Monsanto gets bigger and no end to the war in Afghanistan
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View ArticleOccupy political change. Report from Communism: A New Beginning? conference...
Friday, October 21, 2011 It seems surreal for there to be such a symposium 20 years after the official obituary of communism, but once again, the matter of 'can the world be different?', is a pressing...
View ArticleThe fruit machine
Publish Date: February 9, 2012Summary: The RCMP used the fruit machine to out queers working for the government fruit.jpg Though given the nickname from a simple slot machine, the Canadian fruit...
View ArticleA night in purgatory, and other reveries of the ruling class
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View ArticleManning Conference III: The right's strategies for dominating cities and...
Preston Manning and his self-titled hothouse for conservative scheming March 7-9 in Ottawa didn't really help the credibility of Canadian conservatism by scheduling speakers from the fringiest fringes...
View ArticleConservative smear machine hits the NDP with old-fashioned red-baiting
When the Conservative smear machine goes into high gear one is tempted to think of Lincoln's famous dictum -- the one about how "you can't fool all of the people all of the time."Then again, there is...
View ArticleNot Rex: Free Nelson Mandela. Again.
Is this show currently playing? December 12, 2013 The hypocritical words of Stephen Harper and other former "pro-apartheid" politicians are disgraceful. If one really wants to honour Mandela, engage...
View ArticleStephen Harper attacks the 'evils of communism.' But what of the victims of...
Is this show currently playing? June 2, 2014 In a speech in Toronto this weekend, Stephen Harper attacks the "evils of communism," and raises money to build a memorial for its "victims" in Ottawa....
View ArticleNot Rex: Capitalism! Corporations! More war!
Is this show currently playing? November 14, 2014 After the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism became the, well, exploitative monopoly of choice. Where has this left us?...
View ArticleCommunism killed the cat: This week's Blogs roundup
This week, the Charlie Hebdo tragedy is still fresh in our collective consciousness. But lest we continuously ride the #JeSuisCharlie bandwagon, let’s pick our battles a little more scrupulously. Nora...
View ArticleCongrats, Glorious Leader, on your monumental decision
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Stephen Harper puts the word 'stir' in prime minister: He wants to build a nice statue for the victims of communism. And why not? It's not like we have more important things...
View ArticleUncovering the myths of communism!
Addressing some of the common concerns about communismLike this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.This highly informative interview with Guelph...
View ArticlePonomarev on Putin: Understanding the Russian bear
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Reading Anne Applebaum's superb historical analysis of the Soviet prison system, Gulag: A History,...
View ArticleWhat we can learn from the rise of Bernie Sanders
Friday, January 22, 2016Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. There's no real capitalism any more, plutocracy rules everywhere -- which is...
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