New Democratic Party (Canada)
Canada’s New Democratic Party and the “Leap Manifesto”
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A Leap toward radical politics?
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Canada needs a new left-wing party
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Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwa
Canada: New Democratic Party poised for power, but to what effect?
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For more on the New Democratic Party, click HERE. For more on politics in Canada, click HERE.
By Richard Fidler
February 19, 2013 -- Life on the Left, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- In the summer of 2012 I drafted an article on the New Democratic Party (NDP) for the purpose of introducing a discussion among some comrades seeking information about the party that now forms the official opposition in Canada’s House of Commons. While by no means a definitive study, the article draws on a number of books, academic papers and other documents addressed to the history and nature of Canadian social democracy, all of which are referenced or linked in the text. A French version of this article, addressed to a Québécois readership, is published in the current issue of the left journal Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme devoted to “La question canadienne”, a critical analysis of the “Harper revolution”.
The Quebec left and student movement after the ‘Maple Spring’
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Canada: Thomas Mulcair, the New Democratic Party and the social movements
"Thomas Mulcair is a man of the establishment, not of the social movements."
[Read more on Canada's New Democratic Party HERE.]
By Paul Kellogg
March 27, 2012 -- PolEcon.net, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author's permission -- Canada's social-democratic New Democratic Party (NDP) has a new federal leader. Thomas Mulcair, has no roots in the social movements, a long history of being a senior Liberal Party member and is someone openly committed to pushing the NDP considerably to the right. The implications for all interested in progressive social change are sobering.
Mulcair’s victory: A new direction for Canada's NDP?
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NDP leader Thomas Mulcair.
Canada: The NDP -- new wine in an old jar?
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NDP leadership candidates.
Workers’ governments and socialist strategy — a discussion
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Canada’s election: NDP gains widen space for social struggles
By Roger Annis
May 23, 2011 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, an earlier version of this article also first appeared in Green Left Weekly -- The incumbent Conservative Party sailed to victory in Canada’s federal election on May 2 with the first majority government in the federal parliament since the 2000 election. There was celebration in the boardrooms of the country. The victory caps a decades-long drive by much of Canada’s business elite to fashion a strong national government on a hard-right agenda.
The result is a deep disappointment for progressive-minded people in Canada. The Conservatives led by Stephen Harper will form the most right-wing government in modern Canadian history, extending the regressive path of its two minority governments won in the 2006 and 2008 elections.