Tag Archive - NDP

The Neoliberalization of Social Democracy

Details

Published on Friday, 30 August 2013 22:58

Review of Social Democracy After the Cold War. Edited by Bryan Evans and Ingo Schmidt. 2012. Edmonton: AU Press.

By James Cairns

The NDP Convention: The Decline and Fall of an Old Preamble (or A Social Democratic Party Becalmed)[1]

Details

Published on Monday, 15 April 2013 19:30

By Murray Cooke

Like the federal Liberal Party leadership race, the NDP policy convention this past weekend proved to be rather anti-climactic.

Mulcair's NDP: The New Liberal Party

Details

Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 15:12

Tom Mulcair has been the leader of the federal New Democratic Party for more than eight months now. His leadership has largely been as expected: solid, competent and moderate. Mulcair has continued Jack Layton's strategy of trying to supplant the Liberals as the middle-of-the-road alternative to the Harper Conservatives. It's not a particularly inspiring strategy and, looking toward the likely coronation of Justin Trudeau as the next leader of the Liberal Party, it's not a foregone conclusion that it will be a successful one. And supplanting the Liberals, even if that is solidified, isn't necessarily sufficient to defeat the Conservatives. Unless the Conservatives really implode or somehow manage to alienate their carefully cultivated base of supporters, they are going to be difficult to defeat in the next election.

Layton's Legacy and the NDP Leadership Race

Details

Published on Tuesday, 20 September 2011 13:05

By Murray Cooke

With the death of Jack Layton, the federal NDP has been thrust into an unexpected leadership race, its future in question.

The CAW-CEP Merger: A Political Reflection

Details

Published on Friday, 26 October 2012 03:16

By Bruce Allen

The approaching merger between the Canadian Autoworkers (CAW) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) will create the largest private sector union in Canada with over 300 000 members employed in 22 sectors of the economy. As such it has the potential to profoundly affect the political direction of both the labour movement in this country and ultimately the political future of Canada.