Editorial – Summer 2025
Canadian progressives need to hold fast against a Carney government propped up by approval ratings that reflect the public sentiment that “things could be worse” as they become increasingly worse.
Neoliberalism
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From Stagnation to Inclusive Growth: How Income Inequality and Distributional Imbalances Stall Economic Growth in Canada
Rebuilding labour’s bargaining power, restoring the wage–productivity link, and redirecting investment toward long-term public goals are essential to improving Canada’s economic performance.
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Back to the Future: Razing the Welfare State’s Third Pillar in the United States
The second Trump administration’s attacks on the welfare state go beyond deregulation: the goal is to obliterate it.
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Carney and the Calgary School: or, Passive Revolution and Canada’s Social State in the Neoliberal Era
Canada’s ruling Liberals have managed to forge a path for a politics of containment that fends off the right by incorporating some of its demands and making those demands more widely palatable.
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Ed Broadbent’s Lessons for Rebuilding Today’s NDP
The task of the NDP is to find ways to add to, rather than supplant, its traditional working-class base.
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What Canadians Can Learn from Progressives Across the Americas
Progressive governments in the Global South should show Canadians how to build a vision for a good society, where transformation for the wellbeing of all Canadians is the goal.
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The Rise of End-of-the-World Fascism and Resistance from the Global South
Naomi Klein delivers remarks at the the 2025 Panamerican Congress, explaining the growing threat of end-times fascism.
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Carney’s Cuts with Angella MacEwen
Angella MacEwen explains what is at stake with Mark Carney’s chosen course of “cuts, cuts, and more cuts.”
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Class & Climate: Colombia’s Just Transition with Lala Peñaranda and Matt Kirkegaard
Colombian oil workers and la Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) are leading the charge for a just transition. Here’s what Canada can learn from their worker-led climate plan.
