Two useful websites where articles continue to appear in English:
Alan Sears’s “Notes Towards a Socialism for the Times” is a very good article to get people interested in socialism, or to reinvigorate the passion of those already knowledgeable on the topic. It strives to explain what socialism from below is, how it fell by the wayside and why we need it back.
By Harold Lavender
In the May Federal election, Stephen Harper won a majority government without winning a majority of the vote. Only 39.6 percent of the population voted Conservative while 60 percent voted against. Much discussion has focused on the election results and what to do about the Harper majority. But relatively little of this has focused on the electoral system.
By Jackie Esmonde and Nadia Saad
It is rare in these times that we can celebrate a victory such as Alvaro Orozco’s return home to his Toronto community on June 1, after several weeks in immigration detention.
The gains by the NDP in the 2011 federal election have made the questions of what the NDP is today and how people opposed to the austerity agenda should relate to it even more important. The editors of New Socialist Webzine are glad to publish this contribution by Murray Cooke on the NDP past and present.
As always, we welcome constructive comments and other submissions that address these questions. Readers may also want to read the article, “After the Election 2011: Building our Movements on Shifting Ground.”
By Dave Zirin
How do we understand the riots that exploded in Vancouver after the beloved Canucks lost the Stanley Cup Finals?
By Maryann Abbs
Review of Augusta Dwyer, Broke But Unbroken: Grassroots Social Movements and Their Radical Solutions to Poverty (Winnipeg: Fernwood, 2011).
This is the third in a series of letters by one of the editors of NS Webzine. The first two are here and here.
Dear A,
You asked me if the people who publish this webzine are Trotskyists. Speaking only for myself here, I don’t consider myself a Trotskyist. I think the best of Trotskyism can contribute to the kind of socialist politics that’s needed today, but that we need to go beyond Trotskyism. Let me try to explain.