We (Still) Need a Left COVID Politics that Doesn’t Abandon People to Get Sick
Liberalism has abandoned the public to a fast-mutating viral threat. The left should offer a clear, systematic alternative.
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July 12, 2022
Indispensable
Kate Klein on a subtle source of activist burnout and what can be done about it.
May 26, 2022
The NDP-Liberal Deal is a Gift to the Hard Right
David Camfield on how the new cooperation deal between the New Democratic Party and the Liberal Party further winnows the Anglo-Canadian parliamentary field into a contest between the “liberal establishment” and the “conservative opposition,” with bad consequences for the left.
March 31, 2022
Feminist Resistance Against War
"War is irreconcilable with the essential values and goals of the feminist movement. We stand for peace, coexistence of peoples, and a democratic solution to conflicts." A statement by Feminist Anti-War Resistance.
March 17, 2022
No War But Class War
Midnight Sun is honoured to republish this statement by our comrades at LeftEast, condemning both Putin's imperial war against Ukraine and NATO's aggressive imperial expansion – and intransigently refusing the false choice between the two.
February 26, 2022
Scream and Plan
Daniel Sarah Karasik asks: how do we reconcile the urgency of today’s crises with the patient work needed to build the mass power that could transform them?
August 14, 2021
Resisting the Attack on Toronto’s Encampments
Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer John Clarke on the escalating fight to defend our unhoused neighbours.
July 26, 2021
Big Tech and “Cleaner” Fossil Fuels Won’t Save Us
David Camfield on the dead end of technocratic responses to climate crisis, and how only social movements can lead the way to climate justice.
June 2, 2021
Friends in Palestine, Has the Future Arrived?
Sharing a stirring vision of solidarity, G.N. Nithya writes to friends, comrades, and former neighbours in Palestine.
May 17, 2021