Demonstration against Jean Charest’s Bill 78, 2012 • Photo by Fightback/La Riposte If there is a single theme that has distinguished left politics in Canada and Québec at least since…
Photo by Roger Blackwell The varied left histories dating back to the long 19th century gained momentum during the tumultuous first decades of the 20th century and for some time…
‘The Hand That Will Rule the World’ by Ralph Chaplin, Solidarity, June 30, 1917. The following is excerpted from Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution, edited by Gregory Albo and Leo…
For those of us long enough in the tooth to recall what it was like ‘way back when’, there is sometimes a distinct whiff of something like the old sectarianism…
L. B. Foote / Winnipeg Free Press Archives1919 StrikeCrowd gathers at Victoria Park Sometime in the 1990s, it became fashionable for many socialists to refer to themselves as “anti-capitalists.” I’m…
The ascendant Workers’ Party has learned to punch above its weight. Source: The party that’s pulling the Belgian left to the left – POLITICO Filed under: Socialism Tagged: Belgium, Far…
In a much condemned political schtick by actor-director Clint Eastwood at the Republican National Convention in 2012, he talked to an empty chair. The chair was supposed to represent President…
Tonight we watched “Before the Flood“, Leonardo DiCaprio’s film about climate change, which I had heard such good things about. It’s well done, and is chock full of appropriately terrifying…
More than any ruler I can think of, Fidel Castro defies our insistence on seeing leaders as solely either good or evil. As this excellent assessment in Social Worker (UK)…
Here is a link to my review of an extremely interesting new book by Guardian economics and political columnist Paul Mason. “Paul Mason is a leading British economic journalist, currently…
Photo by Paul Sableman Paul Mason is a leading British economic journalist, currently a columnist for The Guardian. He is also a long time left political activist. His new book,…
Photo by Matt Jiggins While not a topic without coverage, the question of socialism within the New Democratic Party — and Canada more generally — tends to come in waves.…
In analyzing where Canada’s New Democrats are headed, we took another look at the LEAP Manifesto. Frankly LEAP stumbles on the first hurdle. It reads like the Regina Manifesto without…
Image by Krishna Lalbiharie Canadian Dimension Magazine was proud to launch our new book, Canada Since 1960: A People’s History at the Imperial Pub in Toronto on June 7th. Moderated…
L-R, James Lorimer, Nahanni Fontaine, Cy Gonick, Arthur Schafer and Jim Silver • Photo by Krishna Lalbiharie Winnipeg, June 10, 2016 — First published in 1963, Canadian Dimension is Canada’s…
Photo from Public Domain JOHN CLARKE, organizer, member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Neither of my parents had any major interest in politics, but they were both deeply affected…
This is The Proclamation. The Proclamation was read by Padraig (Patrick) Pearse outside the General Post Office in Dublin on April 24, 1916. This marked the beginning of the Easter…
On the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, these Revolutionary Thoughts of the Day are brought to you by the great Irish socialist, James Connolly.The day has passed for patching…
Why do so many political writers believe that groupthink is achieved by constantly rewriting history? Never a fan of Ed Broadbent or the Broadbent Institute, it was still dismaying the…
One of our favourite bloggers insists that you should not bet the rent money on the Leap Manifesto. While agreeing that no gambler should ever bet the rent money, we…
