Profits, paycheques and the financialization of Canada’s grocery chains
Photo by Stephen Weppler/Flickr The news that workers at more than a dozen No Frills stores in Ontario could be on strike if wage demands aren’t met is becoming a…
Clement Nocos
Ontario election post-mortem: Strategy shift needed for the progressive left?
On paper, one could argue there were winning odds stacked for the progressive electoral left in Ontario ahead of the 2022 provincial election. Doug Ford as premier of Ontario mishandled…
Varieties of anti-capitalism for a 21st century economic democracy
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century Erik Olin Wright Verso, 2019 A year into a once-in-a-century pandemic that has already killed millions, it has become morbidly clear…
The Jakarta Method: How to destabilize and control the Third World
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins Public Affairs, 2020 Today, the “First World” typically refers to imagined “Western” countries…
Joe Biden: An Unremarkable Man
Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden Branko Marcetic Verso, 2020 Joe Biden had been a United States Senator for more than three-and-a-half decades until his selection as Barack Obama’s…
Insurgent diaspora against empire
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent Priyamvada Gopal Verso, 2019 In the waves of anticolonial rebellion throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, opposition from within the centres of…
The underdog roots of Jagmeet Singh
Love & Courage: My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected Jagmeet Singh Simon & Schuster, 2019 Jagmeet Singh has always been the underdog and he thrives on it.…
Seizing the means of (data) production
The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski Verso, 2019 Unpredictability, economic unpredictability in particular, means that…