CD editorial board: Statement on the resignations
This is a statement by a majority of the members of the Canadian Dimension editorial board regarding the resignations of several members last month. A dissenting view by CD founder…
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Living socialism today: Remembering Leo Panitch
Leo Panitch (1945-2020) at The World Transformed 2018 in Liverpool. Photo by Kevin Walsh/Wikimedia Commons. Standing outside a conference with a group of devotees, a famous political scientist brags that…
Build a Better City – The Ultimate Reality Show
The worlds biggest reality challenge – two groups of 10,000 workers in 100 groups of 100 each face of to see who can build the better city on two separate…
Sam Gindin on Leo Panitch
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, lifelong friends, comrades, and collaborators. In this wide-ranging interview, members of the Canadian Dimension editorial committee spoke with Sam Gindin, a lifelong friend, comrade, and…
Jesse Vorst: Survivor, teacher, humanitarian
Jesse Vorst (1940-2020), Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba. Image by Canadian Dimension. Jesse Vorst was a member of the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba…
Remembering Leo Panitch—an iconic figure of the Canadian left
Leo Panitch (1945-2020), Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The numerous writings and comments spurred by Leo Panitch’s death have expressed shock, grief, gratitude and…
Socialist savant: Leo Panitch (1945-2020)
Leo Panitch (1945-2020), Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. Image by Canadian Dimension. Families help to make us what we are, even if we turn out to be not…
Leo Panitch and the socialist project
Leo Panitch (1945-2020), Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. Photo courtesy of LeftEast. The death of Leo Panitch has made the world a darker place. His writings have carried…
Freedom stops when work starts
Share this article: Dmitri Sotnikov Dmitri Sotnikov is a software developer with an interest in progressive politics. Dmitri believes that we must strive for a world with justice and equality…
first celebrate, then organize: good things that happened in the 2020 u.s. election
United States Vice Presidents After the positive result in the US election, so many of my fellow leftists refuse to find joy in the occasion. They seem determined to not…
Introducing Progressive International—a global left wing solidarity movement
The Progressive International is an international organization uniting and mobilizing progressive left-wing activists and organizations. The International labels itself as aiming for a post-capitalist society. Image courtesy of Progressive International.…
Socialism, Communism, and Liberalism
Watching American political dramas like their presidential elections is both entertaining and frightening. Yet it is also strangely educational. it has taught me a basic tenet: Americans as a people…
Help Dimitri Lascaris build Canada’s Eco-Socialist Future
Winnipeg, April 24, 2019: Dimitri Lascaris speaking at a forum on Canada’s mistaken policy regarding Venezuela. Photo: Paul S. Graham Canada’s Green Party is electing a leader to replace Elizabeth…
rotd: love and labor in alliance
Revolutionary thought of the day: Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will be socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation. It…
Who Are The CIA?
Who are the CIA? This will tell you everything you need to know. Here’s where things really started to go wrong: 1947, the National Security Act, which created the National…
Eric Hobsbawm’s Century
Eric Hobsbawm during a lecture at the Central European University, 1993. Photo from Twitter. Were the British Marxist historians a coherent lot, congealed in the sameness of their affiliation to…
Solidarity and Trauma in the 24th Century: The Politics of ‘Star Trek: Picard’
Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard. Image by James Dimmock/CBS Interactive. Star Trek is back, and its new series Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, asks explicitly political questions. What does it mean…
what i’m reading: political graphic nonfiction: wobblies, studs terkel’s working, people’s history of american empire
Continuing the series, started here. I’ve decided not to review these books, but instead to post a cover image and a quote. It was difficult to choose quotes for these…
In Memoriam: Mark Golden
Mark Golden, professor emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Winnipeg (1948-2020). Image created by Krishna Lalbiharie. Father. Professor. Partner. Friend. Son. Mentor. Ally. Scholar. Teacher. Uncle.…
what i’m reading: political graphic nonfiction: emma goldman, muhammad ali, eugene v. debs
I have been collecting graphic nonfiction with leftist political themes. I just love these books and am indulging myself in buying them. I was planning to review them, but I’ve…