Requiem for the Waffle?
The dormant Waffle may have been re-awakened, but its dreams for a sovereign, socialist Canada face new 21st century challenges.
David Coaker is an Ottawa-based community organizer and the Labour Director for the Ontario New Democratic Youth. He is passionate about working class politics, electoral reform, and social justice.
The dormant Waffle may have been re-awakened, but its dreams for a sovereign, socialist Canada face new 21st century challenges.

There are many lessons for today’s labour organizers and social democrats to learn from the FPU as a mass party, such as its deep entrenchment within struggling working-class communities, and the alternative economic and financial institutions it built.


