Capitalism

29/08/20
Author: 
Jon Milton
'Dollarama is our Amazon': Warehouse workers organize against unsafe conditions, 'misery wages'

Rally aims to force retail giant to back down on plans to cut pandemic pay boost

20/08/20
Author: 
Sunera Thobani
A Black Lives Matter protest (November 2015). Photo by Johnny Silvercloud via Wikimedia Commons.

Aug 18, 2020

The West is in freefall.

Liberal-democratic institutions have suffered a near-fatal blow in the United States; Europe, caught leaderless as the United States vacates this position, is in disarray.

Three words have come to define this moment: I can't breathe.

04/08/20
Author: 
Jeremy Hainsworth
Greater investment in infrastructure development will bolster economic recovery from the pandemic, a Business Council of BC report says | Maxvis/Getty
[Here, from the Business Council of BC, is another part of what we're up against in determining "whose new normal." Looks pretty much like the old normal with the possible addition of minimal support for childcare resources, a fond wish to co-opt Indigenous groups, an increase in government spending to boost business profits, and a decrease in regulations that protect the rest of us.
           
                Gene McGuckin]
 

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