–What is this nonsense? People should write in to the city and demand that this garbage be taken down. While it is not only is it not guaranteed that the city would save that money, it is guaranteed that the service would decline and the impact on our communities (which include public sector workers) will be negative. The current choice is ours, either we pay for our services through a fair tax system, or we undermine the fabric of our communities. We must mobilize against these attacks on workers and our communities.
By Chris Hedges | What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. A good record on the environment. But that was the old Canada.
By Duncan Cameron | Rabble.ca | When Harper was in Davos, Switzerland, last week to address the World Economic Forum, he did not talk about the subject of the conference. Instead he presented his austerity plan for Canada.
“The fighting has grown more intense as an anti-Assad group known as the Free Syrian Army, composed partly of army defectors, has attacked and violently resisted loyalist forces … the Syrian National Council, a large Syrian opposition group, was reported to have rejected the offer outright unless Mr. Assad stepped down first — a condition that both Mr. Assad and Russia have said is unacceptable.”
Jane Slaughter | Labor Notes | On a scale never before seen in Canada, the mayor of Toronto seeks to privatize city services and is taking on the largest public sector locals in Canada to do so. Counting down to a lockout February 5, city workers’ unions are scrambling to make their case to city residents.
What exactly is “deplorable,” or “inappropriate”? Urinating on the dead bodies of people we killed in a criminal war, or the killing (i.e. war) itself?
“The people running the Misrata detention centre told the BBC they were aware of inmates being taken away to be tortured, but were powerless to stop it.”
Readers may also want to listen to CBC Radio’s interview with the Director of Doctors Without Borders about the violence they are seeing in post-Nato Libya.
“Bani Walid, 90 miles (140 km) south of Tripoli, was one of the last towns to surrender to the anti-Gaddafi rebellion last year. Hundreds of fighters loyal to the interim government have surrounded the isolated town after hearing word that a pro-Gaddafi uprising had broken out.”
On February 28th 2012 over 100,000,000 Indian workers will come out on strike. Workers from many unions and sectors are trying to gain improvements in areas such as, pay, pensions, and employment rights.
Christoph Hermann | Socialist Project | While in previous crises shorter work hours were discussed as a measure to combat growing unemployment, an astonishing feature of the current economic downturn from 2007 on was that work time reductions were nowhere on the political agenda.
“The uprising in Bani Walid could not come at a worse time for the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC). It is already reeling from violent protests in the eastern city of Benghazi and the resignation of its second most senior official.”
“[A] day after townsmen put to flight a force loyal to the Western-backed interim administration in Tripoli, elders in the desert city, once a bastion of support for Muammar Gaddafi, dismissed accusations they wanted to restore the late dictator’s family to power or had any ambitions beyond their local area.”
