Along the northern shore of the Great Lakes, across the water from Rochester, Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit, the Canadian manufacturing industry has long been part of the greater industrial archipelago of metal-bending communities—out of which American brand-name equipment, toolmakers, and vehicle companies grew in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Tariffs, kidnappings, blockades, bombings, and constant threats of escalation mark U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term. The reason for the aggression: the U.S. must free itself from exploitation by other countries. According to Trump, the others are enriching themselves at the expense of the U.S. market, NATO partners are leaving the U.S. to shoulder the […]

As Rosenblum writes, an average of 1,000 people were moving to Seattle every week during the city’s tech boom, and developers and big landlords took advantage of this boom by raising rents and gentrifying previously affordable neighborhoods.

Outrage and resistance are growing against a vicious campaign to muzzle political speech and action.

The self-appointed U.S. emperor’s ambitions go well beyond Gaza, as evidenced in his attack on Venezuela and ongoing attempt to take over its riches and his advanced plans to occupy Greenland.

We can hope that social strikes will not be necessary to limit and ultimately end MAGA tyranny.

How lucky were the Liberals when the last federal election season began? Very. Twin perceived threats came to their assistance.

During last year’s harvest period, while international attention was largely focused on Gaza, more than 1,400 settler attacks were documented in the West Bank. Especially notorious are the so-called “Hilltop Youth”—far-right hooligan settlers that have repeatedly attacked Palestinians, destroying homes and uprooting trees.

Ms. Albanese has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations like ‘UN Watch’, which have been waging toxic smear campaigns to silence her and to harm her human rights mandate.

“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021)

The Finns Party leader and current finance minister and deputy prime minister, Riikka Purra, has previously made a litany of racist and violent statements against immigrants (e.g., using the Finnish equivalent of the ‘n-word’) (Teivainen, 2023).

CJPME urges Canada to continue to investigate and punish all connections between Canadian charities and illegal Israeli activity.

On May 2, New York became the first U.S. state to pass a major Green New Deal policy following four years of organizing by the Public Power NY coalition and allies.

In his recent book, The Communist Hypothesis, Alain Badiou describes the past defeats of May 1968, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Paris Commune as well as those of factory occupations and other such struggles as defeats ‘covered with glory’.

The public sector in the U.S. has been shrinking rapidly since the 1990s as a deluge of privatization has, to various degrees, overtaken many so-called public services and institutions.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently found himself in hot water for removing the right to strike from educational workers, imposing terms and conditions of employment on them, and using the Notwithstanding Clause to bar them from asserting their constitutional rights.

Nnimmo Bassey (NB): Simple solutions are avoided in today’s world because they don’t support capital.

In tracking Israel’s arrest of Palestinian children, from the moment these (often) young teens are seized from their homes to the moment they arrive at an interrogation facility, Ha Moked registers a consistent pattern.

The U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) is supposed to have a dual mandate of “maximum employment and price stability.” However, a close look at its policies since 1980 have shown it very willing to sacrifice the former for the latter.

This interview is part of a series with the Blended Finance Project a group of unions, non-governmental organizations and academics who are concerned about the Canadian government’s embrace of what is called “blended finance.”