What's Left 2016-05-08 Volume 57
Uber business model spreads to food delivery; NASA is becoming a victim of US-style capitalism; Proposed U.S. anti-encryption 'laughable'; and Left Noise for this week.
Uber business model spreads to food delivery; NASA is becoming a victim of US-style capitalism; Proposed U.S. anti-encryption 'laughable'; and Left Noise for this week.
Alberta and Just Transition; Public Libraries have proven their worth: They should be funded accordingly; Left Noise This Week.
This week in Left Noise; Ontario Superior Court gives victory for workers' rights; Opposition to Trans-Pacific Partnership growing; Private energy sector partners in trouble
The Leap Manifesto, Alberta, and the realities of the demand for oil; Black Lives Matter released a mixtape; Sanders at Coachella; Fighting for $15 and Fairness. Read, debate, listen. All original content.
Why we fight: the battle for increased minimum wage; Exposing anti-black racism in Canadian media and politics; Housing, identity and the Left; Songs of the revolution; and Nuit Debout: the people of France fight back
This edition celebrates a year's worth of content with two features: Lost in technology: The struggles of the modern political campaign; and The 'precariate': A new demographic for organizing change.
New data alarms climate scientists; Massive Black Lives Matter rally in Toronto highlights struggle; Sanders campaign gives hope to political progress regardless of outcome; Black Americans prohibited from employment in legal marijuana industry; Varoufakis is back and it's going to be great; Corbyn hates privatized education, teachers love Corbyn.
Our 50th edition of What's Left this Week: Resource allocation and building worker power; Universities outsourcing to lower wages; Mass surveillance Canadian Style; Attacks on the Workers' Party of Brazil; and Corbyn's Labour Party, the media and polling.
Dispatch from the US: While Sanders fights to gain momentum, Trump dominates Republican race; Canada Revenue Agency offers amnesty to wealthy in secret agreement; Medical marijuana workers excluded from Ontario Labour Relations Act protections; How and why we need to get ourselves out of the self care trap:Debate over iPhone encryption a distraction from debate over gun regulation
Ontario's budget and tuition fees, phone security, retirement and the right-wing up to their old tricks in Latin America.