Resisting sectarianism, growing the left
We need to build emancipatory movements that can win without destroying the people involved
Category: Canadian Dimension
Canada’s shameful legacy of torture in Afghanistan
A Canadian soldier escorts an Afghan detainee, January 2004. Photo courtesy Department of National Defence. This essay was first published on several Canadian websites in April 2011, during an election … Read More
All must change utterly: We need a ‘People’s Green New Deal’
A review of Max Ajl’s new book, a “uniquely comprehensive report about climate change, its politics and injustices”
It’s time to make Canadian medicare truly universal
We need a new national plan that goes beyond hospitals to include pharmacare, homecare, dental and long-term residential care
Extractivism and resistance in Latin America
New edited collection analyzes the historical model that structures the economies, and political movements, of the region
How Jagmeet Singh and the NDP can stunt the Liberals’ majority hopes
Aivalis: This is a golden opportunity for Singh and the NDP, and they cannot blow it
Reimagining the left in times of crisis
New collection challenges and explores numerous paths out of the ecological wasteland capitalism is condemning us to
How Canada failed its farmers and agri-producers
An investigation into Canada’s corporate-dominated agri-sector and how it’s jeopardizing food security, workers and democracy
Canada’s failure in Afghanistan
A Chinook transport helicopter carrying Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper lands near Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 30, 2011. Photo by Yiorgos Karahalis. Content warning: This article contains violence that some readers … Read More
Our disastrous war in Afghanistan
Outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, 2010. Photo from Flickr. In two hours during the morning of September 11, 2001, 2,981 people were murdered when 19 hijackers crashed four airliners into the … Read More
Forced evictions near and far: Canada’s complicity in the dispossession of Palestinian homes
Does our commitment to reconciliation mean anything while we support settler-colonial regimes abroad?
Cuba: The single party system confronts the crisis
A critical perspective from a Cuban historian
The long overdue death of the Jewish Defence League
Rabbi Meir Kahane of the Jewish Defense League holds a press conference in New York City, 1971. Photo from Shutterstock. On July 9, 2021, one of Canada’s oldest hate organizations … Read More
Canada’s unhoused crisis: Where government cruelty meets police repression
Unhoused people carry with them an immense pain that is unimaginable for people lucky enough to have more privileged upbringings
The urgent need to tax billionaires out of existence
A wealth tax would raise badly-needed revenue. More importantly, it could reduce the fortunes—and power—of billionaires