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    Revolutionary dreamwork

    Today’s left wins when we challenge the right’s cruel and exclusionary imagination with more just, more beautiful world-making projects of our own.

    by Daniel Karasik – 9 min read

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    Fighting antisemitism today

    by Daniel Karasik – 12 min read

    Why did IfNotNow Toronto have to defend their antisemitism training against other Jews? The answer lies in the left and the right’s competing definitions of antisemitism.

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    The city vs. Big Tech

    by Nabeel Ahmed – 15 min read

    Activists kicked Amazon’s HQ2 out of New York City. They ran Google’s new campus out of Berlin. Now, in Toronto, #BlockSidewalk wants to send Google – and their new “smart city” – packing. The battle against Big Tech is emerging as the new front in the fight for the right to the city.

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    AMLO’s contradiction

    by José Luis Granados Ceja – 13 min read

    Mexico’s new president promised “the end of neoliberalism.” But as he forces through megaprojects and steamrolls over Indigenous dissent, activists are beginning to understand that anti-neoliberal doesn’t always mean anti-capitalist.

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    Call for submissions (January/February)

    by Saima Desai – 2 min read

    We’re looking for writing rooted in rooted in anti-colonial, anti-capitalist struggle for an unthemed issue. Pitches are due September 1, 2019.

  • Magazine

    AMLO’s contradiction

    by José Luis Granados Ceja – 13 min read

    Mexico’s new president promised “the end of neoliberalism.” But as he forces through megaprojects and steamrolls over Indigenous dissent, activists are beginning to understand that anti-neoliberal doesn’t always mean anti-capitalist.

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    The rise of the real estate state

    by Yutaka Dirks – 5 min read

    Whose interests guide the state apparatus that sets the parameters of city development? Yutaka Dirks reviews Samuel Stein’s Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.

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    The Indigenous nation exposing the lie of Canada’s “world class” oil spill response

    by Andrea Palframan – 4 min read

    A 2016 diesel spill exposed holes in Canada’s touted “world class” oil spill response regime. At a sentencing hearing today, Canada gave the company a slap on the wrist; but the Heiltsuk nation is fighting for real justice.

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The fight to halt the construction of a new migrant detention centre in Laval. The women activists who are setting out to transform electoral politics in Canada. How the techlash is getting organized in Toronto. Is voting really “harm reduction”?

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