Austerity, the Conservative Majority and the Canadian Labour Congress Action Plan
Submitted on June 19, 2011
By Mathew Nelson - June 17, 2011
...[E]ven in the midst of the largest financial crisis in history, there was an overall lack of discussion at the [Canadian Labour Congress] convention of an anti-capitalist politics and programme. The Workers Program, like the convention itself, failed to raise alternatives to capitalism. The general approach is increasingly embedded in business forms of unionism.
