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TODAY! LIVE + IN PERSON MEET THE NEW EDITOR OF MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
Join us 5/28 in-person for the first-ever live launch of the Socialist Register in New York City, at The People’s Forum! This is also your chance to come meet, in person, our new editor, Arun Kundnani, alongside the (relatively new) coeditor of the Socialist Register, Steve Maher, joined by three contributors to this year’s volume: Ibrahim Shikaki, Costas Lapavitsas, and Paul Heideman. Together they will consider these and other questions: –What kind of world order is now emerging?
So Much for ‘Austerity-Lite’ in Ontario
Greg Albo, Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli Canadian Politics May 17, 2019 Photo by Victor Fedeli (Twitter) One eminent conservative scholar of public budgeting characterized annual budgets as a record of “.” Ontario’s 2019 Budget, the first of the new Conservative government of Doug Ford, does indeed tell us something of winners and losers with its additional fiscal supports for business and erosion of social expenditures for everyone else.
Doug Ford’s Ontario: Hard Right Turn
Volume 52, Issue 3: Fall 2018 Greg Albo Canadian Politics December 21, 2018 Photo by Albert C ‘‘Ford’s ‘government for the people’ thus pivots, like Trump’s regime in the U.S., around ideological appeals to a hard-right provincialism, patriarchal family values set against a hostile world of crime and terrorism, mobilization of ethnic and racial chauvinisms, and mystical market solutions for every ill.’’ A decade after the global financial crisis, few of the initial political calculations on...
Turning Doug Ford’s Attack on Toronto into a Movement for Democratic Renewal
An open letter about Bill 5 Better Local Government Act We, the undersigned group of scholars and teachers, deplore the autocratic and arbitrary reduction of ward representation for Toronto city council contained in Bill 5 being rushed through the Ontario Legislature by the just-elected Doug Ford-led Conservative provincial government. There are numerous problems with this initiative – both in terms of policy and process – that cannot be squared with democratic values or procedures.
Demeaning Democracy: Turning Doug Ford’s Attack on Toronto into a Movement for Democratic Renewal
We, the undersigned group of scholars and teachers, deplore the autocratic and arbitrary reduction of ward representation for Toronto city council contained in Bill 5 being rushed through the Ontario Legislature by the just-elected Doug Ford-led Conservative provincial government. There are numerous problems with this initiative – both in terms of policy and process – that cannot be squared with democratic values or procedures.
Turning Doug Ford’s attack on Toronto into a movement for democratic renewal
The autocratic and arbitrary reduction of ward representation for Toronto city council that is currently being rushed through the Ontario legislature by the Doug Ford-led PC government will not result in better local government. As policy or a reform process, Bill 5, the Better Local Government Act, cannot be squared with democratic values or procedures.
Opinion | Turning Doug Ford’s attack on Toronto into a movement for democratic renewal
The autocratic and arbitrary reduction of ward representation for Toronto city council that is currently being rushed through the Ontario legislature by the Doug Ford-led PC government will not result in better local government. As policy or a reform process, Bill 5, the Better Local Government Act, cannot be squared with democratic values or procedures.
2018 Socialist Register: Rethinking Democracy
The antagonism between liberalism and democratic processes is increasingly visible amidst the contradictions of capitalist globalization today. This is seen in authoritarian measures being adopted by so many states, as … Watch video » The antagonism between liberalism and democratic processes is increasingly visible amidst the contradictions of capitalist globalization today.
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