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A union exists whenever a group of people work together to solve a problem they couldn’t alone, says Shane Burley.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline. It’s a bold title. A title that sells books, certainly. And while (spoiler alert) we are not taught how to blow up a pipeline in this 160-page book, Andreas Malm does have some things to say that many climate activists might find explosive. A Swedish eco-socialist, activist, and historian of our collective trajectory toward ecological collapse, Malm is perhaps best known for writing two weighty historical books called Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, and The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. In an interview for the LA Review of Books, Malm describes how, after the summer of 2018, when Europe was swept with wave after wave of unprecedented extreme weather, he told his publisher: “I can’t really do this historical stuff any longer.”1 He felt he needed to write something about right now, something that addressed the extreme emergency of the present moment. Enter: How to Blow up a Pipeline, a compact treatise on the climate movement’s fetishization of pacifism in the face of looming existential threat, and a plea to explore more of our options.

While the Canadian left remains static, the right has reinvented and morphed itself to appeal to diverse groups of people across the country.

EU parliamentarian Matthias Ecke explains Germany’s extreme far-right Alternative für Deutschland party for Canadians

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As the global economy crashes yet again, wars and genocides rage, and fascism appears to be on the rise, the exchange of ideas taking place at

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Empower Your Resistance: A Practical Guide to Revolutionary Optimism, Mutual Aid, and Defying Totalitarians

Younger Canadians are more susceptible to Donald Trump’s call to make the country a 51st state because school systems stopped teaching Canadian history.

The UAW’s recent deal with the Big Three automakers wasn’t just a victory for labor. It also marked the revival of an overlooked Christian movement that’s changing our politics.

How the well-honed playbook for whipping up authoritarian populism is being employed here and around the world.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

How do we fight it? This tide of ugliness, stupidity, and hate sweeping our world, drowning our nations, ravaging our everyday lives? This is the question I get most often. I’m reluctant to answer…

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Law enforcement’s ability to track and profile political protestors has become increasingly multifaceted and technology driven. In this edition of Incognito ...

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Canada has a choice to make. We can continue to let the wealthiest among us hoard resources while ordinary Canadians struggle with rising costs, or we can take bold action to build a fairer, more just society. It’s time for Canada to ditch the excuses and implement a wealth tax and other progressive tax measures. The future of our economy, and our democracy, depends on it.

The story of a Norwegian schoolteacher's resistance during World War II has lessons for Americans today: It's time to tell the fascists 'no.'

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.

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.