Here's a very excellent video adaptation of a 2010 David Harvey presentation which explains the 2008 economic crisis and how the financialization of capital (among other things) helped to contribute to that crisis.
In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane economic system?
A ‘culture of cheating,’ party insiders say, stopped climate activist Anjali Appadurai from becoming premier
It was early September, and a top official in B.C.’s New Democratic Party had put in a call to the Ottawa office of Canada’s largest labour organization. The caller was panicked.
“We fucked up,” they said, according to a source familiar with the call.
Given the company’s environmental record, the government should stop work on the pipeline rather than subsiziding it.
As Coastal GasLink drills under the Wedzin Kwa (Morice River), I have been reflecting on my visit to Wet’suwet’en territory this summer. My colleague, Green MLA Adam Olsen, and I had the great honour of being invited to the territory as guests and witnesses.
A potential showdown between organized labor and Wall Street looms over the world of freight trains: An influential railroad workers group is urging fellow union members to reject a tentative labor agreement that has prevented an industry-wide strike, and to fight for public ownership of railroads. Negotiations are tense, and the unions are telling members that every vote counts.
Disgruntled Appadurai supporters gear up to take control of NDP, riding by riding.
VICTORIA — Premier-designate David Eby wrote to NDP members this week in an effort to patch things up with Anjali Appadurai supporters after her ouster as a candidate for the party leadership.
Two narratives collided head-on in spectacular fashion late Wednesday night when the BC NDP disqualified Anjali Appadurai from the party’s leadership race, alleging she broke multiple campaign rules, so clearing the way for David Eby to become the premier of B.C.
Thanks to everyone who has written in support of my @guardian piece urging radical change. I must make one correction: it’s not about Corbynism. It’s about socialism. The fight for a kinder society is a collective struggle: we owe it to each other to win.
