Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley, about to be interviewed by the media, moments after her victory speech in Edmonton yesterday. Below: Three scenes from yesterday’s NDP leadership convention, one of…
Davis Indge By David Indge After attending Thursday nights meeting on the Balme/Ayr pit proposal, it is clear they have a plan, they just do not know how they are…
While it has been fun being the regular writer for the blog, I always knew my tenure was to have been brief. Soon I will revert to merely providing the…
Well it looks as if Stephen Harper has jumped the gun again. For this morning he tweeted this: Thank you to the @CCG_GCC's Gordon Reid and others for the great…
Sweden’s armed forces are hunting for a mystery (i.e. Russian) submarine in waters off Stockholm. “We have begun an intelligence operation … involving ships, helicopters and several ground units,” Commander…
It’s always a relief to know our governments are constantly negotiating free trade deals to make sure no possible bidders are unfairly shut out of public procurement processes. That is,…
Start with an oil spill apologist/minimizer. Work with the twisted logic that since all ships and oil tankers don’t crash all the time, any concern over one that might is…
We’re all taught in life that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The sentiment has been applied to Germany’s renewable energy transition, or Energiewende, with…
So you might think that the reluctant LRB ruling both the transit lockout and the pension bylaw illegal would have provided the Saskatoon civic administration with a great opportunity to…
$1/day is a good start to get there. It’s good for the environment. It reduces commuter stress. It forces governments to increase progressive taxation to cover infrastructure costs. It uses…
Photo from Public Domain It’s an evening like any other. The first item on the Téléjournal is about the controversial Cacouna oil port project. The journalist speaks to citizens in…
I mean what the hell…. we live in religious society. Right? Business operates on principles of being charitable, loving neighbours, etc… I mean that’s why we have an Irving Chapel…
The Subversion of Politics European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life Copyright Georgy Katiaficas 1997,2006
Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms – Ways of Reading Marx’s Theory Ingo Elbe October 21, 2013
Energy Minister Bill Bennett Dear Minister; I know you have heard it all so I guess it is now all about the legacy you and your cabinet colleagues are willing…
Karl Marx’s GrundrisseFoundations of the critique of political economy 150 years later Edited by Marcello Musto With a special foreword by Eric Hobsbawm Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms – Ways…
The Grundrisse as a Research Manuscript Capital in general and many Capitals Michael R. Krätke Marx’ ambition in GrundrisseWritten in 1857/58 – during the first great world crisis (affecting not…
