
Alan Sears is a writer and activist who teaches sociology at Ryerson. He is an editorial associate of New Socialist webzine and the co-author (with James Cairms) of The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty-First Century (University of Toronto Press). His new book is The Next New Left: A History of the Future (Fernwood Publishing).
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Who Speaks Socialism These Days?
A lament for the loss of the language of socialism spurs a tribute to the other languages of freedom.
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Tender thoughts on hockey and masculinity
Is it possible to separate the pleasures of pro sports from a masculinity that is rooted in the degradation of women and queer people?
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The Canadian Cult of the Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship holds no answers for the problems faced by young people today.
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Season’s Hauntings
What if instead of Scrooge, the ghosts of past, present, and future haunted his exploited clerk Bob Cratchit?
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OKComrade
Will you be my comrade? On comradeship and the relationships that sustain, nurture, and inform activism.
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Generation War or Generational Justice?
Generational justice will be key to any escape from the sinkhole of 3 decades of neoliberalism.
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Passion capitalism on campus
Last year, Ryerson University, where I teach, won a Passion Capitalist Award. When I first saw this posted on the university website, I thought the Ryerson public relations machine might be dabbling in satire. Sadly, this was real.
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Anti-fascist fitness?
The fitness industry and the obesity panic are two sides of the same coin, both signs of a serious contempt for the body – at least in its natural state.
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Thomas Mulcair should drop acid
I know it sounds desperate, but a hallucination or two might open up his mind a bit. Perhaps he’ll realize that he who plays good cop forges his own hand cuffs.
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Turning the tide
The Conservatives won a majority in the recent federal election with a very simple core message. On the basis of their economic agenda and tough-on-crime program, Stephen Harper presented his party as the safe choice in difficult times.