What's Left 2016-04-24 Volume 55
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
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 Ontario Superior Court uses strong language to denounce the anti-union actions of the Liberal Government in Ontario.
We need to reduce the demand as well as the supply of fossil fuels to stop catastrophic climate change. This conversation needs to be lead by socialists, not cause division among them.
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.
Bernie Sanders' presidential run has generated some interesting music for our times.
A Labour Notes 2016 panel on the fight to raise the minimum wage linked the struggle for redistribution to that of workers' power.
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
The response to the rise in the visibility of income and social inequality has meant that the general population is starting to pay attention to this shift and the struggles of precarious workers. However, like any political struggle, the solutions to these struggles differ depending on ones politics and position within the economy.
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.