's Aaron Maté testifies at UN on OPCW Syria cover-up | The Grayzone

CUPE calls for release and safe return of Cihan Erdal | Canadian Union of Public Employees

Syrian rebel fighters prepare to deploy to Azerbaijan in sign of Turkey’s ambition | World news | The Guardian

Trump's reported tax methods would be par for the course for the rich, experts say | Reuters

Ontario to recruit 3,700 more health workers to counter second wave of coronavirus | CP24.com

Threat to evacuate U.S. diplomats from Iraq raises fear of war | Reuters

Racial wealth gaps little changed since 2016

Students Are Pushing Back Against Proctoring Surveillance Apps | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Political Trials and Electoral Bans: The Battle for Democracy in Ecuador | Common Dreams Views

Security evicts reproductive rights occupation outside New Brunswick Legislature – NB Media Co-op

One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone

NYTimes: To Conservatives, Barrett Has ‘Perfect Combination’ of Attributes for Supreme Court

Zoom cancels panel featuring Leila Khaled amid protests from pro-Israel groups – Mondoweiss

Trump attacks China over Covid 'plague' as Xi urges collaboration in virus fight | World news | The Guardian

'Our 1945 moment': UN faces fears of a 'great fracture' at general assembly | United Nations | The Guardian

Law Firms Pay Supreme Court Clerks $400,000 Bonuses. What Are They Buying? - The New York Times

Global banks defy U.S. crackdowns by serving oligarchs, criminals and terrorists - ICIJ

Leaks show Chelsea owner Abramovich funded Israeli settler group | World news | The Guardian

The extradition of Julian Assange would undermine freedom of speech | Julian Assange | The Guardian

MR Online | Grandson of overthrown Chilean President Salvador Allende defends Venezuela against U.S. coup attempt

Low-income students are dropping out of college this fall in alarming numbers - The Washington Post

More on a world rate of profit – Michael Roberts Blog

John Turner, former Canadian prime minister and friend of Princess Margaret, dies at 91 | World news | The Guardian

AP News: California governor signs laws to protect workers from virus

AP News: How Ginsburg's death could reshape the presidential campaign

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies of pancreatic cancer at 87 | CBC News

Silence reigns on the US-backed coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia | Mark Weisbrot | Opinion | The Guardian

Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them. — ProPublica

Men allegedly involved in toppling of Colston statue offered cautions | World news | The Guardian

Poorly Protected Postal Workers Are Catching COVID-19 by the Thousands. It’s One More Threat to Voting by Mail. — ProPublica

Bolivian interim President Anez withdraws from election race with socialists ahead in polls | Reuters

Pandemics: prevention before cure – Michael Roberts Blog

Tourists on Tech's Toll Roads – Purism

War Crime Risk Grows for U.S. Over Saudi Strikes in Yemen - The New York Times

“Without Us, the School Would Fall Apart”

Nurse at ICE Detention Center Turns Covid-19 Whistleblower

ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges 'hysterectomies on immigrant women in US' - BBC News

Breonna Taylor’s Family Receives $12 Million Settlement From Louisville - The New York Times

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration — ProPublica

Socialist economic policies are the answer to the current crises | Citizens' Press

Trade unions need new strategies – Asbjørn Wahl

Jewish extremist who killed Palestinian family sentenced to life | World news | The Guardian

Emails Show the Meatpacking Industry Drafted an Executive Order to Keep Plants Open — ProPublica

Meet Erin O’Toole, Canada’s New Conservative Ghoul | Jacobin

Where Spirituality Meets Protest: Inside the Activism of Black Lives Matter’s Janaya Future Khan | Vogue

Wall Street fundraisers turn into wallflowers during 2020 U.S. election | Reuters

Retirements, layoffs, labor force flight may leave scars on U.S economy | Reuters

Report: Israeli strike kills 10 Iran-backed gunmen in Syria - The Washington Post

Venezuelan media name alleged U.S. spy arrested near refinery complex | Reuters

Israeli government to impose second Covid-19 national lockdown | Israel | The Guardian

EU says 'time is too short' to send observers for Venezuela's December vote | Reuters

Bernie Sanders | Video | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

Sanders Urging Biden to Do More to Excite Progressives - The New York Times

Pakistani journalist arrested for defaming military | Reuters

Venezuela says 'U.S. spy' captured near oil refinery complex | Reuters

Margaret Atwood: ‘If you’re going to speak truth to power, make sure it’s the truth’ | Life and style | The Guardian

Bahrain agrees to normalize ties with Israel

Ex-Salvadoran colonel jailed for 1989 murder of Spanish Jesuits | El Salvador | The Guardian

Afghan government to start peace talks with Taliban | Afghanistan | The Guardian

Greens grow in Europe, but politicians can't take all the credit | Green politics | The Guardian

At a crossroads – Tempest

Court Rules Guantánamo Detainees Are Not Entitled to Due Process - The New York Times

175 Years in a U.S. Prison? Extradition Trial of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Begins in London | Democracy Now!

Why Assange is on trial | Chomsky & Walker

A Militant Union’s Strategic Case for Joe Biden | The Nation

Conflicts since start of US 'war on terror' have displaced 37m people – report | US news | The Guardian

Beloved Peace Activist and Lawyer Kevin Zeese Dies at the Age of 64 | Democracy Now!

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Is Now Linked to More Than 250,000 Coronavirus Cases – Mother Jones

Police shoot 13-year-old boy with autism several times after mother calls for help | US news | The Guardian

Colorado school suspends Black boy for playing with toy gun during virtual class | US news | The Guardian