Editorial — From the Ashes? | Special Issue – Winter 2026
The politics of the centre are no match for the challenges that face humanity. We do, it seems, face a choice between socialism or barbarism.
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2025 Federal Election Assessments and Observations
The still elusive goal of winning federal power notwithstanding, the CCF-NDP has persisted across the decades because social democracy has continued to hold profound appeal among millions of Canadians.
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The Protean Politics of Social Democracy: New Democrats at a Crossroads?
Contemporary social democracy is not equipped to take up the first of these options without a fundamental re-foundation ideologically, programmatically, and organizationally. Is such a deep reinvention possible by Canadian social democrats?
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Narrativizing Confidence and Supply: NDP Political Communications during the Supply-and-Confidence Agreement
By continuously framing legislation secured through the SACA within a narrative of dysfunction, opposition, and obstruction, the NDP struggled to present itself as a constructive force in Parliament.
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The Changing Class Basis of Canadian and Social Democratic Futures
Elements of a redistributive and working-class agenda are already in demand, but many voters and especially the working class, feel politically alienated and disaffected that their interests are not being pursued.
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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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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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The Socialist Challenge and Beyond
“Our socialist challenge is to tackle what I have called the economic question. This fundamental question is about economic power, and who will wield it. It is about our national priorities, and who will decide them.”
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Possibilities of Power: A Retrospective of the Ontario New Democratic Government, 1990 to 1995
Reflecting on the ONDP government led by Bob Rae from 1990 to 1995, it is clear that the success of today’s ONDP depends on its ability to deliver on substantive reforms that materially benefit Ontario’s diverse working-class.
