Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World ..read more

The Middle East is on the brink of war precisely because western politicians indulged for decades every military excess by Israel ..read more

Canada’s campus media fellowship offers $1,000 to students, including journalists, to advocate for Israel ..read more

The world has watched for six months as Palestinians are murdered, injured and displaced en masse by the Israeli occupation. Canada has aided and abetted this atrocity. Canadian arms deals with Israel flow freely in both directions: exporting military power to Israel, importing Israeli weapons “battle-tested” on Palestinian children. Since October 7, “the total value of the new permits authorised over two months exceeds the 30-year annual record high of $26-million in Canadian military exports to Israel in 2021.” This is complicity in its vilest form. Three months into this genocide, a six-yea ..read more

Where does one begin to chronicle the cumulative calculus of 164 days of genocide ..read more

Harper's fund controls and is the main investor in Israeli company that developed facial recognition tech being used by IDF ..read more

How the US and its allies defund and destroy Palestine ..read more

The Palestinian Feminist Collective condemns sophicide and scholasticide in Gaza - the deliberate annihilation of Indigenous knowledge traditions and the physical destruction of centers of knowledge ..read more

This is an extract from The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From JPMorgan to BlackRock by Scott Aquanno and Stephen Maher, available now from Verso Books. Scott Aquanno and Stephen Maher will be in Toronto on April 27th for a book launch, reserve your ticket. Much of the Left sees finance as being parasitic on industry. Financialization, in this view, amounts to financial institutions capturing the state, hollowing out the “real” economy, and hastening the decline of capitalism. But if we survey the last century of capitalist development, we find that, despite the costs to workers and the ..read more

A red alert for the world is being sounded ..read more