3. Rebuilding Left Power

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An exposé supported by the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations Network found loans earmarked for green projects were routinely used by fossil fuel and mining companies.

The global affairs briefing you'll actually look forward to reading.

Suddenly, my feed was crawling with fake cake bakers basking in the love of real Facebook members. What does that have to do with connecting the world?

Fears of the erosion of democracy pervade the headlines. The rise of authoritarian populists around the world, with Donald Trump being the most emblematic, has mobilized centrist pundits and politicians to claim, and rally around, the flag of democracy as a mobilizing tool.

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The dominant class and its cheerleaders, intent on doubling down to maintain a social system which proudly features gross inequality and inequity, are out on top. The working class and its leftist protagonists, hoping to fuel a movement for a radical rethinking of our polity to get closer to a social system which advances equality and altruism, find themselves at the bottom.

As part of our response to rising anti-immigrant rhetoric in Canada, we are sharing some educational resources.

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Childhood trauma doesn't just leave psychological scars—it biologically reshapes the brain through chronic neuroinflammation and structural changes, increasing vulnerability to psychiatric disorders later in life.

Three ways to ensure a better political future after division and destruction almost won.

If you live in the United States and feel like everything is caving in around you, like you are being attacked and fleeced from every angle, like you can’t breathe, like you can’t ever seem to catch a break despite doing everything seemingly right, like you are on the verge of a mental-health crisis and/or homelessness, your feelings are justified. We are living in the middle of widespread societal breakdown. We are witnessing the erosion of an empire. We are experiencing the effects of a rotten system (capitalism) coming to its inevitable conclusion. Simply put, the capitalist class and their two political parties have run out of ways to steal from us. Because we have nothing left for them to take. So, the system is responding like a vampire who is unable to find the blood it needs to survive… erratic, rabid, frenzied, and increasingly desperate and violent, while frantically searching for new avenues of exploitation to keep it churning.

Summer is just around the corner, and Toronto's historic Distillery District will once again transform into an open-air cinema village for the season…

The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles. In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself, deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.

Product of decades-long process aims to restore Heiltsuk’s system of coherent governance destroyed by colonial powers

A reading list on understanding fascism as a key feature of capitalist liberal nation-states

Special zones for industry pass under Bill 5, blocking green standards, prioritizing data centres and more from the Doug Ford government

Who can be a fascist? Or a better question is: is any group of people inoculated against fascism, who can’t “catch” or succumb to it? Like Jews, perhaps? As the child of a survivor of Auschwitz, I am especially interested in this question. And my answer has always been the same: Suffering under fascism in no way immunizes any group against falling for it.

2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecturer Grace Blakeley sits down with Luke Savage in for a conversation on the failures of neoliberal capitalism and what the left must do if it is to win the working-class.

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Highlighting recent ecological research, explaining it, and putting it into wider contexts.

Jacque Fresco, founder of The Venus Project, envisioned a world beyond capitalism—where science, technology, and intelligent resource management create abund...