Co-operatives and Liberation, not necessarily in that order
The pandemic offers an instructive lesson: individual action towards a social goal, in the absence of a social effort to coordinate the actions of all, is meaningless. As individuals we can pursue certain types of goals – we can perhaps build a garden, write a play, bake a pie, etc, but we cannot end poverty […]
Read More Thinking the Pandemic: Compliance and FreedomThis past weekend I travelled to Ottawa to attend four days of workshops, seminars, lectures, assemblies, and conversations concerning social and political issues. I attended sessions on global inequality, guaranteed minimum income, the state of the left since ww1, co-operative self-management, the 2012 student strike, quebec independence as resistance to neo-liberalism, the coup in Egypt, […]
Read More 2014 Peoples’ Social Forum and the Anglophone/Francophone Political Gap
Only a Northern Song 