<html﻿>﻿

﻿<head﻿>﻿<script type="text/javascript" src="https://web-static.archive.org/_static/js/bundle-playback.js?v=2N_sDSC0" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://web-static.archive.org/_static/js/wombat.js?v=txqj7nKC" charset="utf-8"></script>﻿
﻿<script>window.RufflePlayer=window.RufflePlayer||{};window.RufflePlayer.config={"autoplay":"on","unmuteOverlay":"hidden","showSwfDownload":true};</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="﻿https://web-static.archive.org/_static/﻿js/ruffle/ruffle.js"></script>
﻿<script type="text/javascript">
  ﻿  __wm.init(﻿"https://web.archive.org/web"﻿);
  __wm.wombat(﻿"http://www.newsocialist.org/old_mag/magazine/01/article17.html"﻿,﻿"20100626200437"﻿,﻿"https://web.archive.org/"﻿,﻿"web"﻿,﻿"https://web-static.archive.org/_static/"﻿,
	      "﻿1277582677﻿");
</script>
﻿<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://web-static.archive.org/_static/css/banner-styles.css?v=1utQkbB3" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://web-static.archive.org/_static/css/iconochive.css?v=3PDvdIFv" />﻿
﻿<!-- End Wayback Rewrite JS Include -->
﻿

﻿<title﻿>﻿New Socialist Magazine, Fit to Rule? - Article﻿</title>﻿

﻿<meta﻿ ﻿name="description"﻿ ﻿content="New Socialist Group socialism communism  socialists communists "﻿>﻿

﻿<meta﻿ ﻿name="keywords"﻿ ﻿content="socialism, communism, socialists, communists, marx, marxists, marxism, Marx, Marxists, Marxism, Canada, politics, anarchism, Trotsky, trotskyism, NDP, radical, revolution, revolutionary, Lenin, leninism, leninist, Luxemburg, working class, 1917, syndicalism, radicalism, union, labour, anarchy"﻿>﻿

﻿</head>﻿


﻿<body﻿ ﻿topmargin="20"﻿ ﻿leftmargin="20"﻿ ﻿marginheight="20"﻿ ﻿marginwidth="20"﻿ ﻿bgcolor="#FFFFFF"﻿>﻿


﻿<font﻿ ﻿face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"﻿ ﻿size="5"﻿ ﻿color="#000000"﻿>﻿

﻿<center﻿>﻿

﻿<b﻿>﻿Fit to Rule? 

﻿<br﻿>﻿</b>﻿</font>﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿


﻿<font﻿ ﻿face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"﻿ ﻿size="2"﻿ ﻿color="#000000"﻿>﻿

﻿<i﻿>﻿New Socialist Magazine, January 1996﻿</i>﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

﻿</center>﻿


"They're trying to make us out to be a bunch of heavy-handed jerks. But we aren't heavy-handed." Ontario Tory MPP Frank Sheehan on critics of the Harris government. 

﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

Disney Corp. took over the marketing rights for RCMP souvenirs this past June. While media pundits expected a flood of Mickey Mounties, we suggest RCMPig dolls. 

﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

Mulroney Tory bagman John Bitove Senior was ordered by a court to pay the federal government $22.7 million in back rent for the food concession at Toronto's Pearson airport. More suitable punishment would include making him pay airport prices for warmed over turkey salad. Meanwhile, Johnny Junior has negotiated a secret deal with Canada Post to get land to build a stadium for his Toronto Raptors. Taxpayers will wait years to see if they'll end up on the hook for the bill, like Skydome. And don't the Bitoves also serve lousy overpriced food at Skydome? Is there a pattern here? 

﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

Saudi investors brought in Paul Reichmann to run Canary Wharf, a huge development in London's Docklands that had been run into bankruptcy by ... Paul Reichmann's Olympia and York. 

﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

Last April, Seagram booze billionaires the Bronfmans, spent $5.7 billion to buy up MCA and get into the film business. Don't expect to see a movie on how they started their fortune by bootlegging during Prohibition. 

﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

KMPG consultants noted that Canada's CEOs got raises averaging 18 percent in 1994 while workers got an average raise of one tenth that (1.8 percent). 

﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

Former PM Brian Mulroney was appointed by US agri-business firm Archer-Daniels to investigate if the company had engaged in corruption and price-fixing. 

﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

Remember a year ago when 25,000 lined up in freezing temperatures to fill out an application to work at General Motors? So far, the company hasn't interviewed a single person, or added a single job. 

﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

Brian Tobin, best remembered for ordering the Canadian navy to shoot up a Spanish trawler, now says the best way to save the turbot is to permanently force half the fisheries' workforce to walk the plank. Say goodbye to 10,000 jobs industry wide. 

﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿


﻿<form﻿>﻿<input﻿ ﻿type="button"﻿ ﻿value="Close"﻿ ﻿onclick="top.close()"﻿>﻿</form>﻿


﻿</body>﻿

﻿</html>﻿<!--
     FILE ARCHIVED ON ﻿20:04:37 Jun 26, 2010﻿ AND RETRIEVED FROM THE
     INTERNET ARCHIVE ON ﻿09:26:50 Mar 05, 2026﻿.
     JAVASCRIPT APPENDED BY WAYBACK MACHINE, COPYRIGHT INTERNET ARCHIVE.

     ALL OTHER CONTENT MAY ALSO BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT (17 U.S.C.
     SECTION 108(a)(3)).
-->
<!--
﻿playback timings (ms):
﻿  ﻿captures_list﻿: ﻿2.179﻿
﻿  ﻿exclusion.robots﻿: ﻿0.05﻿
﻿  ﻿exclusion.robots.policy﻿: ﻿0.038﻿
﻿  ﻿esindex﻿: ﻿0.009﻿
﻿  ﻿cdx.remote﻿: ﻿29.885﻿
﻿  ﻿LoadShardBlock﻿: ﻿78.231﻿ (﻿3﻿)
﻿  ﻿PetaboxLoader3.datanode﻿: ﻿88.667﻿ (﻿4﻿)
﻿  ﻿load_resource﻿: ﻿151.5﻿
﻿  ﻿PetaboxLoader3.resolve﻿: ﻿52.727﻿
﻿--