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Social Movements
Reflections on CD through five decades
What motivated me to start producing a magazine in the basement of my rented house in Winnipeg in the fall of 1963? I was 27 years old at the time, and knew nothing at all about how to run a business, let alone publish a magazine. I had no money, nor did I know anyone who did. Even worse, I barely knew anyone who might want to write for a magazine.
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Latin America and the Caribbean
While we mine for gold, others strive for justice.
Canadians vie for it, want it, and when they play hockey, they demand it. Gold. For most Canadians it’s a medal they would like to see hanging around Sidney Crosby’s neck. But that gold, silver, nickel or bronze comes from somewhere, and invariably, when it is produced there is a cost, and not just the money required to purchase the bling.
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Economic Crisis
Capitalism Becomes Questionable
The depth and length of the global crisis are now clear to millions. In the sixth year since it started in late 2007, no end is in sight. Unemployment rates are now less than halfway back from their recession peak to where they were in 2007.
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Indigenous Politics
More Idle No More
For the moment to become a sustained movement it will have to develop a stronger analysis and better organizational capacity, but the breadth and depth of the social support it has already generated show an enormous hunger for social change pointed towards social justice.
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Feminism
CD and Feminism: Chronicle of a Movement Defining Itself
Over its 50 years, Canadian Dimension featured some of Canada’s most well-known and thought provoking feminists, activists and scholars, the majority of whom straddled the line between academia and activism. This was fitting for a magazine that has made such a dedicated effort to mobilize knowledge in ways that activists can use in their struggles.
Recent articles
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BC’s Election Stunner: Five Lessons for the Left
When Preston Manning founded the Reform Party in 1989 he said that if it hadn’t achieved power in 20 years he would dissolve it and make room for something else. It actually happened sooner than that, of course. Manning wasn’t married to any political party, even his own. He was committed to changing the world. (more)
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Harper stokes resentments in discreet class war
The willingness of much of the Canadian media to go along with the Conservative narrative about Stephen Harper’s “moderation” has allowed the prime minister to wage a discreet class war against working people without attracting too much attention. (more)
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Defeating Harper from Below
The swaggeringly pro-capitalist, neoliberal and militarist Harper juggernaut makes enquiring into its limits seem impertinent. So, prima facie, do developments elsewhere. The 2008 financial crisis, the greatest crisis of neoliberalism, appeared to reinforce the power of capital everywhere. However, a longer historical perspective appears more encouraging. (more)
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Québec Solidaire congress reaffirms the party’s independence from the neoliberal parties
Some important decisions were made by more than 600 delegates at the Ninth Congress of Québec Solidaire. This was the largest congress to date for this party, founded in 2006, which doubled its membership to 14,000 during the past year in the wake of the student upsurge. (more)
Episode 214 (May 3rd) — On Mayday Noam Chomsky urges activists to focus their attention not simply on the economy and the environment, but how the market system underlies the fiscal and environmental crisis. Clayton Thomas Muller discusses the diverse strategies of First People’s against colonial structures that destroy their livelihoods and their environment. Nae Burrows describes the successful living-wage campaign in British Columbia.
- Socialism for the 21st Century: Interview with Michael Lebowitz
- Ignoring the cost of climate change is bad for busniess by Eric Reguly – Globe and Mail
- The Rail Riders’ Riot: Dirty Thirties’ On-to-Ottawa-Trek by Michael Dupuis
- All Signs Point to Deepening Opposition to the Fossil Fuel Industry Assault in B.C. by Roger Annis
- ShitHarperdid keeps apathy in its crosshairs by Harrison Samphir
- After the Canadian Jewish Congress by Dan Freeman-Maloy
- Social Impact Bonds by Sherri Torjman
- The incredible shrinking cost of solar energy by Juan Cole
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