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Most Canadian politicians, even self-described left-wing ones, seem to want a war bank in their city. Apparently, they don’t care about starving social programs, linking finance to arms production or the violence it will spur. On Thursday leftist Quebec Solidaire (QS) defended Montreal’s bid to host the new NATO war bank Canada was recently selected... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis has a colonialism problem while some of his left supporters have a deification problem. Recently Joel Bergman posted “Eby betrays indigenous people — Lewis refuses to criticize him”. In his Facebook statement the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party noted, “David Eby, the NDP premier of British Columbia, has moved to amend the... 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 →
Dahlia Kurtz claims that Avi Lewis would have “snitched on Anne Frank’s family” and “joined the Nazis.” Incredibly, this Zionist influencer convinced the police to charge me for responding to her X posts and is suing Roger Waters and I for defamation. Kurtz recently posted, “The new leader of Canada’s leftist party is self-proclaimed anti-Zionist... 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 →
Avi Lewis is right to not boost the genocidal warmongers. The NDP leadership candidate didn’t join other dippers and ‘pro-Palestinian’ thought leaders in encouraging an authoritarian Zionist frenzy. On Sunday genocidal fanatic Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar called foreign minister Anita Anand to express the rogue apartheid state’s “concerns regarding a series of shooting attacks... Continue Reading →
Describing itself as a “platform” for the US empire, NATO is supporting war on Iran and radically increased military spending. Yet the ‘left’s’ standard bearer in the NDP leadership race won’t support members calling for Canada to withdraw from NATO even as leading left politicians in Europe push to exit the alliance. On Thursday... Continue Reading →
Does Avi Lewis back monarchical rule in Iran? The NDP leadership candidate and the party’s foreign critic have echoed some of the pretext for the US/Israeli aggression, which has already killed over 1,200. In a statement critical of Mark Carney’s support for US/Israeli war on Iran Lewis wrote, “These leaders justify this war as serving... Continue Reading →
NATO support for aggression against Iran makes it even more important for Avi Lewis to declare his position on the belligerent military alliance. Will the NDP frontrunner support members who are bringing a resolution to the upcoming convention calling for Canada to withdraw from NATO? In multiple recent interviews NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis isn’t responsible for the decades of anti-Palestinian activism, but his recounting of family lore shouldn’t lead some to believe the family most responsible for NDP anti-Palestinianism were “anti-Zionist”. Yesterday Keith Porteous of Island Grapevine News emailed me to complain about an article in which I (in passing) labelled grandfather David Lewis a “fanatic... Continue Reading →
Yes, Avi Lewis is a “warmonger”. He’s more hawkish than Jean Chrétien on the NATO proxy war and has been silent on NDP militarism. I began a recent article asking “Is Avi Lewis a war monger? Does he want to prolong the costliest proxy war in Canadian history?” The piece detailed Lewis’ support for sending... Continue Reading →
Does Avi Lewis support NATO? Now is the time for leftists to ask his position on the belligerent military alliance. On Monday BC NDP Premier David Eby said he wants a new NATO bank to be headquartered in Vancouver. A few weeks earlier former NDP MP and Toronto mayor Olivia Chow called for her city... Continue Reading →
Is Avi Lewis a war monger? Does he want to prolong the costliest proxy war in Canadian history? His campaign’s response to a question on Ukraine suggests as much. Two months ago the Canadian Alliance for Solidarity with Ukraine asked NDP leadership candidates a series of questions including “their position on those on the left... Continue Reading →
Does Avi Lewis “profoundly disagree” with my campaign’s call to shut down the tar sands? Or to convert Real Estate Investment Trust units into co-ops? Or to expand indigenous jurisdiction? Or to eliminate billionaires? Or did Avi just want to distance himself from an anti-imperialist who has been widely smeared for challenging power? In a... Continue Reading →
The year of Canada’s radical militarist turn. 2025 was also “the year the No Debate Party refused to discuss this most significant political development”. “History will view 2025 as the year that our allied capital markets and banks swung full force supporting defence and security," explained Kevin Reed, president of the development research group for... Continue Reading →
“I think Yves should be allowed to run”. That would have been a simple, principled, statement from Avi Lewis. Nonetheless, his criticism of the unelected three person NDP vetting committee’s exclusion of our insurgent campaign adds to the pressure on the Federal Council to intervene against the subversion of party democracy. Yesterday Lewis emailed a... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis has driven his supporters down an authoritarian, anti-socialist, path. The NDP leadership candidate’s role in assisting the party establishment’s bid to crush an insurgent campaign doesn’t portend well for an individual whose family’s history is steeped in crushing the left. NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson has applauded an individual who fought for Hitler... Continue Reading →
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