Columnists
Rick Salutin
| The alternative to socialism is no longer neoliberalism; it's Trumpian racist populism, which is probably a nonstarter in Ontario. |
Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Journalist Martin Lukacs says, "we need a Canadian Orwell to taxonomize the way Liberals have managed to use language to serve their ends!" |
Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Savvy Alberta New Democrats who want to help their provincial party's prospects will support the federal candidate most likely to focus on issues with a positive impact on Alberta. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| What now for Chavez’s children? Events in Venezuela are the latest points of light for young, left-wing idealists to fade. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| Socialism is no longer a dirty word and left-wing parties have valuable lessons to learn from authentic candidates who were able to attract the youth vote. |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| If nothing else, Thursday's U.K. election proves that it is not electoral poison for a party and a leader to take a clear, left-of-centre stance, one that includes expansion of social benefits. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| Corbyn boldly, even recklessly, doubled down, blaming the bombing partly on the aggressive, militaristic foreign policy of previous leaders, including Labour's own Tony Blair. Why did it work? |
Blog
Gerry Caplan
| May's Conservatives want to wipe out the Labour party, and Labour wants to keep the Conservatives honest. But this is the season of election upsets, so anything could happen. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| It may be that the quality of leadership has been so formularized and commodified that people now yearn for someone who reeks to boredom of being without it. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| Can the Left counter the Right's populist movement with one of its own? Maybe. The question is how says Rick Salutin. |
Blog
Sarah Beuhler
| An opportunity exists to seize back the momentum from the far right. Let's hope it's not too late. |
News
Neil Faulkner
| London's newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan might indicate a victory for multiculturalism and anti-racism, but he also represents New Labour's degraded neoliberalism. |