Evo Morales Ayma in Cochabamba, Bolivia in June 4, 2012. Photo by Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS. As of today, Evo Morales, the Indigenous president of Bolivia, was forced to resign the presidency. His Vice President, (Alvaro Garcia Linera) also resigned, as did Adrianna Salvatierra, the President of the Senate, who was
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Canadian Dimension: Open letter: Canada must stop backing Haiti’s repressive and illegitimate president
Protesters rip an electoral poster of president Jovenel Moïse during a demonstration in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 6, 2015. Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters. In recent months, Haitians have demonstrated their overwhelming opposition to President Jovenel Moïse. There have been massive protests and multiple general strikes demanding Moïse leave. We
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: An appeal to Green Party of Canada members
Illustration by Carlos Latuff As Israel’s illegal military occupation approaches a half-century, it’s long past time for concrete international action to pressure its government to reverse course. The Green Party of Canada’s recent vote to support “the use of divestment, boycott and sanctions (BDS) that are targeted at those sectors
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Left’s Responses to the Crisis in Europe and North America
Moderated by Greg Albo, featuring: Leo Panitch is a political economist and theorist based at York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of Socialist Register. His latest book (with co-author Sam Gindin) is The Making of Global Capitalism will be out in the Spring of 2012. Stephanie Ross teaches in the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: CD conversation on the Occupy Movement
Saul Landau: Are we witnessing a new agency of social change? Is the
multitude in OWS the beginning of the replacement for the Working class and its party as the new actor to bring history to its next stage? Or am I dreaming?
Ken Kalturnyk: I think t…
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