Unmanned aerial vehicle in Israeli military service. Photo by the Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons. On January 3, 2020, Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani was assassinated by a US-operated drone attack in Baghdad, Iraq, while on his way to meet with the country’s prime minister. Soleimani was then-head of the Islamic Revolutionary
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Canadian Dimension: Broad front or false front?
Promotional artwork for the Rage Against the War Machine rally, held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on February 19, 2022. On February 19, no fewer than 1,000 protestors converged in Washington, DC for the Rage Against the War Machine rally, in opposition to the escalation of US support
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: What was the Freedom Convoy?
Trucks in downtown Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy protest. Photo by Maksim Sokolov/Wikimedia Commons. It’s been a dizzying few weeks in Canadian politics. As the Emergencies Act is revoked, the trucks roll out of Ottawa, and provincial governments across Canada capitulate to the demands of the Freedom Convoy, dropping mask
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The perils of left populism
Downtown Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy protest. Photo courtesy Freedom Convoy 2022/Facebook. This article is a response to “What the Left can learn from the ‘Freedom Convoy’,” by Emma Jackson, published in The Breach on February 2, 2022. As the contradictions between classes sharpen in a crisis, so too do
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Why vote Communist?
A vote for the Communist Party of Canada is not going to send them to parliament anytime soon, but it will expand the political imaginary of this election, writes CPC candidate Cam Scott. Photo from Twitter. Nobody wanted this election—that is, a Communist ‘nobody,’ subtracted from the Communist ‘everybody’—which is
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Trump’s 1776 Commission: Cultural renewal by political repression
President Donald Trump speaks during a Constitution Day speech in which he said he would sign an executive order promoting “patriotic education,” September 17, 2020. Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian/The White House. In one of the most tumultuous months of one of the most telling presidencies in the history of
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: American Dharma does the devil’s work too well
American Dharma Errol Morris Utopia, 2019 Perhaps American Dharma, the new feature-length interview between filmmaker Errol Morris and right-wing propagandist Stephen Bannon, should never have been made. Across the world, no-platform campaigns have starved far-right celebrities to a minimum of influence, such that whenever Bannon, the self-proclaimed populist strategist credited
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: CMHR: The Unbearable Lightness of Inclusion
Graphic by Krishna Lalbihaire. Few buildings in Winnipeg, or Canada, have been as contested prior to their construction, let alone their opening, as the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Plagued with controversy — rather, witlessly courting it — its edifice has been lurking on the horizon for years, while critique
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