Canadian Author and Activist
“Rebooting the whole conversation” on militarism requires discussing alternative conceptions of security, Canadian force’s actual focus and the roots of great power conflicts. While some of this will be difficult for Avi Lewis, it’s essential to challenging Mark Carney’s historic increase in military spending. The NDP leader’s recent comments on military affairs have received significant... Continue Reading →
Amidst pressure Avi Lewis has criticized Carney’s $100 billion submarine purchase. But there’s still a need to directly challenge the militarist ethos in the NDP. On Tuesday evening Lewis finally criticized Mark Carney’s plan to buy attack submarines. On former Global and CTV reporter Rachel Gilmore’s program, the NDP leader said there’s “no rationale for... Continue Reading →
“I oppose Carney’s $100 billion attack submarine purchase”. Avi Lewis won’t say those words but wants peace minded activists who helped him win the NDP leadership race to believe that’s his position. What does it say about the party and Canadian politics that a leftist NDP leader can’t clearly oppose an unprecedented increase in a... Continue Reading →
The NDP has stayed mum on a major expansion in Canadian war fighting capacity. The Naval Deployment Party has been staunchly pro-navy since long before Russia’s invasion or Trump’s annexation threats. In a major militarist expansion, Mark Carney recently announced the purchase of a dozen German submarines set to be equipped with cruise missiles. Two... Continue Reading →
It would be a victory if we could get Avi Lewis to simply mimic important parts of Stephen Harper, Jean Chrétien and Brian Mulroney’s military policy. When the last Conservative prime minister left office in 2015, Canadian military spending amounted to 1% of this country’s GDP. It’s now twice that (three times in actual dollars).... Continue Reading →
Although some of his supporters claim he isn’t, Avi Lewis sure seems to be a militarist. The new NDP leader’s tacit acceptance of Mark Carney’s submarine madness is but the latest example of Lewis following his party’s well-worn warmongering ways. In the latest phase of the largest militarization in three quarters of a century, Carney... Continue Reading →
The Jewish National Fund offers maybe the starkest institutional example of the shift within the left establishment regarding colonial Jewish supremacy. A decade ago, leading left politicians participated in the explicitly racist organization’s events and now prominent figures are pulling out of forums because of their affiliation to the JNF. In a positive sign, David... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis will further “moderate” his position if the left doesn’t press him, according to his longtime advisor. If serious, Martin Lukacs would promote the upcoming “Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed” conference put on by individuals working inside and outside the NDP. A longtime Lewis advisor, whose partner is the new NDP leader’s communications director, Lukacs... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis should replace NDP national director Lucy Watson with a Palestinian Canadian. A month since NDP members voted for change it is troubling that the person most associated with the discredited, racist, Liberal-lite manner of ‘doing politics’ has yet to be removed. On Wednesday the Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed campaign hosted a webinar titled... Continue Reading →
Why would an opponent of genocide have someone who excuses genocide speak at their public memorial? After a half century of aggressive Jewish supremacism Stephen Lewis was celebrated by many Palestine supporters for attending a single rally 20 months into the Gaza genocide. Will they say anything about an “unabashed Zionist” speaking at his memorial?... Continue Reading →
Heather McPherson’s appointment as NDP foreign critic is morally and tactically dubious. Last week new leader Avi Lewis gave McPherson a position that she held over the past five years during which time she generally backed the Liberals’ US empire aligned policy. She’s a member of the NATO Parliamentary Association, close to the Ukrainian Canadian... Continue Reading →
Oppose Israel killing Palestinians, Iranians and Lebanese but promote events the genocidal supremacist state uses to justify their crimes. That seems to be the NDP position. Leah Gaza, Avi Lewis, Don Davies and other NDP leaders recently marked an Israeli government organized commemoration instigated to justify ethnically cleansing Palestinians. The NDP brass all posted about... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis’ foreign critic is a NATO hawk whose positions are at odds with maintaining social services. This can be seen most clearly by contrasting Heather McPherson’s belligerence on Russia with the position of former Liberal PM Jean Chrétien. As NDP foreign affairs critic over the past five years McPherson has been an extreme war-is-the-only-language-they-speak... Continue Reading →
Why didn’t Avi Lewis call to pause officer exchanges with a military led by a warmongering fanatic? Why hasn’t the NDP leader raised the hundreds of bilateral military accords Canada has with a country headed by an annexationist president? And how come activists assisting Lewis aren’t seeking to shape his call for a “modern military”?... Continue Reading →
Stephen Lewis was an aggressive Jewish supremacist for nearly his entire life. Yet in a sign of the Jewish exceptionalism and disregard for Palestinian rights pervading our political culture some are lauding the deceased politician as pro-Palestinian for attending a single protest. In word and deed Stephen Lewis was anti-Palestinian for almost his entire life.... Continue Reading →
As the hagiographies of Stephen Lewis pour in it’s crucial to look at how the famed statesman contributed to Canadian mythology and Jewish supremacist colonialism. From Mark Carney to Charlie Angus, Bob Rae to Steve Paikin, the liberal establishment has praised someone who followed a Marit Styles/Bob Rae career trajectory into a great internationalist. Or... Continue Reading →
“The NDP has an antisemitism problem”, blared a Thursday Globe and Mail headline. In fact, the party has a colonial Jewish supremacy problem. In response to the recent election of Avi Lewis as leader and Niall Ricardo as party president, Konrad Yakabuski claimed the NDP is anti-Jewish. But, Lewis and Ricardo are both Jewish and according to... Continue Reading →
Congratulations to Avi Lewis on his victory in the NDP leadership race. After a brief moment of celebration his leftist backers should start ensuring he upends the party bureaucracy while promoting socialist, internationalist and anti-ecocide policies. Sunday Lewis won the NDP leadership on the first ballot. He garnered 56 percent of the vote in the... Continue Reading →
The NDP should apologize for enabling the US/Israeli war on Iran. The party has long assisted imperial aggression, which has escalated to a cataclysmic war. Caitlin Johnstone recently posted, “Can’t get over how many leftists bought into the ‘we support the Iran protests’ schtick. Where the fuck did you idiots think this was headed? What... Continue Reading →
Lori Idlout joining Mark Carney’s Liberals shines a spotlight on the NDP’s rightist, anti-activist orientation. On Tuesday Nunavut MP Idlout joined one of the most right-wing Liberal governments in generations. Considering Carney’s politics, it’s revealing that two elected NDP representatives have joined his team in short order. A month ago, Ontario NDP MPP and deputy... Continue Reading →
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