Reading Time: 5 minutes The only way we can stop the forces of division and hate is to get organized, go grassroots and show up – again and again
Tag: Brexit
Putting 2016 in perspective: from trauma to tragedy
Reading Time: 4 minutes It was truly a Shakespearean year – full of ‘woe, destruction, ruin and decay’ – and it will only get worse next year
CETA good for Europe, and good for us
Reading Time: 3 minutes A collection of labour organizations, environmentalists and other groups oppose CETA by ignoring the economic benefits and concentrating on other factors
Pack journalism and the corresponding need for skepticism
Reading Time: 3 minutes From Brexit to the U.S. presidential election, it’s important to filter what you read in order to reach something approximating the truth
The party’s over: without ideology, we lack leadership
Reading Time: 3 minutes Elections are no longer contests of ideas but rather competing marketing campaigns to see who gets to control the state’s levers of coercion
GOP, British Conservatives lost touch with their base
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a lot easier for the base to get itself a new elite than for the elite to find itself a new base
Punks unite to educate on Brexit’s ramifications
Reading Time: 4 minutes It represents a triumph for the angry old white folks they thought they had beaten back in the bad old days
Canada should build an economic bridge to Germany
Reading Time: 3 minutes Now is the time to build an economic bridge to Germany that will serve as our new economic beachhead to the EU
Putin’s daydreams coming true
Reading Time: 4 minutes The recent British vote on Brexit means the Kremlin’s fantasies about Europe may not be that farfetched
Brexit, Trump symptomatic of a dying status quo
Reading Time: 3 minutes Free-trade deals and globalization will not survive for long in the absence of real social progress