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March 25, 2020 
COVID-19: how do we flatten the curve?
We’re told we need to “flatten the curve” of the pandemic to prevent a health crisis, but how do we do this? We need to…
Jesse McLaren
Analysis
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March 14, 2020
Coronavirus: rights not repression
With the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the new coronavirus a pandemic, it’s urgent that countries around the world escalate public health efforts. These include…
Op-ed
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March 10, 2020
Coronavirus: Paid sick days now
Unfortunately, it’s taken the threat of a global pandemic to highlight the longstanding public health risks of precarious work. Fortunately, there are already movements fighting…
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February 19, 2020
Claudia Jones: Intersectional socialist
Claudia Jones devoted her life to intertwining struggles against anti-Black racism, sexism, capitalism and imperialism—and for this she was incarcerated, deported, and erased from history
Analysis
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February 12, 2020
Coronavirus: vaccinate against racism
The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency over the new coronavirus, which has infected over 40,000 people and killed over 1,000. The…
News
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January 8, 2020
From Iran to Wet’suwet’en: No wars for oil
On Saturday, January 4, hundreds mobilized in opposition to the looming war on Iran. Just three days later, on Janaury 7, hundreds more demonstrated against…
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October 11, 2019
Slaughterhouse five: Fiera Foods, Ford and precarious work
“Worker dies after industrial accident,” reported the media. But an abstract worker did not simply pass away, and this was not a freak accident. The…
Review
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September 28, 2019
The burning case for a Green New Deal
Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate was published in 2014 in the lead up to the massive People’s Climate March. Her latest…
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September 10, 2019
Don’t blame Jagmeet Singh or Quebec for NDP woes
The corporate press is celebrating an NDP collapse and attributing it to Jagmeet Singh and racism in Quebec. This is being echoed by some conservative…
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September 6, 2019
Indigenous socialism: the life and politics of Howard Adams
“We need to liberate ourselves from the courts, ballot boxes, school system, church, and all other agencies that command us to stay in ‘our colonized place.’ This oppression of the native people is so deeply rooted in the capitalist system that it cannot be completely eliminated without eliminating capitalism itself.”
Analysis
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July 1, 2019
Canada Day: A history of colonization and resistance
The history of Canada Day has been one of colonization through different phases, but Indigenous peoples have continued to expose this ongoing history, assert their sovereignty and build solidarity.
Analysis
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June 3, 2019
Decent work and the fight to protect health care
By continuing to build a movement for decent work, uniting unionized and non-unionized workers, we can support the broader social determinants of health and strengthen the full range of health services—from hospitals to home care.