–This is why call centres should not be part of the future economic plans for this province. We need real jobs, with real security for workers, and real benefits. The only way that we are going to get this is if we start to build an economy that looks to the needs of New Brunswick first. We must demand better, we must start producing value-added products for local consumption, we must stop engaging in economic fairytale policies like those of `Atlantica’ and the `Gateway’ projects. Working people, students, and the public sector are going to have to start getting engaged in the political process and demanding real solutions. Otherwise, we are going to end up a third world province.

–The BC Fed demands a 10 dollar minimum wage.

–Duncan Cameron on the decline of Canadian ownership. There is an argument to be made that Canadian companies can be controlled more than US companies on Canadian soil… however, what is really upsetting is that capital will now leave the country and workers will be under the boot of someone even farther away than before.

–More information about the Chilean protests.

–More undemocratic behaviour of our illustrious Prime Minister.

–It is hard to understand how we can continue to let this happen. The problem in Nigeria is that the people do not have access to the wealth from their own resources. Breaking up the state-oil company is not the way to remedy this.

–The direct oppression of the right to elect people from our own ranks continues.

–More junk-stories coming out of the BBC around the popular protests in Chile. Support the workers.

–Our industrial age. We think that we are so smart but when it comes to regulation and safety there are still people who think that the `market’ will solve our problems. The people of the world are starting to realize that this is not the case.

–We need jobs not a `fund’.

–Pot, kettle, black.

–They’ve got to be joking?!? Canada is on the ground in Afghanistan and allowed for conditions to continue to deteriorate because they are too focused on protecting the US capital interests in the country to the point that people are kidnapped… and they think that they have the moral authority to `rebuke’ a state that did what it could to save the lives of its citizens? This, my friends, is beyond words.

Another horrible headline - they were killed by the Israeli army.

“Eight children have now been killed by Israeli military operations in Gaza and the West Bank in just over a week.”

–A must read for anyone interested in the current process of 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela and the rest of South America.

–NDP Hosts a public discussion on the `Security and Prosperity Partnership’ in Fredericton, NB.

Following the August 20 Leaders’ Summit in Montebello Quebec concerning the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), the Fredericton NDP is hosting a gathering for discussion.

Please join Peter Julian, Member of Parliament, NDP International Trade Critic, and Kelly Comer, Fredericton NDP candidate to learn more about the SPP agenda.

Ted Daigle Auditorium, Edmund Casey Hall, Saint Thomas University
August 29, 7:00 p.m.
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm

–Chavez calls for a re-united Left within an international framework. For those that understand the Left’s history the title could read: Chavez calls for a new International. This contributor agrees.

–Excerpts from a political magazine in Australia.

–It goes without saying that Parliament should not start a new session and try to forget all those bills that are on the floor… too bad that the layabout Conservatives will never agree.

–I am not saying that I agree with this statement (it is up to those that study history to debate whether Lenin was, in fact, a `humanitarian’) however, it is an interesting thesis.

–Working people continue to be under attack. In the US, workers seemed to be losing ground over recent history but things are coming around lately.

–The government loves giving out corporate welfare…

–George Monbiot writes about the history of neo-liberalism… sort of. Anyway, it is an interesting read.

–The Bolivian political party (and mass movement) Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) is leading the charge in Bolivia to keep its leader Evo Morales on course. We must support the socialist movements in South America that continue to move forward.

–The police state in Canada is exposed.

–Support the workers, end scab labour.

–The Left is growing in Quebec.

–Robert Fisk writes about the Armenian genocide.

–More value for your dollar. Public utilities are to compete with already-present private companies.

–The business elite are staging a lockout in Bolivia to oppose the people and popular policies of Morales. The new battle ground between the interests of the rich elite and the working people has expanded from Venezuela to Bolivia it seems. Support the people, demand justice, demand fairness, demand worker control during a boss’ lockout.

–This is why the `developing’ countries should not hitch themselves to the US economy.

–Job loses look likely in Canada.

–Public money pays for it but the government won’t tell us who it is for… seems fair, no?

–Politics are strange in Britain now that Labour has become New Labour… even the Tories can look like they are progressive because all parties now basically agree that neo-liberalism is inevitable. The working people of Britain need an alternative or they need to take back their Party from the Blairites and neo-liberal cranks.

–Too little, too late. It was cultural genocide after a `regular’ genocide and all the government of Canada can offer is a few thousand dollars. The government hasn’t even guaranteed to not continue the theft of land.

–While it is nice to see that the CBC is promoting free and open source software, they could at least have put an updated version of OpenOffice on the front page of CBC instead of version 1.0. Why not go one step further and promote GNU/Linux.