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• Will Escaping Americans Test Canada’s Capacity for Sympathy?
  17 October 2020, by Leo Panitch

  When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, I started hearing from American friends that they were thinking of migrating to Canada. Sensing that most of them didn’t really mean it, I would joke in response that we would “build a wall and make you pay for it.” And I sometimes reminded them that Canada had more often been the refuge for those escaping the overthrow of reactionary regimes. A good many white people in Apartheid South African used to refer to Toronto as “To-run-to.”
  Especially since the (...)

• Why is the Israeli Military Still Recruiting in Canada?
  19 October 2020, by Yves Engler

  For three quarters of a century Canadians have been recruited inside this country to fight in Israel’s military
  There’s a Canadian law that makes it illegal for the armed forces of any foreign state to recruit soldiers within our borders, but you’d never know it the way Israel and its supporters operate within this country.
  The Foreign Enlistment Actstates:
  Any person who, within Canada, recruits or otherwise induces any person or body of persons to enlist or to accept any commission or (...)

• How Can Socialists Help Stop Trump?
  31 October 2020, by Eric Blanc and Leo Panitch

  Eric Blanc interviews Leo Panitch about the upcoming presidential election in the US.
  Eric Blanc (EB): I would love to hear your take on the question of whether or not socialists should be voting and/or campaigning for Joe Biden.
  For me, I’ve really had a hard time squaring the circle on this, because on the one hand, it seems clear to me that another Trump presidency would be a disaster for our side and, on the other hand, I don’t really clearly see how we can advocate a vote for Biden (...)

• Internationalism or Extinction
  5 October 2020, by Noam Chomsky

  Returning to the major crises we face at this historic moment, all are international, and two internationals are forming to confront them. One is opening today: the Progressive International. The other has been taking shape under the leadership of Trump’s White House, a Reactionary International comprising the world’s most reactionary states.
  We are meeting at a remarkable moment, a moment that is, in fact, unique in human history, a moment both ominous in portent and bright with hopes for a (...)

• How Low Can a Country Go?
  30 October 2020, by Vinod Mubayi

  How low can the country go? To what moral depths can the “world’s largest democracy” descend? These questions emerge naturally in the aftermath of two horrific events: the rape and killing of a young Dalit woman in Hathras, UP and its cover up by the state police as well as the arrest of an 83-year old priest Father Stan Swamy on charges so preposterous they strain credulity.
  These questions are not directed at the authorities: the perpetrators of these atrocious acts that can only be (...)