Yes, you can bet the rent money on Leap.
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…
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Marxist scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood had a towering intellect
Image from Public Domain Barely five feet tall but considered an intellectual giant, Marxist scholar and political science professor Ellen Meiksins Wood was instrumental in making Toronto’s York University a…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- The Guardian's editorial board comments on the role public entrepreneurship should play in fostering economic development and avoiding bust cycles:The state’s only legitimate…
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Civil Society’
Photo by Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung In Memoriam Ellen Meiksins Wood 1942-2016 The death of Ellen Meiksins Wood on January 14, 2016 represents an immense loss for socialists everywhere. As a frequent…
Of course ‘socialism’ was most-searched term of 2015: its ideas fit our times
Illustration by DonkeyHotey There is a decisive mood of resistance in America – a backlash to the status quo. The Bernie Sanders campaign for president is capturing that mood, and…
Questions for the Canadian left
Harper is gone, but (as a friend only quarter-jokingly said) we got the second worst outcome sold as the best, so now what? That’s the 10 second version of this…
What is the Left Bloc? | Esquerda
In this article, we shall present information which allows the reader to get a clear picture of how and in which political climate the Left Bloc was founded and how…
Guest Post by Mimi Williams: When the NDP abandoned its socialist principles, it abandoned its chance of winning
PHOTOS: Federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair – whatever was he thinking? Below: Guest Post author Mimi Williams; Jeremy Corbyn, new leader of Britain’s Labour Party. Many New Democrats were shocked…
Bernie Sanders: socialism, anarchism, corporatism and democracy
I support Senator Bernie Sanders in his candidacy to become the next US president. I would very much like to see him win, and I think he very may well.…
Bernie Sanders: socialism, anarchism, corporatism and democracy
I support Senator Bernie Sanders in his candidacy to become the next US president. I would very much like to see him win, and I think he very may well.…
Bernie Sanders would win – if US elections weren’t controlled by big money….. But he just might win anyway, and he is well on his way
The Independent Senator from Vermont, and US Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, is riding a fast-growing wave of popular support across the United States. Sanders is getting ten times the turn-out…
I Have Nothing To Add To This
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Mulcair: Canada’s pseudo Johnny Appleseed.
Tom Mulcair’s role for Canada’s New Democrats seems to include wearing a forced smile and offering band-aid solutions to problems. Other than his strange arithmetic about day care, he is…
NDP changing times, changing directions.
The CCF—the party of Tommy Douglas—represented the working man, the farmer and the socially conscious in an era of rapid growth and acquisition after the Second World War. We had…
New Paths Toward 21st Century Socialism
Artwork by Konstantin Vyalov (1932) Introduction by Richard Fidler Among the many panels and plenaries at the Conference of the Society for Socialist Studies, which met in Ottawa June 2-5,…
wmtc 2015-06-21 17:00:00
I stumbled on this letter to the New York Times Book Review from a few weeks ago. It’s in response to a review of two books about precarious work –…
Creating an Economy of Need in Greece
Filed under: Europe Tagged: Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Socialism, Syriza
‘There is no Alternative Unless We Build One’: Reinventing Socialist Politics
Photo by Pasu Au Yeung 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…
Want to Rebuild the Left? Take Socialism Seriously
Equal Love rally in Melbourne • Photo by Socialist Alternative As the sun set on the Occupy Seattle encampment in December 2011, the question “What next?” hung in the air,…