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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 field that operates almost exclusively by using terminology that is designed to be confusing and obscurantist. Bourgeois economic commentary on the housing market is no different; it is propag...

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 ‘regulate’ street vending by assuring ‘space’. The provision of a norm of 2.5% is unpalatable to the state.  3. Planning to regulate and ascribe a location to vending c...

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 town): please stay home in the case of a positive test!Attendees can create your own personalized schedules for the conference weekend through the Sched app—where you’ll also be able to find the most up-to-date version of the sche...

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 our virtual program and making a donation to help us cover the associated costs!Please note! RSVPing for our virtual program does not grant entry to the in-person Socialism Conference.  RSVP to attend Social...

Why this petition matters Started by Gauteng T2 I hope this finds you well. The intention of this petition is to address an issue of profound importance concerning the values and affiliations associated with Maccabi South Africa, the Maccabi Table Tennis Club, and partner entities like JusTT. After careful reflection and extensive deliberation within our own organization (Gauteng T2 Table Tennis Club), it has come to our attention that the Maccabi South Africa publicly aligns itself with Zionist ideologies and supports the State of Israel. Refer: https://maccabi.co.za/site/our-purpose/"...while promoting Zionism and supporting the State of Israel.""...to actively promote Zionism and support of the State of Israel."While we respect the diversity of opinions, we feel c...

By José Miguel Gándara C. La Marx Spain On August 5, humanity was commemorating, because it was 129 years since the death of one of the most brilliant minds not only of the 19th century, but of the entire corpus of Marxist thought. On August 5, 1895, a scientific communist, co-author of the founding works of unionism, socialism and communism, Friedrich Engels, died in London, England. This had seen the light in Barmen, Prussia, on November 28, 1820, he was born into a bourgeois family, since it owned a good number of textile industries in the Rhineland. The insistence of Engels's father that he dedicate himself to the family businesses gave him the opportunity to learn first-hand the perverse ins and outs of capitalism and its economic practices. What is communi...

Demands Submitted to State Govt and fruitful discussion held with Mission Sakti Addl Secretary & Director, they assured that the Department will not insist on restructure. They also told that the Records, Registers, Passbook, Account Books & other things of GPLF is to be kept in GPLF Office, if there is no office it has to be kept with President & Secretary of GPLF. By Jayantha Das

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La Marx International A huge insurrection led by thousands of young people is raging in 47 of Bangladesh's 64 districts against the capitalist government of Sheikh Hasina Wazed and the Awami League in the world's eighth most populous country. Prime Minister Hasina's government has imposed a curfew, and the deployment of the army has launched a crackdown to stop the movement that has caused more than 100 deaths, according to breaking hospital data. Hasina's government has also cut off telecommunications connections, news channels, and the internet to prevent the development of organizing among the activists leading the revolution. The revolution of the youth of Bangladesh takes place within the framework of a revolutionary process that runs through the Southeast Asian region such as t...