Praxis: Building Community & Coalitions

Fascism won’t be defeated with reactive organizing. We need long-term strategy.

To resist the forces of fascism, we need an alternative approach to the crisis that’s based on a social justice agenda.

The library has been a long-standing institution in our society, but what if we applied its philosophy more broadly? Let's imagine what it would mean to real...

CUPE is calling out Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and businessman Kevin O'Leary for their efforts to sell out Canadian workers and sovereignty. Smith has been working hard to sabotage efforts to defend Canadian workers against Donald Trump's tariff threats. Meanwhile, Kevin O'Leary has been meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate about making Canada effectively the 51st state through economic union with the U.S.

In part 1 of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (And the Next), Dean Spade outlines what mutual aid is, isn't, and could be. He also outline...

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The Centre for Social Innovation is the home for the Next Economy. We're a community launchpad for people and enterprises who are proving that solutions are possible. The CSI community is home to over 1,000 nonprofits, charities, and social ventures that employ over 3,000 people and generate combined annual revenues of around $250 million. CSI members are turning social, environmental, and economic challenges into opportunities to create the Next Economy.

Perhaps the best known democratic socialist in Canada, the late Ed Broadbent discussed what he learned working in government coalitions and explained that the struggle for democratic socialism is a constant one.

Know thy enemy.

Canada’s unions are deeply alarmed by the U.S. administration’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian products. This is a direct attack on workers from both sides of the border, threatening good, unionized jobs in key sectors like manufacturing, mining, energy, and agriculture—jobs that form the backbone of our economy. These tariffs would create a devastating ripple effect, impacting families and entire communities. The stakes are immense: escalating costs of living, stagnant wages, and now the Trump tariff threats, putting workers’ livelihoods at risk. This is not just a trade issue; it is an economic and social emergency that...

The Assembly of First Nations is rejecting Donald Trump's remarks on annexing Canada to the U.S., arguing they undermine the sovereignty of Indigenous people. National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says while First Nations are ready to stand up against colonialism, they would like their voices to be heard at the national table discussing this threat.

Project 2025, a sprawling right-wing plan to provide policy and staffing to a future Republican president, proposes an extreme anti-worker agenda that would severely curtail unions’ ability to collectively bargain on behalf of their members and reverse gains organized labor has made in recent years. It would also weaken overtime regulations, give corporations wider latitude in misclassifying workers as independent contractors, and dismantle safety regulations that prohibit young people from working dangerous jobs. The initiative’s policy book, Mandate for Leadership, is an attempt to roll back New Deal-era, working class victories by allowing state-level exemptions from the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, and by creating nonunion “employee involvement organizations” to undermine unions’ negotiating power. It additionally calls for sharp reductions in the budgets of the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor and a freeze on new hires. Project 2025 is organized by The Heritage Foundation and includes more than 100 conservative groups on its advisory board, which have collectively received more than $55 million from groups tied to conservative megadonors Leonard Leo and Charles Koch. Leo has been pushing the Supreme Court to further erode the power of organized labor, and the Koch family has waged a war on unions for more than 60 years.

Project 2025 is a 920-page document offering a wide range of policy recommendations, including several bad ideas about unions and rolling back workplace protections that you should know about. The policy recommendations, put forward by mostly high-ranking former Trump administration officials, offer a look at the administration’s early priorities if President Trump were to be…

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In this video, I explore the historical ties between fascism and loneliness. Using studies and statistics and the work of political theorists such as Hanah A...

Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is not always the most effective strategy.

Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications.

Many on the left were pointing out that the Democratic Party was dangerous, due to their mendacity and hollow promises. The voicing of this concern was not to enhance the reactionary right but to save any shreds that could keep fascism at bay. The concern was that we would land exactly where we are, whether in this election cycle or the next. It could have happened after any neo-liberal administration, and the left was warning of this very salient fact. A

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On Episode #44 of the Book Talk Today podcast we are joined by Paul Mason.Paul is a journalist, writer and film-maker, actively engaged in the struggle for s...