–CUPE celebrates a life of a dedicated unionist.

–Wednesday, January 23 at noon there will be a rally of labour and students in support of the Faculty Association of St. Thomas University. The rally will be hold across the street from the NRC building.

–Duncan Cameron talks about the talk of recession.

–The capitalists bring workers hard times. So, what does our finance minister give out? You guessed it: more tax cuts for the rich.

–Bloomberg reports from the dirty capitalist summit: The World Economic Forum. You can bet that there will be less back patting this year given the realities of the markets going into the Forum.

–The really silly thing is that someone out there actually thinks that there is competent imperialism.

–This is not even in the Canadian press yet. Support the farmer, demand an end to the Monsanto monopoly.

–Why do we continue to allow crazy people to stay in leadership positions? Anyone who thinks that these positions are reasonable needs to be in a mental ward.

–The STU Students should be ashamed that their student union is acting this way. Students should be standing with their professors not with the administration which pretends to have the students’ interests first while undermining negotiations and doing nothing to combat tuition fee increases. St. Thomas is a public institution. The students should be putting pressure on the government to increase public funding for the university and standing with the faculty to show that they are serious about quality education.

–We protest as the corporations slowly poison us and our families.

–Don’t get your hopes up. There is nothing like defence contracts to do absolutely nothing for long-term economic sustainability. The government under McKenna tried the same thing only to have the contract end just in time for the people to forget who he was.

“About 50 white separatists protested the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday in this tiny town”

White separatists? Is that what we’re calling KKK wannabes these days?

The new parliament will meet Feb. 24 to select a governing council of states, which will then elect a president. It is then that Castro’s official status will be determined.

The factory’s overcapacity is the result not of a shortage of business — it has more orders than it can fill, despite a slowing U.S. economy — but because of a shortage of skilled workers.

While millions of jobs making everything from textiles to steel have moved to new powerhouses like China in recent years, precision manufacturing remains a crucial niche in the United States, one that is overworked and chronically understaffed.

And, in a bad sign for the United States and its declining economic might, that shortage of skilled workers is likely to get worse as Baby Boomers retire — with no younger generation of manufacturing workers to take the baton.

Collective punishment is against international law. Shame on Israel.

–A York University seminar in Comparative Political Economy.

–Robert Fisk video interview. Worth a watch.

–Interesting. While it is true that debt is out of control, the solution will have to include a reduction of student debt through decreases in tuition and increase in minimum wages so that people do not get trapped in debt in the first place. Also, there has to be regulation on how debt is given out and how much interest can be charged.

–Yep, the abolition of slavery was said to be too expensive as well. Working people on PEI deserve better and they deserve at least the protections the rest of the country has.

–It is hard to see how a government that says it cares about human rights but then pushes for free trade deals with states that oppress any and all progressive movements in their country is not hypocritical — the horrible thing is that we just come to expect it from the Conservatives.

–The rich don’t want to share with the indigenous people of Bolivia.

–Imperialism continues to push back grassroots development that creeps up in Somalia in spite of all the odds.