Building on the Battle of Billings Bridge
Brian McDougall on new possibilities for mass anti-fascist organizing after the siege of Ottawa, in that city and beyond.
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February 24, 2022
Fascism is as Canadian as the Maple Leaf
Todd Gordon on the far right in the Canadian state: its histories, the economic and political developments behind its resurgence today, and building the fight against it.
February 19, 2022
To Be Good Kin
Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer Patty Krawec on settlers who seek belonging through “becoming Native,” and how claiming unwanted kin can help settlers move towards real solidarity with Indigenous peoples.
February 14, 2022
Labour Solidarity with Palestine is Non-Negotiable
Moe Alqasem and Hassan Husseini on the need for the Canadian labour movement to escalate beyond performative, symbolic solidarity in its support of Palestinian liberation struggle.
February 4, 2022
Palestinian Liberation as Climate Justice
Rawan Nabil on climate vulnerability in Palestine, and the need to understand the struggle against Israeli apartheid as a climate justice struggle.
January 29, 2022
Click to Collectivize! Trending Ways to Reclaim Your Labour Power from Digital Media (Dis)Content!
Christine H. Tran on cultural work, labour organizing under digital capitalism, and collective alternatives to the entrepreneurial ethos of “do what you love.”
January 21, 2022
Against Pandemic Realism
Capital and the state have convinced so many of us that there's no alternative to the eugenics of mass infection. How do we escalate and sustain a mass politics with the power to overcome that kind of deadly “common sense”?
January 6, 2022
Festivals of the Possible
Megan Kinch on the Occupy movement, which erupted 10 years ago: its particular blend of spontaneity, organization, and technology; the forms it took in Toronto and elsewhere in Canada; and its mixed legacies. A personal and political reflection.
December 21, 2021
Family and Future
Sinead Petrasek on how the sanctity of the family is invoked often to protect white supremacy and settler dominance – and the critical role of socialist organizing, past and present, in the struggle against such oppression.
October 28, 2021
Life-making or Death-making?
Susan Ferguson on how the pandemic has laid bare the social reproduction labour that keeps capitalism churning, the fundamental violence of the capitalist system itself, and emerging possibilities for fighting back.
October 17, 2021