Economics as Lingua Franca of the Left. Economy • July 15, 2026 • Ingo Schmidt. Leftists struggle with economic issues. In a ...

Bryan Palmer is the author of three volume history of Canada, Capitalism, and Colonialism! Bryan D. Palmer is Professor Emeritus, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. 0:00 Introductions and ...

We write as a concerned group of 412 Canadians, including academics, lawyers, former and retired ambassadors (including to the United Nations), ministers and public servants, UN human rights experts, ...

Given that the immanent drive and constant tendency of capital is to atomize the working class, what are the effects of this tendency? For the atomized worker, all other workers are competitors; all ...

The following is an excerpt from Peter Ives’ book Rethinking Free Speech, Fernwood Publishing, 2024. Also check out this video interview with Peter Ives. The analogy that free speech acts as a ...

Why is Saudi Arabia, a Sunni absolute monarchy, enthusiastically supported by the West, considered a global promoter of ‘democracy’? This question is rarely asked. The apparent mismatch between ...

Excerpted and adapted from Health and Health Care Inequities: A Critical Political Economy Perspective (Chapter 6), Fernwood Publishing, 2025. See video of booklaunch in Toronto. Drawing inspiration ...

Until the astonishing imperialist assault by the United States on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, news related to Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, Saudi Arabia’s attack ...

Global capitalist crisis, impending ecological disaster, and new responses by popular movements in some regions, particularly in Latin America, inspire radical thinking about the need to go “beyond ...

As the United States and Israel launched, starting on February 28, 2026, a new large-scale military aggression against Iran and Lebanon, while continuing the genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian ...

This coming week, the delegates to the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) triennial Convention in Winnipeg will have a vital opportunity to establish a new relationship of fulsome solidarity with the ...

For more than a decade, trade union responses to the unfolding climate and ecological crisis have mainly focused on the idea of “just transition.” This idea has brought much-needed attention to the ...