Greek Lessons: Democracy versus Debt-Bondage
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- Published on Sunday, 26 February 2012 10:29
By David McNally
It is a truism to say that democracy began with the Greeks – less so to say that it originated in popular rebellion against debt and debt-bondage. Yet, with the Greek people ensnared once more in the vice-grip of rich debt-holders, it may be useful to recall that fact. For the only hope today of reclaiming democracy in Greece (and elsewhere) resides in the prospect of a mass uprising against modern debt-bondage that extends the rule of the people into the economic sphere.
Car Culture: A Dead-End Road
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- Published on Friday, 24 February 2012 01:48
Review of Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler, Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (Fernwood/RED, 2011).
By Harold Lavender
Compelling Memoir of a Revolutionary Daughter
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 15:42
Review of Carmen Aguirre, Something Fierce (Vancouver: Douglas & Mcintyre, 2011)
Something Fierce recently won CBC's Canada Reads 2012 contest. It has been long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. It was also nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.
By J. Kavanagh
Syrian Socialists on the Ongoing Struggle Against the Regime
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- Published on Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:50
The popular movement against the Assad regime continues. We are publishing a translation of a statement from the Syrian Revolutionary Left, a group of Marxists inside and outside Syria that in January published the first issue of a monthly newspaper. We hope that this will allow more people who read English to become aware of the revolutionary socialist presence in the struggle in Syria.
"Nobody cared! Nobody helped! Nobody did anything!"
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- Published on Monday, 13 February 2012 01:44
On February 14, demonstrations commemorating hundreds of missing Indigenous women will take place in cities across Canada. In this article, activist Audrey Huntley reflects on the shameful reality of the way in which violence against Indigenous women is normalized in our society, and describes movement-building being spearheaded by organizations and coalitions across Canada, with a focus on the Toronto-based No More Silence -- NSW
By Audrey Huntley