David Camfield

As the logic of capitalism infiltrates our social movements, we must choose between being paid for our activism and building a strong culture of social struggle.

The CPC’s image may be radical, but its politics are tired Stalinist reformism 

Free speech isn’t a cause the left can afford to leave to liberals or the right. And when “no platform” is called for, we shouldn’t appeal to authorities to do it.  

People who say “voting is harm reduction” wrongly assume that in the lead-up to elections, all we can do is vote for the least-bad candidate or party.

One hundred years after the murder of the Polish-German revolutionary socialist, are any of her ideas still useful for leftists?

What’s the difference between the hard right and the far right, and how do we limit their growth in Canada?

To ask activist groups to take on responsibility for members’ emotional well-being is to saddle them with an impossible burden – something that makes activist burnout more likely.

Years with so little social struggle on the Prairies have left us without much of what Alan Sears calls the “infrastructure of dissent.”

Theory can help activists stay involved in social change work.

Micah White’s conclusion – that the future of efforts to change society will be a combination of electoral politics and cultural “meme warfare” – misses the mark.