Activists Make History: Winning for Working People with Rob Ashton
The longshoreman and leadership hopeful shares his vision for Canada’s NDP as the party of workers and everyday people.
Labour Union Movement
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Activists Make History: Big Tent Organizing with Heather McPherson
Heather McPherson is channeling value-driven politics in her campaign for NDP leadership.
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Activists Make History: From the Ground Up with Tony McQuail
Tony McQuail is channeling decades of grassroots activism to platform rural issues and a green progressive vision for the federal NDP.
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Activists Make History: Stories that Change the World with Avi Lewis
Peggy Nash is bringing conversations from the campaign trail to Activists Make History, speaking with candidates running to be the next leader of the federal NDP.
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Labour and the NDP: Revisiting the Past, Looking to the Future
The NDP’s ability to credibly advance this alternative vision depends largely on whether the labour movement is itself willing and able to engage in such political and economic education.
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Newfoundland’s First Mass Party
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.
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Organizing Canada’s Building Trades with Ironworkers Bert Royer and Nigel Hare
Ontario’s Building and Construction Trades Council keeps workers protected and empowered from apprenticeship to retirement.
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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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Activists Make History: Women United — Toronto Book Launch
The new book by Peggy Nash & Julie White tells the untold stories of dozens of women leaders in the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Union.
