Out of the Impasse?
The Avi Lewis Campaign and Left Strategy

Marcel Nelson and Nathan Rao on the possibilities and potential pitfalls of Avi Lewis’s campaign for the NDP leadership.

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A sepia-toned, hazy photo of an excavator or similar machinery digging a channel in dirt, in which pipes extend to the horizon.

Crisis as Class Strategy

Mostafa Henaway on the emergence of the Carney doctrine in Canadian politics: elbows up and austerity for the many.
A large red X sculpture in Juarez, Mexico as seen from downtown El Paso, Texas, USA. Both cities are dense urban environments with low structures; many of the houses have red rooftops. The sky is a hazy blue-grey.

Internationalizing the Coalition

A conversation with Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders.
A small bird, a sanderling, appears to dance or run across a beach. The beach is rocky, with rounded dark stones. The photo looks a bit overexposed, the backdrop white.

Villiform

In a new poem, Jade Wallace playfully refigures disability as poetic constraint.
A torn and bent chain-link fence. Blurred trees and land in the background, autumnal colours.

From Trade War to Class War

John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
A close-up of a yellow rock with a pattern on it, in orange, that appears to depict people of different heights and sizes standing in a circle with hands linked.

Ritual and Repetition

Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.

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