3. Rebuilding Left Power Library

With climate and environmental movements still dominated by white activists and non-profit staff, there has been a growing movement of Indigenous-centred organizing addressing climate change, fighting pipelines, and engaging in militant forms of direct action. While mainstream environmental movements remain cen- tred on a single-based issue, Indigenous organizing has focused on decolonization, land back, and sovereignty with the struggle to fight climate change and fight for a just transition. Exploring the role of white and non-Indigenous settlers in building power and support, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger offers insight into the current struggles against environmental devastation. This interview took place on Oct 17, 2021, and was conducted by Lana Goldberg. Many thanks to Amelia Spedaliere for transcribing the interview.

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.

Upping the Anti is a radical journal of theory and action which provides a space to reflect on the state of political organizing in Canada.

The political economy of migrant labour in Canada’s agricultural industry

Historically, Black and Indigenous trans women were honoured within our communities. Today, Land Back means undoing transmisogyny in our movements and restoring the cultural importance of non-colonial gender identities.

Since 1973, Briarpatch has been serving up regular doses of news and analysis from its home in Regina, Saskatchewan. Believing that a truly free press is essential to the creation of a truly democratic society, Briarpatch provides a thoughtful, principled, and irreverent alternative to the false consensus of the corporate media.

From socially-distanced protests to virtual union drives, five vital signs of worker organizing during COVID-19

CUPE is Ontario’s community union, with members providing the quality public services we all rely on, in every part of the province, every day.

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

Will the right reign in Canada? Or has Trump's tariff talk given the libs the vote for the next 6 years? We'll discuss.Check out our new bi-weekly series, "T...

OPIRG York is a student org that works toward social & environmental justice.

Linktree. Make your link do more.

Linktree. Make your link do more.

No to KingSett's luxury condo at King and Cowan!

All Peoples Fighting Oppression. Freedom. Unity. Struggle.

Linktree. Make your link do more.

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

LeftStreamed is a massive open online archive of digitized public talks by hundreds of leading Left public intellectuals featured in Socialist Project and Centre for Social Justice-sponsored events in Toronto, Canada. If you were not able to get to Toronto for a talk by Bhaskar Sunkara, Ursula Huws, Bill Fletcher Jr, Jodi Dean, Leo Panitch, Jane McAlevey, Ian Angus, Henry Giroux and others, don’t worry, LeftStreamed’s got you covered. Since 2007, we’ve made hundreds of public talks virtually available to those unable to physically attend. Free to access and often used in political educational settings, LeftStreamed’s videos reach hundreds of thousands of viewers and are available to watch anytime, anywhere.

Over the past few years, digital organizing has become the hot new thing in unionization campaigns. Digital mobilization and engagement technologies have become essential to winning. However, while some unions have won remarkable gains utilizing these technologies, other unions have lagged behind, unwilling to embrace these new tools. Before the…