I’ve been following your work for almost ten years and I think this article and the recent Q and A episode of your podcast where you more broadly laid out what you want the future of the NDP to look like have energized me like nothing else.
I want to fight for a party where it would be impossible to confuse it with a liberal party, where it’s not the cliche liberal speech of how a candidate spoke to a farmer who said they need a baroque tax credit program that they were going to do anyways, I want a party where it’s possible for a hotel worker who is a dues paying member of the party themselves to democratically come up with an idea and the rest of the party hears agrees with and fights for together.
Let’s goooooo! I really value your opinion and the fact that it matches my own is giving me a lot of confidence. Checking in from Winnipeg, where there is a small but dedicated ground team for Avi and the things he stands for.
Love to read this Luke and welcome to the team. I've been volunteering with the Vancouver branch for the past 3 months and it has been really inspiring to see the momentum build to where it is today.
I agree that this is an incredibly opportune time to rebuild and reorient the party, and that Avi is our best bet to do so. And I'm organizing with some pretty radical people and yet Avi doesn't scare my boomer Mom (love you mom). Socialism can indeed be a big tent, and it's fucking wet out there right now.
“A democratic culture capable of accommodating good faith debate and accepting disagreement is a strength not a weakness, just as the active participation of members is not incompatible with the effective use of data, polling, and message discipline. Debates and disagreements will inevitably exist within a movement that spans a large and complex country and writing them off as inherently “divisive” reflects a conservative attitude reminiscent of the DNC establishment’s cynical attacks on figures like Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.”
Then why did Avi Lewis’s campaign push so hard and so dirty against Yves Engler’s candidacy? Why did the NDP apparatchiks exclude Engler from the race? Why did the party refuse Engler to attend party events? Such BS!
Lewis is going to have to push hard and fast for Proportionate Representation(PR) to expand the party's fortunes. FPTP heavily favors the LibCon cabal and that has to change so we truly have rep by pop.
I’ve been following your work for almost ten years and I think this article and the recent Q and A episode of your podcast where you more broadly laid out what you want the future of the NDP to look like have energized me like nothing else.
I want to fight for a party where it would be impossible to confuse it with a liberal party, where it’s not the cliche liberal speech of how a candidate spoke to a farmer who said they need a baroque tax credit program that they were going to do anyways, I want a party where it’s possible for a hotel worker who is a dues paying member of the party themselves to democratically come up with an idea and the rest of the party hears agrees with and fights for together.
I’m not Canadian but I did travel to Quebec and it’s true: you do need to win seats there to govern 😎
Thanks for this. I would love to know what the other candidates’ platforms are. Bit I will do my own homework I guess.
Let’s goooooo! I really value your opinion and the fact that it matches my own is giving me a lot of confidence. Checking in from Winnipeg, where there is a small but dedicated ground team for Avi and the things he stands for.
Love to read this Luke and welcome to the team. I've been volunteering with the Vancouver branch for the past 3 months and it has been really inspiring to see the momentum build to where it is today.
I agree that this is an incredibly opportune time to rebuild and reorient the party, and that Avi is our best bet to do so. And I'm organizing with some pretty radical people and yet Avi doesn't scare my boomer Mom (love you mom). Socialism can indeed be a big tent, and it's fucking wet out there right now.
“A democratic culture capable of accommodating good faith debate and accepting disagreement is a strength not a weakness, just as the active participation of members is not incompatible with the effective use of data, polling, and message discipline. Debates and disagreements will inevitably exist within a movement that spans a large and complex country and writing them off as inherently “divisive” reflects a conservative attitude reminiscent of the DNC establishment’s cynical attacks on figures like Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.”
Then why did Avi Lewis’s campaign push so hard and so dirty against Yves Engler’s candidacy? Why did the NDP apparatchiks exclude Engler from the race? Why did the party refuse Engler to attend party events? Such BS!
Lewis is going to have to push hard and fast for Proportionate Representation(PR) to expand the party's fortunes. FPTP heavily favors the LibCon cabal and that has to change so we truly have rep by pop.