In the past few weeks Venezuela has been shook by violent protests, some say violent repression of peaceful protests. The central notion in every narrative […]
Author: Niall Clapham Ricardo
The phantom of the middle class
Recently, in the House of Commons, “middle class” has become the favorite buzz word, omnipresent in every debate related near or far to the current […]
The crisis of democratic reform
In the past two weeks, “democratic reform” has been on everybody’s lips within the spectrum of federal politics, from Trudeau’s supposedly “bombshell” announcement that Liberal […]
Never Again: Harper should learn what it means before using it
It’s been in the news for the past couple of weeks, omnipresent in all most every headline, on every news channel, in every newspaper. Harper’s […]
Land: The struggle for all
It was new year’s eve 1994, through the rainforest that covers the majority of the Chiapas region of south western Mexico, a movement under the […]
Charter versus Health Care?
It certainly isn’t an understatement to say that in the past weeks the political debate in Quebec has revolved around the charter. It is my […]
The rise of La Quenelle
Something smells fishy within the realm of the French republic; La Quenelle, a sort of inverse Nazi salute, which first appeared during the 2009 European […]
2013: The year of the socialist alternative
It’s that time of the year again, the time for review of the year articles, the top 10s of 2013, the political winners and the […]
The Lampedusa Manifesto
In 1941 at the height of the Second World War on an island in many ways similar to Lampedusa, the island of Ventotene, two leaders […]
Canada’s endless ‘cheap’ labour supply and how it must be stopped
As this year draws to a close, we see a spike of nearly five percent of foreign temporary workers admitted to Canada over the course […]