Word: canadas
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...have agreed on a platform that advocates Keynesian economic tactics coordinated by and rooted in longer-term industrial planning. Both organizations see industrial planning as essential if Canada is to protect its resources, diversify its economy and use its manpower effectively. But while industrial planning is one thing, an industrial plan is quite another. To date, no one has proposed anything resembling a comprehensive plan...
Leaders of both groups have concentrated on elite politics, but in failing to politicize their memberships, both organizations have underscored their own weaknesses. The lack of a strong political culture in Canada has to labor's relatively low political status, a state of affairs recently highlighted by the capitulation of Canadian postal workers to the federal government over the issue of the postal workers' right to strike...
Labor can only increase its power by either loosening the organizational constraints keeping the leadership's sphere of potential actions from shifting to the left, or by the leaders themselves adopting a more leftist ideological orientation. Canada's worsening economy promises to provide fertile soil for the increased politicization of working people and the adoption of more militant postures to protect hard-pressed rights and gains. The extent to which the Canadian left can stimulate renewed political interest, and perhaps more importantly, the extent to which renewed political interest stimulates the Canadian left, will jointly determine the fate of progressive...
Just as Canadian workers are becoming more politically aware as economic problems increasingly plague Canadian society, Canada's students are showing more interest in promoting social and political change in their country. The recent upsurge in Canadian student activism creates a stark contrast to the relative complacency of their counterparts in the United States. The gradual radicalization of the students has played a crucial role in the left-wing politics of Canada, because students provide an important academic base for the working-class movement and help legitimize left-wing demands...
Consider, for instance, some of the NUS demands: increased student aid until all student fees are abolished, systematic national planning of education, elimination of financial barriers preventing international students from studying in Canada, greater affirmative action policies in the realm of education, and the elimination of unemployment in Canada through government creation of jobs. These issues, especially the demand for full employment, indicate a concrete student-worker alliance that may have great ramifications in Canada. In many West European nations? particularly Italy and France--it is this alliance that has effectively challenged the idea that capitalism is the best...