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Journalism with movements in the South
When journalists insist the world’s problems, no matter how big or small, are caused by U.S. government interference, grassroots struggles against austerity and authoritarianism fall out of view.
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Doing anti-imperialist journalism while the world marches to war
After Russia invaded Ukraine, anything other than support for sending unlimited weapons to Ukraine was painted as pro-Russian propaganda. What does anti-war journalism look like in a climate of social media harassment and state attacks?
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Disability and war
Across the world, people are disabled in vast numbers by war, occupation, and imperial violence. How can disability justice confront the U.S. and Canadian war machines?
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The myth of Canadian generosity
When Canada boasted about its foreign aid while repeatedly blocking a proposal to waive the intellectual property rights to the COVID vaccines, it revealed a 150-year-old pattern of empty generosity.
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The House of Windsor must fall
But not before they pay reparations to the descendants of the victims of the transatlantic trade in Africans.
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China, the Canadian left, and countering state capitalist apologia
Amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Chinese governments, a troubling campist discourse has been growing in the Canadian left. Socialists should side with neither the American nor the Chinese state – instead, we need to build internationalism from below.
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Are any of Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas relevant for us today?
One hundred years after the murder of the Polish-German revolutionary socialist, are any of her ideas still useful for leftists?
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dis place
“I joke that I’ve been playing hide-and-seek with U.S. immigration since 2003. With the announcement of DACA in 2012, the game has shifted to legal limbo, purgatory, how low can you go?” Creative non-fiction runner-up of the Writing in the Margins contest.
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The Honduran Election Crisis
Canadian capital stands to benefit from the fraudulent election of a far right-wing government that has brought down the full force of the military on Hondurans – particularly on activists like Berta Cáceres.
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The Ottawa Connection
Authors’ responses to the interventions and comments that emerged through the symposium
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The Ottawa Connection
Nicole Fabricant: What does the hyper-militarization of resource-based capitalism in the Andes and mean for social movements in the region, for Indigenous peoples, and for alternative socio-ecologies?
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The Ottawa Connection
Kyla Sankey: How do the authors invoke David Harvey’s concept of accumulation by dispossession?
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The Ottawa Connection
Simon Granovsky-Larsen argues that the greatest contribution of Blood of Extraction lies in the use of documents released through access to information requests in Canada.
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The Ottawa Connection
Jerome Klassen on Blood of Extraction demonstrates how Canadian foreign policy in Latin America can be viewed in relation to global dynamics of economic, political, and military power.
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The Ottawa Connection
A six-part discussion on the contributions of the new book by Todd Gordon and Jeffery Webber, Blood of Extraction.
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Outsourcing sovereignty
Haiti is an avant-garde microcosm of the privatization, deregulation, and loosening of state structures and protections that is happening everywhere.
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Responsibility to protect?
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a new name for the old concept of humanitarian intervention, or humanitarian imperialism.
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Constructed categories
If labour is imagined outside of wage work and governmental categories, it gives us the tools to further a more collective struggle against the living legacies of dispossession, colonization, and exploitation.
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Red light on the Red Cross in Haiti?
More than two years after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, there’s little to show for the $200 million in donations pledged to the Canadian Red Cross for reconstruction efforts. After historic outpourings of support, why has there been so little progress on the ground in Haiti?