Is international development dead?
Bags of sorghum grain delivered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Sudan, 2021. Photo courtesy USAID/X. Does anyone remember the Sustainable Development Goals? ...
Chris Webb
To build solidarity with Palestine, Canada’s labour movement must look to the past
UAW-Canada President Bob White and South African anti-apartheid activist Archie Sibeko (Zola Zembe) at the founding convention of the UAW-Canada, 1985. Photo by Murray Mosher. Th...
John Saul and the meaning of solidarity
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…