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"I have no country to fight for; my country is the Earth, and I am a citizen of the World." - Eugene V. Debs
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Wednesday, January 06, 2021
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Sunday, December 06, 2020
Inequality
In 2018, just 17 global financial conglomerates collectively managed $41.1 trillion, more than half the GDP of the entire planet.
That same year, the richest one percent of humanity, led by 36 million millionaires and 2,400 billionaires, controlled more than half of the world’s wealth while the bottom 80 percent had to make do with just 4.5 percent of this wealth.
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Friday, November 27, 2020
Read Imagine Now
The latest issue of Imagine, the magazine of the Socialist Party of Canada, is now online here.
The contents include articles on pandemic, the ‘debt bomb,’ indigenous peoples and the environment, hydro power, the history of radical publishing, alternative communities, religion and one by yours truly on the Black Loyalists, the slaves who fought on the side of the British during the American War of Independence and who had to flee to Nova Scotia.
Monday, November 02, 2020
William Morris and BLM
William Morris Society in the United States
Statement in support of Black Lives Matter
‘I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.’
--William Morris, ‘The Lesser Arts’, 1882
‘Times of change, disruption, and revolution are naturally times of hope also.’
--William Morris, ‘The Hopes of Civilization’, 1888
As a Society bearing the name of William Morris, who worked tirelessly to create a more just and beautiful world, we acknowledge our responsibility to fight against racial injustice. We pledge to examine our policies and programming to explore how they could better honor William Morris’s legacy. We will work to increase the diversity of our membership and of our governing committee. The William Morris Society in the United States believes Black Lives Matter.