Embers of the Mass Party: Membership and Democracy
What if the CCF-NDP’s history as a mass party and a democratic, membership-based movement for a better world is in fact its unique strength in Canadian politics?
What if the CCF-NDP’s history as a mass party and a democratic, membership-based movement for a better world is in fact its unique strength in Canadian politics?
Ed Broadbent and his co-authors spoke at the Toronto Reference Library to launch their new book on Canadian social democracy.
Despite the gloomy outlook for the future of journalism, it is still quite possible to access news and opinion independent of social media.
To be humane, societies must be democratic — and, to be democratic, every person must be afforded the economic and social rights necessary for their individual flourishing.
Perspectives is a new space for the Canadian progressive left to build on the ideas of political economy, governance and working-class political strategy.
“Coming back to the commitment by the state, instead, I say, we need an expansion of the role of the state through decommodification. This will lead to the real freedom of more citizens, in a way that simple political and civil rights cannot.”
Through the pandemic, mounting disasters induced by the climate crisis, and the as epicenter of Canada’s housing affordability crisis, BC held on to a progressive government among the provinces to lead through these crises.
The 2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by economist Armine Yalnizyan—a leading voice on Canada’s economic scene.
As these brave public workers undertake one of the largest strike actions in Canadian history, we progressives need to have their backs.