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May 13, 2020

Conservatives are weaponizing the COVID-19 pandemic to promote nationalism

Nicholas Erwin-Longstaff

As things stand, we face a future where we are asked to choose between a nationalist right and a liberal centre. The left must present a compelling and plausible alternative to these paths.

Blog

Apr 13, 2020

Could libertarian and neoliberal ideology implode from this pandemic?

Jim Harding

This pandemic fundamentally challenges us to rethink norms and clichés about freedom and authority; about the individual, the community and the "state."

Blog

Apr 13, 2020

Canada's universal single-payer health-care system is our best vaccination against the neoliberal virus

David J. Climenhaga

The United States is critically ill -- COVID-19 is the proximate cause, but the ailment that may kill it is neoliberalism.

Blog

Mar 26, 2020

Think what we could have accomplished if we'd concentrated on global warming like we're focusing on COVID-19!

David J. Climenhaga

By the time we get around to addressing the problem of global warming seriously, we may well be at the end of our rope.

News

Jan 3, 2020

Taking profits out of long-term care: a conversation with Albert Banerjee

Zaid Noorsumar

The neoliberalization of Ontario's long-term care system has resulted in all the contradictions and inefficiencies associated with for-profit health care delivery.

News

Dec 6, 2019

Inside Ecuador's mass movement against neoliberalism

Diana Vela Almeida

This fall, Ecuador erupted into massive protests against neoliberal economic reforms. Protesters orchestrated a unified national shutdown and spurred an international movement against neoliberalism.

Podcast

Nov 7, 2019

Report from the streets of Santiago

rabble radio

Corvin Russell talks to activist, writer and educator Carlos Torres about the roots of the protests in Chile and the on the ground events of the past two weeks.

Columnists

Oct 31, 2019

Popular uprisings against neoliberalism are spreading around the world

Amy Goodman

Denis Moynihan

Puerto Rico. Hong Kong. Ecuador. Haiti. Lebanon. Iraq. And now, Chile. People are rising up around the world against austerity and corruption, defying police forces unleashed to suppress them.

Blog

Mar 28, 2019

Earth's inhabitants stranded in a leaking neoliberal lifeboat

Ed Finn

The passengers in a leaky lifeboat can't logically be divided into winners and losers. Either they all win, or they all lose.

Columnists

Jan 15, 2019

Rethinking public debt: Former IMF chief economist tackles a taboo

Duncan Cameron

A core belief of neoliberal capitalists is that government budgets must be balanced to prevent the accumulation of public debt. But is public debt necessarily bad?

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