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Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser
Monday, 9 June, 2025
Join our live show Friday June 13 6PM - Royal Canadian Legion #1, 116 7 Ave SE, Calgary - Free Entry - Register here! Public sector pensions are one of the hard-won victories of the 20th century labour movement, but they did not come through the neoliberal era unchanged. They are now managed like any other investment fund and are implicated in all the faults of global capital. Union researcher Tom Fraser joins Team Advantage to discuss the political economy of pension funds and the forgotten horizons of revolutionary possibility they once represented.Check out Tom's new book - Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future Other works mentioned by Tom: Maple Revolutionaries - The Economist The North will rise again: pensions, politics and power in the 1980s - Jeremy Rifkin Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism - Quinn Slobodian Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism - Kwame Nkrumah Related Advantage Episodes: Kenney’s Great Albertan Pension Robbery
