C.J. Atkins
LATEST ARTICLES BY C.J. Atkins
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The new revolution in socialism: LGBTQ rights in Vietnam and Cuba
June 22, 2018Each of these two nations is perhaps moving closer to their aspirations where exploitation and oppression of any kind are relegated to the past.
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Despite Trump’s record, there are positives from the Korea summit
June 12, 2018Even broken clocks are right twice a day, and at least for now, Trump is telling the right time when it comes to Korea.
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What would count as “success” at the Trump-Kim summit?
June 11, 2018If some progress is achieved in Singapore tomorrow, it should indeed be welcomed. Holding your breath waiting for a dramatic breakthrough, however, might not be advisable.
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Ontario election: Cheap beer and tax cuts win it for Doug Ford
June 8, 2018In a performance that would have made his late brother Rob (the former Toronto mayor of cocaine fame) proud, Doug Ford sailed to power presenting himself as a “Man of the People.”
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Sabotaging the summit: Trump administration sinks N. Korea meeting
May 24, 2018Peace on the Korean peninsula has been scuttled by an unpredictable leader and his belligerent regime, and I don't mean the one in Pyongyang.
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Karl Marx at 200
May 4, 2018The material conditions of life are prompting people to question the system, to ask why things are the way they are. It's little wonder, then, that Marx is making a comeback.
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“There will be no more war”: Time for U.S. troops to leave Korea
April 27, 2018Trump is trying to take credit, but this is all the work of the Korean people themselves.
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Making time for Marx, not just the market
April 25, 2018A directive from Xi Jinping to study The Communist Manifesto suggests that in the world’s biggest country, the market still has to give way to Marx, or at least some version of him.
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