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.
Patty Krawec on vital Indigenous practices that defy colonial forces of assimilation and show us the power of mutual aid.
How might we say no to shortcuts, but yes to fresh experiments in building new organizational forms on the left?
Tapji Garba on the relationship between police power and the state, and what it might tell us about how to fight for abolition.
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.
Andrea Pinochet-Escudero on possibilities awakened and capacities built during the VOTE Socialist electoral bid for municipal office in Vancouver.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.