Richard Fidler
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By Richard Fidler
March 15, 2022 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left — Pierre Beaudet, a Quebec leader in international solidarity and progressive scholarship, died in Montréal on the night of March 7-8. Pierre was for decades a central organizer, author and editor in a range of grassroots movements and left publications. His presence and inspiration will be sorely missed by many, both young and old, as Judy Rebick indicates in this tribute she published in rabble.ca, an online magazine she cofounded two decades ago.
I follow it with an article by Pierre, written less than a week before he died, that addresses the very issue Judy cited as one that she would look to him to explain. Bear in mind that this was written very early in the war before many implications were clear. Pierre wrote it in his capacity as director of Alternatives, the international solidarity organization he founded and to which he had recently returned. My translation. And I conclude by briefly recalling some of my own memories of Pierre as a friend and comrade.
Twenty-first century global capitalism reconfigures the imperialist disorder
Introduction and translation by Richard Fidler
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By Richard Fidler
Bolivia’s perfect storm: Pandemic, economic crisis, repressive coup regime
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Introduction by Richard Fidler
Canada: After the federal election - the dangers and challenges that lie ahead
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‘Dual Power,’ then... and now?
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By Richard Fidler
September 7, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left — Global capitalist crisis, impending ecological disaster, and new responses by popular movements in some regions, particularly in Latin America, inspire radical thinking about the need to go “beyond capital.” But how to attain the desired “system change” — today, an ecosocialist regime in place of capitalist rule — continues to be a matter for debate and experimentation.
Kashmir, solidarity and the Canadian state
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Trudeau government gives dangerous new powers to Canada’s political cops
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By Richard Fidler
July 12, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left Blog — Canada’s spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), is engaged in massive surveillance of environmentalists and Indigenous opponents of extractive energy projects. And it is sharing some of its “intelligence” with the oil industry and its regulator, the National Energy Board.
Québec solidaire vows to fight CAQ government’s racist bill
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By Richard Fidler
Rethinking some dominant approaches to climate change
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