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• Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech & Islamophobia: a response to Leigh Phillips
  on Jan 14, 2015
  Well, it's certainly been a while since I've posted anything but since I still have this blog thing in my name it seemed a better place to post something longer than just on facebook. There has been a lot of debate about the terrible massacre at Char...
• Norm Kelly v Rob Ford: The Right Wing Mayor Is Dead. Long Live The Right Wing Mayor!
  on Nov 19, 2013 in austerity Christie Blatchford Coup CUPE Denzil Minnan-Wong Deputy Mayor Doug Ford Gord Perks Janet Davis neo-liberalism Norm Kelly Rob Ford the left Toronto City Council Toronto Labour Council
  Happier days for the populist right Well, it was indeed a circus at city hall yesterday. I wasn’t able to attend the performance live but did have the pleasure of watching some of it unfold via the miracle of the interwebs. Those Ford brothers su...
• Ford Saga: Left Gives Cover To Right Wing Palace Coup
  on Nov 14, 2013 in Gord Perks Chief Bill Blair Rob Ford socialism neo-liberalism the left Toronto City Council Giorgio Mammoliti Doug Ford Denzil Minnan-Wong moral panics crack video Olivia Chow Police Chief
  Cuts, what cuts? It's all about bad behaviour photo credit: @HeartsOnTheLeft Not one word about cuts. Not one word about privatizing garbage collection. Nothing about his refusal to ever attend a single Gay Pride Parade. Zilch about his actual pol...
• Three Reasons Why Ford Should Stay
  on Nov 6, 2013 in austerity Chief Bill Blair Toronto Police Services crack Rob Ford Andrew Pringle neo-liberalism the left John Tory trade unions Toronto City Council Karen Stintz Doug Ford crack video Olivia Chow
  Everyone’s clamouring for Ford to resign: he lied, he smoked crack, he was wasted on the job, the city needs a competent administration. Balls, I say. I’ve seen competent administrations and I can say for certain in the present climate that a “...
• Bye Bye Rob Ford, Hello Karen Stintz
  on Nov 1, 2013 in Ford Nation Tory government Toronto Police Services Rob Ford socialism Toronto library cuts NDP stephen harper Toronto Star Toronto Sun Toronto City Council Karen Stintz Doug Ford Bill Blair
  There is the sound of champagne corks being popped and cheers in the streets. Everyone smiles at each other and winks, knowing that soon it will all be over. The hated burgermeister is falling and no one, except perhaps his family, will be sad to see...
• On Pythons & Media Generated Paranoia
  on Aug 7, 2013 in newspapers exotic pets socialism python Marxism Lake Victoria capitalism tragedy Mainstream media
  My partner and I have been talking much about the horribly tragic death of two boys in New Brunswick a couple of days ago. KP is snake-o-phobic and this just confirmed her worst fears, especially with a reptile shop around the corner that sells large...
• Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
  on Aug 6, 2013 in social movements Democracy social media ACT-UP internet blogging Twitter revolution 2.0 web 2.0 Jesse McLaren Facebook SWP technology International Socialist Tendency Arab Spring Marxism
  I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I've often thought that the role of new media, social media etc etc has been under-theorized by Marxists. You tend to see stuff that goes in...
• Genes, Robots & The Internet: How Capitalism Revolutionizes The Planet
  on Jul 10, 2013 in Marxist theory John Parrington iRobot capitalism Stephen Rose Rethink Robotics progress technology China ENCODE Human Genome Project Marxism science Rodney Brooks
  function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function()...
• Massacre in Egypt: Is Revolution Worth The Price?
  on Jul 8, 2013 in Syria Mubarak Muslim Brotherhood Revolutionary Socialists Bahrain socialism Cairo civil war Libya capitalism egypt massacre revolution Arab Spring Marxism SCAF Yemen
  As I sat down to write this post the news of a tragic massacre of at least 32 Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated protestors, and the injury of 300 more was plastered all over the internet. That much is clear, the rest is yet to be disentangled (if ever) f...
• Frankenfoods, Toothpaste, & Justin Bieber: Capitalism & Technology II
  on Jun 19, 2013 in technology China GMO Singularity Marxism capitalism Monsanto economy
  In a previous post I argued that too often Marxists fail to recognize the ways in which capitalism remains dynamic and continues to advance technologically and socially. This one-sidedness distorts analyses and perspectives and threatens to give Marx...

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