Ribbon Skirts and Mutual Aid
Patty Krawec on vital Indigenous practices that defy colonial forces of assimilation and show us the power of mutual aid.
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May 27, 2023
If Not Now, When?
How might we say no to shortcuts, but yes to fresh experiments in building new organizational forms on the left?
April 25, 2023
What are the Police? What is Abolition?
Tapji Garba on the relationship between police power and the state, and what it might tell us about how to fight for abolition.
February 22, 2023
Revolutionary Possibilities Bloom When Migrants Fight Back
S. K. Hussan on the fight for permanent residency rights for 1.7 million migrants in the Canadian state – a case study in building revolutionary organizing.
January 30, 2023
Socialists at City Hall
Andrea Pinochet-Escudero on possibilities awakened and capacities built during the VOTE Socialist electoral bid for municipal office in Vancouver.
January 12, 2023
Beyond the Rituals of Class Compromise
John Clarke on the need to move beyond the demobilizing compromise between capital and organized labour that developed in the post-war period, with its rules of engagement that no longer serve the working class.
January 4, 2023
Why We Need Mass Movement Climate Justice Politics
David Camfield on competing strategic visions of the fight for climate justice today, and why mass movements are indispensable. Excerpted from the new book Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.
December 27, 2022
Beyond Decriminalization, Towards Reproductive Justice: We Are Still Fighting in South Korea
Na Young, an organizer with the South Korean sexual rights and reproductive justice centre SHARE, on building coalitions to transform abortion’s volatile, precarious legal status into substantive access to reproductive care.
December 13, 2022
Notes from Argentina: What’s Under Attack When Abortion Rights are Under Attack?
Paula Varela on the struggle for safe, free, and legal abortion in Argentina, and what’s lost when forces on the left don’t resist the populist construction of an opposition between gender and “the People.” Translated from Spanish by Dawn Marie Paley.
November 25, 2022
Defiant Ontario Education Workers are Showing Us How It’s Done
The pandemic has reinforced capitalist governments’ belief that they can get away with absolutely anything. But Ontario education workers’ defiance of strikebreaking legislation is demonstrating how even the state’s vast power has limits – when workers unite.
November 6, 2022