Back Issues

  • May/June 2012

    In this issue of Briarpatch Fathima Cader looks at the Conservative government’s efforts to enlist public support for the booming business of deportation. First-time Briarpatch contributor Mike Krebs explains what’s behind Canada’s unconditional support for Israel, and its role as an architect of apartheid. Plus, the long-awaiting creative writing contest winners!

  • March/April 2012

    With the country’s largest reserves of oil, natural gas, uranium, and potash, much of which is found on Indigenous land, the Prairies will continue to be at the front lines of capitalist expansion for years to come, and are poised to become a hub of resistance. In this issue, Briarpatch imagines the West as a different kind of “land of opportunity.”

  • January/February 2012

    In this issue of Briarpatch, we’re all over the place — from Canadian mining in El Salvador to the sexual politics of roller derby here at home. Jane Kirby investigates the role of community organizations when governments offload responsibility for social services, while Harsha Walia reflects on the role of non-native activists in decolonization. Plus: the Occupy movements in photos, the injustice of Canada’s Extradition Act and more!

  • November/December 2011

    Striking back

    The right to strike has been steadily undermined in recent years by coercive labour legislation. What is the future of the labour movement’s most time-honoured tactic? Is it time for the labour movement to start breaking the rules, as government and industry have been doing for decades?

  • September/October 2011

    Decolonizing food

    Our agricultural and food systems embody considerable potential for the powerful and the marginalized alike. Because it is essential to our very existence, those who control food control people. And when we reclaim control over these systems, we open up the possibility of asserting our power in other spheres as well.

  • July/August 2011

    In defence of a Muslim takeover

    From anti-migrant hysteria to Indigenous rights, police infiltration, neoliberal austerity, and the so-called liberation of Afghanistan, this issue of Briarpatch covers it all — investigative journalism, essays and articles to inspire and incite.