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In the 1930s, social democrats nurtured a political culture and an intellectual climate in which socialist ideas would be embraced. But today's NDP has evolved into a party much like the others.

This Smash the State Report starts off with the re-opening of the abortion debate in Canada, then jumps into the Quebec student strike, the Yinka-Dene Freedom Train and much more!

A recent Hungarian law says that it is the "monopoly of the State" to "use coercion." An official clearly implies that previously the State was unable to check extremist intimidation of Roma.

Putting an end to this political class arrogance is what the experience of the longest-serving NDP members has shown to be the major and vital challenge for the Canadian centre-left.

Top Tories fanned out across Canada today touting support for CETA, the “most ambitious trade deal in history.” The Left Coast Post asked Vancouver councillor Tim Stevenson what's the deal.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath has thrown down a gauntlet -- demanding that Dalton McGuinty impose a new slightly higher tax rate on Ontarians making more than $500,000 a year.

The Krellant Evening News brings you the deleted scenes from our special report on the NDP Leadership Convention.

Faithful readers will know that I've spent my adult life trying to get the NDP to be realistic about its modest status in Canadian life.

The rule of the technocrats: Have democracies given too much control to bureaucrats and policy advisers? Judy Rebick joins Steve Paikin for more.

An unwillingness to suffer fools and Conservatives gladly is no barrier to success in Canadian politics -- consider the sterling example of Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

When it's over, it's over. And like all New Democrats all across Canada, there must be only one thing on all of our minds from now on -- unity behind our new leader.

I went to my first political convention last weekend. The NDP Leadership Convention, to be exact. I felt a bit like an imposter: I didn't wear a partisan T-shirt or wave a sign. Instead, I scribbled.

Harper foes, take heart. The NDP rank-and-file made good on the party's Opposition promise at last weekend's leadership convention.

As the dust settles on the NDP leadership race, this may be an instructive "teachable moment" to examine some dimensions of the campaign and what messages it sends to the NDP.

Andrea Horwath can't support the provincial budget as is. Even if it means toppling the Liberals and sending voters back to the polls for an election they surely don't want.

Thousands of new democrats descended upon the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on the week-end to elect a new leader. Here are a few moments - in photos.

My objective at the NDP convention? To get a sense of just how much the party was willing to move towards collaboration with others, so that the voices of Canadians could be properly represented.

Thomas Mulcair seems most fully engaged when interviewers are posing him questions. NDPers will be happy with that, after his speeches at the convention got so-so reviews.

The new leader of the NDP is Thomas Mulcair. So where is he going to take the progressive party?

There will be lots of soul searching and head scratching going on this week about what happened with the NDP leadership race. Two things shocked me about this race and its final two days.

One-member-one-vote is a crappy way to select a party leader. But the choice is made so let's get on with it.

Quebec. The NDP membership's primary concern is that the party hold its 58 Quebec seats in the next election: this determined the outcome of the leadership campaign.

babble, rabble.ca's discussion forum, accumulated some 147 leadership threads during the NDP leadership race, and after the NDP convention, the lively discussion continues.

Tom Mulcair as new NDP leader provides new opportunities to strengthen the NDP and its relations with social movements. The stakes are too high to substitute sound bites and slogans for analysis.

At times of significant political change, it always helps to wait a while before reaching ultimate conclusions. So it is with the election of Thomas Mulcair as the new leader of the NDP.