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  1. Against Sectarianism
    The Challenge of the Labor Party
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1974
    Members of the Socialist League argue that Trotskyist-socialists should continue to work within the NDP with the goal of winning the ranks of the NDP to a socialist program.
  2. Agrarian Socialism
    The Cooperative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    A study of the social background of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan, which in 1944 became to first government with avowed socialist goals to be elected to office in Canada. The updated 1968 edition contains a new introduction and additional essays by five other scholars.
  3. Alex in Wonderland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  4. The Anatomy of a Party
    The National CCF 1932-1961
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    A history of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation focusing on the relationship between the CCF as a movement and as a political party.
  5. Can the NDP be Socialist?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    Simon Rosenblum argues that the left should work to transform the NDP, not ignore it.
  6. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
    A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
  7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  10. The Canadian Left
    A Critical Analysis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
  11. Canadian Socialism
    Essays on the CCF and the NDP
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  12. Catastrophe: The NDP lost because it deserved to
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    It is, ultimately, astounding how facile and false political narratives come back to haunt those who insist on their veracity.
  13. CEC mourns the loss of Jack Layton
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The Canadian Ethnocultural Council, (CEC) its members and supporters are saddened by the passing of the Honourable Jack Layton, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition and Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.
  14. Climate justice movement shakes Canada's New Democratic Party
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention, argues Richard Fidler, opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.
  15. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  17. David Lewis: tax aids won't create jobs
    'Welfare bums' attacks continue
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1972
    NDP leader David Lewis criticizes policies that favour corporations at the expense of working people.
  18. Debating the NDP
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Activists seeking radical change need to understand that it is fruitless to base their strategies on the assumption that the NDP can be the vehicle for achieving their goals.
  19. The Decline and Fall of a Good Idea
    CCF-NDP Manifestoes 1932 to 1969
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1974
    The party's manifestos over the decades. With an introduction by Michael W. Cross.
  20. The Dilemma of Canadian Socialism
    The C.C.F. in Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    The history of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Ontario, set in the context of the national movement.
  21. Douglas, Tommy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social democratic politician, CCF premier of Saskatchean and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1904-1986).
  22. Essays on the Left
    Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Essays collected as a tribute to T.C. Douglas on the occasion of his retirement ad leader of the New Democratic Party.
  23. From Protest to Power
    Personal Reflections on a Life in Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  24. Grace
    The Life of Grace MacInnis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  25. The Great Car Insurance Crash
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    The Ontario NDP's backpedalling from public auto insurance demonstrates that this government doesn't want to take the drivers seat.
  26. The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
  27. Imagine Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
  28. Jewish group to Layton: Investigate Israel/Palestine with Neutral Hosts
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The NDP should reject the invitation of the Canada-Israel Committee to host or facilitate a trip by Jack Layton and caucus members to Israel, says Independent Jewish Voices # Canada. They should be guided by party neutral to the conflict.
  29. Just winning next election not enough for Liberals or NDP
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    if there is a new government, it will come to power with the extreme right wing more entrenched than ever before.... Aggressive organizations are determined to maintain policies that tend to reward the rich and penalize the rest of us.
  30. A Leap Toward Radical Politics?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The Leap Manifesto is, in a way, Canada's version of the burst of Left and socialist energies that have come with the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Democratic Party in the U.S. and the Jeremy Corbyn leadership win in the Labour Party in Britain. As with these, the explosion of popular interest reflects general disquiet about the limits of recent protests demanding changes from the state but having no strategy to transform it, on the one hand; and disappointments with electoral politics and social democratic parties that only seem to reinforce neoliberalism, on the other.
  31. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
  32. Letter to Canadian Dimension
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1982
    The left of the NDP consists of a scraggly band of public service union bureaucrats, almost as out of touch with their union membership as the right wing, and a declining number of socialist academics ensconsced in their ivory towers. The traditional NDP left, whose link up with the 'new left' in the Waffle almost defeated the party leadership no longer exists.
  33. Lewis attacks Waffle, begins to purge faction from NDP
    Wafflers only allowed three-minute rebuttals
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1972
    In March 1972, Ontarion NDP leader Stephen Lewis delivered a major attack against the party's left-wing Waffle group, laying the ground for forcing the Waffle to either disband or to leave the party.
  34. Local NDP Fights to Keep Waffle Movement in Party
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1972
    The NDP's St. David provincial riding association is working to find a way of keeping the Waffle movement in the party, challenging Stephen Lewis's move to expel the Waffle.
  35. Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
  36. Louder Voices: The Corporate Welfare Bums
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    NDP leader Davis Lewis provides facts and analysis to support his charge that "government and big business are holding hands -- in your pocket."
  37. Grace MacInnis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    Canadian politician and feminist: obituary in the Connexions Digest.
  38. The Missing Political Party
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Argues that the political process in obsolete and that new forms of political organization are needed.
