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Workers Uniting celebrates Bangladesh denim workers’ victory

logo_workers_uniting.pngWorkers Uniting celebrates Bangladesh denim workers’ victory Workers Uniting, the world’s first global union, is celebrating a major victory in a Bangladesh factory that...

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The globalization of solidarity: A draft communiqué for the G8/G20

Thursday, April 22, 2010What kind of message do we want to see following the upcoming June meetings of the G8/G20 in Ontario? More of the same is dangerous for humanity. Activists are already readying...

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Ireland proves banking is too important to be left to the bankers

Tuesday, November 30, 2010Concern for the plight of others is normal; it is part of being human. People recognize what it means for someone else to be cold or wet, or face thirst or hunger. Accounts of...

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Wikileaks and the decline of the American empire

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 The U.S. exported financial deregulation, promising it to be the epitome of the new capitalism that would offer the world economic salvation. The result is a banking, moral...

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What deflation will do to Canada

Tuesday, December 7, 2010Where is the Canadian economy headed? The federal finance minister is on the road doing his pre-budget consultations. Expect Jim Flaherty to return with the same complacent...

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U.K. riots: Feral capitalism is at least as big a culprit

Saturday, August 13, 2011 Everyone, not just the rioters, should be held to account, with the richest abusers of our world and society being put on trial for crimes against humanity as well as for...

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Time to talk replacements as capitalism moves to bury itself

Monday, September 26, 2011Where is Henry Ford when you need him? You may remember Henry -- the ruthless industrialist who nonetheless refused to be hobbled by suicidal ideology when it came to doing...

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Gender, labour and Salimah Valiani's 'Rethinking Unequal Exchange'

Wednesday, October 24, 2012Many progressives, unlike neoliberals, believe that labourers, not investors, are the fundamental source of economic productivity, innovation and wealth. Implicit in this...

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Harper government resists strong labour rights chapter in slow-moving TPP...

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What to do about Harper's corporate rights deals: A few thoughts from the...

Forget the acronyms, fight the overall corporate agenda. If there was a general message to my six-city trade justice tour with Harjap Grewal this week in B.C., that was it. We're facing an onslaught of...

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Saving ourselves from capitalism in a time of corporate power

Tuesday, July 30, 2013Chrystia Freedland, the prominent Reuters editor just recruited by the Liberals to contest the nomination in the Toronto Centre riding vacated by Bob Rae, remarks how capitalism...

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Book: Planet Carnivore

A new book by journalist Alex Renton takes a short sharp tour of the cheap meat habit, its costs and solutions. Alex Renton is an award-winning journalist specializing in poverty and development and in...

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The Mediterranean refugee crisis is a human-made disaster

Friday, April 24, 2015Would whoever makes these decisions please stop treating refugees who drown in the Mediterranean as if they're another earthquake or tsunami? This isn't a natural disaster, it's a...

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Rio may be end games for high-performance capitalism

Friday, August 5, 2016Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Ozymandias in Rio. In Copenhagen in 2009, when Brazil's successful bid for this...

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Plastic and capitalism are killing ocean life

For 21st-century capitalism the more disposable the better. Ocean life and human health be damned.According to a recent Ellen MacArthur Foundation study, the world's oceans are set to have more plastic...

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