The student movement is being treated as a single-issue by the mainstream media, and while one of the core demands is indeed for tuition to remain frozen, students have consistently framed and fought their struggle in broader social terms. The mov...
David Harvey addressed a crowd in the heart of London’s financial district early in November 2011. “We need to mobilize in such a way that we can genuinely threaten major commercial and financial interests,” Harvey said in his speech at Occupy Lon...
Provides a critical take on the 2011 Canadian federal election campaign, with specific emphasis upon continental integration, growing inequality and capitalist class rule.
Marxist scholar GM Tamás speaks with me about the failures of liberal democracy, and its anarchist, socialist and communist alternatives. Audio and transcript.
This is a trial-run of my M.A. thesis defence, presented to my committee on May 4.
Conducting a Literature Review
I developed this "how to" video for the Social Science Research Day at John Abbott College in Montreal, Quebec. The video presents a unique method for conducting academic literature reviews. Suggestions and critiques of the approach are highly encouraged.
One would think that the presidential election in post-Revolution Egypt resembles what takes place in democratic countries: except that Egypt is not a democracy
Diplomacy, also commonly thought of as an alternative to war, must be understood within the underlying context of the United States' efforts to reestablish its sphere of influence over Iran
Violent clashes between protesters staging a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry Headquarters in Cairo’s Abbasseya district and unknown assailants killed at least 20 people
My name is Matthew Brett. My master's research at Concordia University examines the class-based i... more
My name is Matthew Brett. My master's research at Concordia University examines the class-based implications of Canadian monetary policy between 1975 and 1991. My upcoming PhD work may focus on the G20 and its response to the crisis that began in 2007. You can reach me at: brett.matthew[at]yahoo.ca.
I currently publish most of my material with Cy Gonick and the team at Canadian Dimension and with Greg Albo, Pance Stojkovski and everyone at the Socialist Project. I also publish material with The Link, an independent student newspaper in Montreal.
Other research and writing interests include: Canadian foreign and domestic policy, international politics, environmentalism and political philosophy. I am actively involved in the Forum to Resist the Conservatives and the student movement here in Montreal.
