We are unstoppable; another world is possible
From time immemorial, youth have provided the catalytic energy and risk-taking behaviour for any social movement worth its name. When triggering events occur for the movement, it is invariably young…
Social Movements
Revolting Youth
Marching to the Music of Youth Radicals, unlike reactionaries, value youth. An American revolutionary who came out of the tradition of the Industrial Workers of the World, James P. Cannon,…
The Right-Left Alliance between Egypt and Argentina
Once again world public opinion faces a most bizarre political event: an alliance between political forces on the extreme Right and the Left, including collaboration between NATO regimes and Marxist…
Is the NDP becoming Liberal Lite?
A couple of polls showing the NDP losing support to the Liberals pose some pretty fundamental questions for the party and its small ‘l’ liberal leader Thomas Mulcair. Does the…
Illustrative Action
Illustrate! Educate! Organize! Graphic novels are fast becoming a popular and accessible tool of activism in the 21st century. Indeed, a great number of overtly political graphic works have been…
Major victory for Quebec students, environmental activists
Their demonstrations have shaken Quebec in recent months, and yesterday students and environmentalists won major victories. At her first news conference as premier, Pauline Marois announced that her Parti Québécois…
The Black Bloc Doth Protest Too Much
Occupy Tactics: Violence and Legitimacy in the Occupy Movement and Beyond from brandon jourdan on Vimeo. It finally happened. After months of anarchists howling over journalist Chris Hedges’s controversial article…
Occupy Wall Street 1 Year Later: A Roundtable Discussion
Democracy Now host Amy Goodman hosts a roundtable discussion of Occupy Wall Street movement on its 1 year anniversary with the following experts: Frances Fox Piven, an author and professor…
Class Struggle in Present Day Globalized Capitalism
Numerous books and professional articles have been written about class – inequalities, culture, internal differentiation (gender, ethnicity etc.). Labour specialists have discussed strikes, protests and collective bargaining. Few if any…
Québec: From Student Strike to Social Upsurge
By passing Bill 78, a law designed to curb freedom of assembly and the right to strike, Premier Jean Charest expected to quell the three-month-old Québec student strike against tuition…
The Birth of Medicare
Medicare was born in Saskatchewan on July 1, 1962. It would be the first government-controlled, universal, comprehensive single-payer medical insurance plan in North America. It was a difficult birth. The…
Why the silence on Ottawa’s role in the Quebec student strike?
The following article draws attention to an important issue that has been largely overlooked in the Quebec student strike. The author, Pierre Graveline, is a well-known journalist, editor and publisher,…
Ideas to Work With
David Harvey addressed a crowd in the heart of London’s financial district early in November 2011. “We need to mobilize in such a way that we can genuinely threaten major…
Uneconomic Growth
The idea that economic growth can not continue indefinitely, or even for more than a few generations, is as old as economics itself. The classical economists — Smith, Ricardo and,…
Growing Alarm
Growth, conventionally defined as the ever increasing flow of goods and services on the market, is a mantra that continues to be embraced by nearly the entire political spectrum, even…