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Who is the NDP for?
Rule changes, hostile colleagues, and a lack of democracy – Anjali Appadurai, Kaitlyn Harvey, and Navjot Kaur share their experiences organizing and running with the NDP.
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Show me the socialists
The Democratic Socialists of America Canada Twitter account was fake – but its popularity was not. What’s the power of socialist branding to shape a movement?
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Politics for the present and for the future
In a recent article, Vijay Prashad argues that the challenge of the left is to be both present- and future-oriented at once. As the federal election looms, that’s what I’ve tried to do in this issue of Briarpatch.
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From community organizing to electoral politics
As we stare down a climate crisis and a hard-right political wave, women activists are setting out to transform electoral politics in Canada. But are the parties ready for them?
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Is voting really “harm reduction”?
People who say “voting is harm reduction” wrongly assume that in the lead-up to elections, all we can do is vote for the least-bad candidate or party.
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We will take this party back
To those who oppose us, young NDP organizers calling for Erin Weir’s resignation, I say: How dare you discourage young people from demanding a better party?
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Will Sask NDP support oil industry or Indigenous land rights?
Indigenous peoples and activists are expected to “wait and see” after Meili hires longtime oil industry manager as Chief of Staff.
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Dear Erin Weir, what are you doing?
Doubling down in the face of harassment allegations isn’t helping anyone.
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Can the NDP help millennials?
NDP MP Niki Ashton has wrapped up her national tour on the problem of precarious work facing millennials in Canada. Should we hold out hope for an NDP-led solution to working class precarity among young people?
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A note to Alberta’s grassroots about NDP governments
Alberta’s grassroots must carve out critical distance from the NDP.
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Election Day in Alberta – and Beyond
Electoral politics and grassroots movement building are often at odds; significant change in Alberta will hinge on independent organizing.
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What is to be done about the Ontario NDP?
Evaluating the provincial election and what’s next for Ontario’s left.
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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.