The 2018 municipal elections in British Columbia are significant in two ways: one, they are dominated by “the housing crisis,” a term that refers both to the frustrations of members of the professional managerial class who feel entitled to owning a detached house with a fenced yard, and also to the…
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Part 6: Where politics really happens
In 1920, anti-capitalist groups from all around the world met in the still-newborn Soviet Union for a congress that…
Part 5: Being an offensive opposition
The inoffensive reformers are preferable to the free market fundamentalists, even though neither are taking steps…
Part 4: Shining Vancouver’s Reconciliation Brand / City Versus Country
The Four Progressive parties also make some overtures to Indigenous peoples, some using language like…
Part 3: Inoffensive reforms for the servants of the Professional-Managerial Class
The version of the “housing crisis” that is dominating BC’s 2018 municipal election in urban centres is one that…
Part 2: Chasing moral panic votes
In Surrey the number one election issue is “crime,” which means politicians across the spectrum are making promises…
Part 1: Free market fundamentalism / Progressives compete on a narrow political…
Free market fundamentalism
In Vancouver the electoral right has a slough of pretenders that are competing for…
They get elected, we get evicted: Going beyond the inoffensive reforms of…
The 2018 municipal elections in British Columbia are significant in two ways: one, they are dominated by “the…
Fight the Doug Ford Tories! Statement from Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Doug Ford is now Premier of Ontario and a hard right, class war Tory Government is in power. Our message is that…
“We’re not eggs in an omelette, we are people”: Burnaby finally embraces…
The vacuum that Mayor Corrigan and Mayoral candidate Hurley are jostling to appear to fill is between the NDP’s…