John Shannon Saul was a Canadian political economist and socialist solidarity activist whose academic work focused on liberation struggles in southern Africa. He died last year in September. John Shannon Saul, the writer, scholar, and solidarity activist died in Toronto on September 23, 2023. He leaves behind a rich scholarly
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Canadian Dimension: Pandemic lessons for rebuilding Canada’s welfare state
Photo by Tania Liu/Flickr In what now seems like a distant memory, the early stages of the pandemic gave rise to a host of hopeful prognostications about the urgency of rebuilding of our social safety net. Arundathi Roy envisioned portals to potentially more humane futures. Even the Economist called for
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Canadian internationalists and the people’s war against apartheid
Vigil for the victims of apartheid in South Africa, 1988. Photo by Peter Power, Toronto Star Archives. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library Digital Archives. International Brigade Against Apartheid: Secrets of the War that Liberated South Africa Edited by Ronnie Kasrils Jacana Media, 2021 Histories of radical internationalism are often dominated
Continue readingCanadian Dimension | Articles: Hidden histories and political legacies of the Canadian anti-apartheid movement
This piece originally appeared in the March-April (2014) issue of Canadian Dimension magazine. Subscribe or buy previous issues HERE. One could be forgiven for thinking that graying Tories were the vanguard of Canada’s anti-apartheid efforts after witnessing the official delegation to Mandela’s memorial. It is a cruel irony of history
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Reviving Alternative Media in an Age of Precarity
After graduating from both university and community college, completing five internships, writing furious freelance pieces and part-timing at a few magazines, I realized there wasn’t much of a future out there for aspiring and critical young writers. It was a difficult and bitter realization, but one that thousands of others
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