The LPPS has endorsed the London Coalition for Sustainable Cities, and we fully support the work they’ve been doing, with others, in promoting the campaign to save the Meadowlily Woods environmentally sensitive area. Londoners need to get behind these campaigns, which are not only important for moral reasons, but also stand a good chance of […]
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Those who haven’t been to an LPPS meeting for awhile may be interested in an update on our activities. So here it is.
Since our formal founding meeting (October 2007), we have had several “regular general meetings” (or RGMs). These RGMs have never had fewer than 8 people in attendance, and never more than about 15. […]
What’s the Point of Having a Revolutionary Strategy?
Published June 1st, 2008 in LPPS Blog. 920 CommentsOne of the things that distinguishes a “radical” activist from a more broadly “progressive” activist is that the radical looks ahead to the transition to another kind of society, and acts today with those more distant possibilities constantly in view. Already in 1848, in the Communist Manifesto, Marx made this point very clearly. What distinguishes […]
SEIU and UNITE-HERE Make Secret Deals with Employers
Published May 10th, 2008 in LPPS Blog. 1309 CommentsThe Wall Street Journal reports that the officials of two of the largest private-sector unions in North America have entered into secret agreements with employers (notorious food service ‘outsource’ corporations Sodexho and Aramark), which “give the companies the right to designate which of their locations, and how many workers, the unions can seek to organize” […]
Putting the Food Crisis in Political Perspective
Published May 8th, 2008 in LPPS Blog. 1236 CommentsAccording to UNICEF, about 30,000 children die each day within the world capitalist system due to easily preventable conditions related to poverty and malnutrition. But the longstanding failures of the system to feed those who live under it — for the simple but shocking reason that feeding some people is simply not profitable for the […]
Canada: Report Documents 25 yrs of Income Redistribution from the Poor to the Rich
Published May 4th, 2008 in LPPS Blog. 0 CommentsAccording to a new report from Statistics Canada, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. That may be no surprise. But the scale of the injustice, and its persistence for a quarter century, is remarkable. According to the report: “Between 1980 and 2005, median earnings among the top 20% of full-time […]
Nancy Holmstrom, a long-time socialist feminist activist/intellectual in the U.S., recently gave a talk in Toronto on the topic of the “Socialist-Feminism, Then and Now,” the text of which is available on the web site of New Socialist magazine. In her talk, Holmstrom offers both a useful historical survey of the early years of (2nd […]
