John Clarke, former major organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), recently posted this on Facebook: John Clarke If you injured your arm and went to the hospital, you'd be quite surprised if the doctor noted the swelling and pain but refused to consider the possibility of a broken bone. Yet, when it comes … Continue reading The Police: Reform (Transform) or Abolish?
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Real Assumption of Some Bureaucratic Tribunals, Part Seven
It is supposed to be a fundamental principle of criminal law that a person is presumed innocent until proven otherwise by the State (government). This is the ideology or the rhetoric (which much of the left have swallowed). The reality is otherwise. In reality, the administrative apparatus of various organizations of the government and semi-governmental … Continue reading Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Real Assumption of Some Bureaucratic Tribunals, Part Seven
An Example of Oppression by the Social-Democratic Left
John Clarke, former major organizer of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, posted this on Facebook: This is mind bogglingly dreadful. Become informers or face eviction from your housing. This, moreover, is no aberration but is entirely in line with Labour's law and order focus. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/05/darren-rodwell-labour-barking-dagenham-london-knife-crime-evictions?fbclid=IwAR13LCRTcNq2gTaGYFKM-SGsHlLohpZQw4IZbv8dL0r_JWnlte5MmJPSO3o
Class Harmony and Social Reformism: The United Way as a Reformist Organization, Part One
This is the first of a two-part post. The first post will look at some of the limitations of the United Way (a charitable organization) as expressed on its website. The second post will look at some of the limitations of the United Way as expressed in one of its publications, Rebalancing the Opportunity Equation. … Continue reading Class Harmony and Social Reformism: The United Way as a Reformist Organization, Part One
A Missed Opportunity: The Limitations of Trade Unions
This is a very short post. When I went to the political picket line/strike and rally on November 4, 2022, there were thousands of people present in front of the Ontario legislative buildings. Premier Doug Ford's ramming through of Bill 28--legislating workers back to work and using the notwithstanding clause of the Charter and Rights … Continue reading A Missed Opportunity: The Limitations of Trade Unions
Economics for Social Democrats–but not for the Working Class, Part Four: Is There Such a Thing as a Responsible Employer in Relation to the Health of Workers?
The Toronto Star published an article in the Opinion section by the social-democratic reformer here in Toronto, Jim Stanford, on January 8, 2022, which directly relates to a previous post (Economics for Social Democrats–but not for the Working Class, Part Three: The Health and Safety of Workers and an Economy Dominated by a Class of … Continue reading Economics for Social Democrats–but not for the Working Class, Part Four: Is There Such a Thing as a Responsible Employer in Relation to the Health of Workers?
The Poverty of Academic Leftism, Part Five: Middle-Class Delusions
This is a continuation of a critique of an academic leftist (aka academic historical materialist), the philosopher Jeff Noonan. As noted in a previous post, Professor Noonan makes the following statement in relation to employees at a university (from Thinkings 4: Collected Interventions, Readings, Evocations, 2014-2015, page 13): Instead, all members of the institution– faculty, librarians, … Continue reading The Poverty of Academic Leftism, Part Five: Middle-Class Delusions
The Toronto Airport Workers’ Council (TAWC): One Step Forward and Two Steps Backward?
This was written around six years ago; it is still relevant. I thought it appropriate, on May 1, the International Workers' Day, to refer to something that disturbed me on Facebook yesterday--a post by the Toronto Airport Workers' Council (TAWC), which included some remarks (and a video) by Howard Eng. Howard Eng is the CEO … Continue reading The Toronto Airport Workers’ Council (TAWC): One Step Forward and Two Steps Backward?
The 2018 West-Virginia Teachers’ Strike and a Socialist Movement
The social-reformist left like to claim that what they are interested in is class struggle from below--the self-organization of the working class that opposes the power of the class of employers. In a podcast, David Camfield's analysis of the West Virginia teachers strike is an example of such a claim by the social-reformist left (This … Continue reading The 2018 West-Virginia Teachers’ Strike and a Socialist Movement
The Abolitionary 