Editorial – Summer 2025
The Canadian left needs confidence, a feeling of trust and certainty in self and in others, to restart from scratch and learn to use this hyperpolitical moment.
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League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual Foundations of the Canadian Left
Building the kind of mass intellectual institution like the LSR is necessary to provide a cohesive intellectual and ideological basis for organizing, and to shape discourses and develop the leadership needed to win.
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Social Democrats of the North: Frank Calder, Living in Two Worlds
As the first status Indigenous person to be elected at either the federal or provincial level in Canada, Frank Calder used his position to advocate for a modern, comprehensive land claims policy to facilitate the negotiation and claims process.
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Social Democrats of the North: M.J. Coldwell, From the Prairies to Parliament
CCF Leader M.J. Coldwell fought in Parliament to establish unemployment insurance and old age pensions.
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Social Democrats of the North: Ernest Winch and Harold Winch
Meet the radical father-son duo who became two of British Columbia’s left-wing pioneers.
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Social Democrats of the North: League for Social Reconstruction
The League for Social Reconstruction was a group of socialist thinkers, brought together by the crisis of the Great Depression, that laid the intellectual foundations for modern Canadian social democracy.
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Social Democrats of the North: J.S. Woodsworth
From the Winnipeg General Strike to the birth of the CCF, J.S. Woodsworth became a pioneer of Canadian social democracy.
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NDP Leadership Race Should Look to History on How to Change Canada
With Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government still a few seats short of a majority government, working-class Canadians should start asking NDP leadership candidates how they would wield the balance of power.
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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?
