Revloutionary Music Flashback

"Wow I was thinking whatever happened to the Tom Robinson Band. The first 'out' gay left band that was active in the Anti-Fscist movement in Britain. And lo and behold I came across this video. So I thought I would share it with ya' all. It's a great...

Left Wing Pragmatism

" As I wrote here the new left wing regimes in Latin America are not the old Stalinist model that the red baiting American right likes to claim they are. They have learned the lessons of defeat, of compromise, and that the need to create social democracy is as important as...

Politics Is Pragmatic

"The Financial Times discovers that even left wing regimes can be pragmatic. They seem surprised at the success of globalized capitalism which they have touted for so long. Morales opts for a pragmatic Bolivia"

Liberal Or liberal Media

"Back in the days when Toronto Sun columnist and right wing nutbar Lubor Zink would rant on about the liberal left media bias he meant 'liberal' veruses 'conservative'. You know like J.S. Mills versus Edmund Burke. Today's Blogging Tory no longer makes such distinctions. They...

POLITICAL POLL: Who's the most crazy?

Left-Wingers or Right-Wingers?

NDP Convention Transparency

Well if you have been watching the NDP Convention on CPAC, and who hasn't amongst us political bloggers left, centre and right, you will have seen a convention that failed to take advantage of TV to engage Canadians to be part of the debate.

Murray Bookchin RIP

"It is with great sadness that I have found out that anarchist theoritician, the author of Listen Marxist, The Limits of the City, etc. Founder of the Social Ecology Movement and anti-Lifestylist/Anti-Post Leftist Anarchism, and general curmodgen of the anarchist movement,...