  39. Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
    The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A history of the Canadian Congress of Labour and of the CIO in Canada from the 1930s to the 1950s. The author raises many significant questions concerning the presence of American unions in Canada and the crucial role played by the Communist party in the history of the Canadian labour movement.
  40. NDP campaign enters panic mode
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    If in politics a week can be a lifetime, a month can be an eternity -- especially in an election campaign.
  41. NDP campaign enters panic mode
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    If in politics a week can be a lifetime, a month can be an eternity -- especially in an election campaign.
  42. The NDP: Can it make a difference?
    A marxist analysis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    How is it possible that the NDP, the only party which is not funded by big business, has been unable to capitalize on the anger amongst ordinary people? This pamphlet examines the roots of the collapse of the NDP and why it has been so slow to recover.
  43. NDP: The Dream of Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A history of Canada's New Democratic Party from its origins to 1973.
  44. The Need for a New Socialist Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
    It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
  45. New Democratic Party
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A social democratic party and a member of the Socialist International.
  46. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A book of essays on the 1960s New Left in Canada, by members of the New Left.
  47. No Bankers in Heaven
    Remembering the CCF
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    An oral history of men and women who devoted themselves to building the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
  48. Off the Record
    The CCF in Saskatchewan
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    An insider's account of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan.
  49. On the Defeat of Megan Leslie & Peter Stoffer
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    What happened on Monday is proof of how divorced from reality we are. Progressives, radicals, the Left, whatever you call the people who believe in and strive for deep social change - we are disconnected from the majority of people. We are insulated in our communities of like-minded activists, surrounded by people with similar beliefs and thoughts.
  50. The Ontario Waffle and the Struggle for an Independent and Socialist Canada: Conflict within the NDP
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    Published in Canadian Historical Review, 83.2 (June 1983)
  51. Our Canada
    The Story of the New Democratic Party Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    A rosy view of Canada's New Democratic Party.
  52. Our Generation
    Volume 1, Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1961
    The first issue of the journal Our Generation Against Nuclear War
  53. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1969
  54. Peggy Nash on NDP Policy on Nuclear Weapons Abolition
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    MP Peggy Nash to outline NDP policy on nuclear weapons abolition in Toronto during the Hiroshima/ Nagasaki commemoration ceremony August 9, 2012 (Nagasaki Day) at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto.
  55. A Prophet in Politics
    A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1959
    A biography of the Canadian socialist who became the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
  56. Queer Progress
    From Homophobia to Homonationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
  57. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2000
  58. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2006
  59. Rae Days
    The Rise and Follies of the NDP
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    An account of Bob Rae's New Democratic Party government in Ontario.
  60. Rebels, Reds, Radicals
    Rethinking Canada's Left History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
  61. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  62. Red Menace #3
    Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  63. Reformism - Social Democracy: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
  64. Right on the Marx
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
    The shared vision articulated by Ulli Diemer will never attain an organized and effective form unless it can be concretized into a series of political programmes, and eventually made real through one or many political organizations or parties.
  65. Shades of Grey -- A Left Chapter look at strategy, tactics and endorsements in the 2015 election
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    With just under two weeks to go until election day, anti-capitalist leftists are in something of a quandary.
  66. Toronto's Poor
    A Rebellious History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2916
    Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
  67. 12 map points to help the NDP to find its moral compass (and for that matter, the Liberals, too)
    Voters for Gaza: We Expect Better from the NDP!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    We believe silence is complicity, and think it is time for the NDP to find its moral compass and to end the deafening silence about Israel and the war crimes it is committing. The NDP, of all federal political parties, must speak out against the violence and rising civilian death toll in Gaza. We expect better from a party claiming a tradition of social justice, human rights and strong relationships to social movements.
  68. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
  69. Unity brings strength
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
  70. Waffle
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A group established in 1969 as a left-wing caucus within the New Democratic Party.
  71. Pie in the Sky: A History of the Ontario Waffle
    Special Waffle Edtion of Canadian Dimension October-November 1980
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    An analysis of the Waffle group, focuing on the Ontario Waffle but including its national context and its relationship to the federal NDP as well as to the Ontario NDP. Hackett stresses two main themes: the heterogeneity of the Waffle coaltion and the ambiguity of its task; and the limitations of the NDP as a potential vehicle for the socialist transformation of Canada, given the ideological traditions, and the political and social interests, which it embodies.
  72. The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1969
    The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
  73. The Waffle and the Women's Movements
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
    Published in Studies in Political Economy, 33 (Autumn 1990)
  74. Waiting for Democracy
    A Citizen's Journal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Rick Salutin's account of the pivotal 1988 "free trade" election. Waiting for Democracy makes a strong case that our political system is anything but democratic, though it offers little hope of changing it.
  75. Working Class Experience
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.

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