From mid-October 2011 until its eviction in late November, Occupy Toronto attracted a lot of attention. Earlier this year, Adrie Naylor, Dave Vasey and Donya Ziaee, who were all active in Occupy Toronto, talked with New Socialist Webzine co-editor David Camfield about what happened, its significance and its lessons for people who want to build a new Left.

This article is Part 1 of a 2-part series.The authors are both based in the United States, and thus use the term "tribal nations" (Indigenous peoples in Canada refer to themselves as "First Nations") -- NSW

By Andrew Curley and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

By David McNally

It is a truism to say that democracy began with the Greeks – less so to say that it originated in popular rebellion against debt and debt-bondage. Yet, with the Greek people ensnared once more in the vice-grip of rich debt-holders, it may be useful to recall that fact. For the only hope today of reclaiming democracy in Greece (and elsewhere) resides in the prospect of a mass uprising against modern debt-bondage that extends the rule of the people into the economic sphere.

Review of Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler, Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (Fernwood/RED, 2011).

By Harold Lavender

The popular movement against the Assad regime continues. We are publishing a translation of a statement from the Syrian Revolutionary Left, a group of Marxists inside and outside Syria that in January published the first issue of a monthly newspaper. We hope that this will allow more people who read English to become aware of the revolutionary socialist presence in the struggle in Syria.