Category: English

By Simon Gallagher – La Marx USA Tens of thousands of dockworkers are launching a strike on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts, joining Boeing workers in a rising wave of strikes rocking the country. Tens of thousands of dockworkers from Maine to Houston in Texas went on strike Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. ET in their first strike across the East Coast since 1977. Workers are fighting back against low and stagnant wages, demanding a 70% wage increase over six years. Long live the struggle of the port workers!! At…

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Editor: Flo Schade Managing Editor: Yener Kara Federal Secretary: Barry Weisleder The Political Economy of Housing By Flo Schade – Housing commodification and mortgage debt play a huge role in the current political economy. Particularly true in the Canadian context, financialized speculation of housing plays such an outsized role that it results in the contradiction that housing serves a function very different than providing shelter for people. Let’s start with a broad three-point assessment of bourgeois economics and then specify how that relates to the housing crisis. Economics is a…

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Those interested in knowing more, please refer to: https://epw.in/journal/2023/8/review-urban-affairs/planning-informal.html Do DM/message me if you need a PDF of the piece.  Key arguments: 1. Draft MPD 2041 and its absence of inclusion of provision for vending and SV Act 2014 is an antecedence to the impending challenges of implementing SV Act, and to understand how it will be resisted, diluted and excluded from planning practices.  2. The Street Vendors Act is an outlier & contradicts neo-liberal urban logic and challenges the state that is used to removing informalities to ‘protect’ and…

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Online registration for the conference is closed, but you can still register in person! Visit our registration table—on the second level of the Hyatt Conference Center—starting at 11:30am on Friday to register in person! Conference sessions will begin promptly at 2:30pm and you’ll need your registration badge to gain entry, so make sure to arrive early to avoid getting stuck in line. Here are some final conference reminders: We’re asking all conference attendees to take a rapid Covid test before traveling to Socialism 2024 (whether from across the country or across…

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The Socialism 2024 virtual program will feature speakers including: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Noura Erakat, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Rabbi Brant Rosen, George Abraham, Ilan Pappé, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, Sarah Jaffe, Eman Abdelhadi, Kelly Hayes, Vincent Bevins, Hanif Abdurraqib, and more.  Making sure that conference sessions are accessible to folks who aren’t able to join us in person is very important to us—but it also comes with a hefty price tag. While all of our live-streamed programming is available for free, please consider RSVPing for…

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