Working class revolutionary socialist. Bus driver, teacher, and parent. "No Class No Family" thesis (2019); "A Separate Star" essays (2023); "Un" poems (2022).
Not far north enough
Joined August 2020
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Recent book length publications:
Red Braid Alliance, "A Separate Star: Politics & Strategy..." arpbooks.org/product/a-separ…
"Un: Poems" talonbooks.com/books/?un
"No Class No Family: Women's resistance... in Vancouver's last brothel district, 1911-14" summit.sfu.ca/item/19545
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Big news out of BC today: Amazon workers organized with @UniforTheUnion have secured a binding collective agreement, the first in North America:
unifor.org/news/all-news/ama…
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After a considerable amount of work by many people, our report on Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Palestinian discrimination at the University of Toronto was just published. Please read it's 175 pages: people.utoronto.ca/wp-conten…
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After the electoral defeat of right-wing and neofascist forces in Brazil, Serbia and the United States, could the wind be turning in favor of our class in Europe? We will discuss it this Synday. Zoom link and more linktr.ee/fourth.internation…
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CAWLS annual conference call for proposals - Making History: Workers, Conflict, and Collective Action | Brock University, St. Catharines ON, Jun 2-4, 2027
cawls.ca/en/2027-annual-conf…
In the @wrkclasshistory podcasts included in the readings for this event, there’s the most wonderful archival clip. A woman striker from 1926 says, very plainly, “there weren’t many lorries running, and less after we tipped over a few,” and someone in the background cracks up
Our educational on the British Strike is Sunday, November 15th at 1 PM EST. Hear from Callum Cant and Matthew Lee, authors of The Future In Our Past. To learn more and register for free, go to solidarity-us.org or click the link in bio. 🔗 #Politics #Solidarity #Socialism
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for anyone seized by the Hype Moment of the old italian Red Brigade member fleeing arrest, i find these books good glosses of the Brigades' history. (See alt text for descriptions and more legible titles)
ALT " Strike One To Educate One Hundred " by the pseudonymous ' Seeds Beneath the Snow' collective (actually Chris Aronson Beck et al ) . Has a more positive evaluation of the Brigades' impact and perhaps self-importance .
ALT " States of Emergency : Cultures of Revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978 " by Robert Lumley. To mind, Lumley gives a more balanced or critical view of the Brigades, and covers them in one chapter alongside others on the wholeperiod. More on the brigades, at least, than other histories like Steve Wright's.
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The average rate of intimate partner violence across the country has risen for the eighth straight year.
Statistics Canada data shows the average rate of police-reported intimate partner violence was 2% higher in 2025 compared to 2024. The most recent numbers are up 15% from 2018.
“We’re in this anti-feminist backlash," one expert said on the rise of reported intimate partner violence cases across Canada.
globalnews.ca/news/12146489/…
Book talk this Sunday on @CallumCant1 and Matthew Lee's "The Future in Our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026", excavating the 100th anniversary of the British general strike and lockout
Our educational on the British Strike is Sunday, November 15th at 1 PM EST. Hear from Callum Cant and Matthew Lee, authors of The Future In Our Past. To learn more and register for free, go to solidarity-us.org or click the link in bio. 🔗 #Politics #Solidarity #Socialism
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Our educational on the British Strike is Sunday, November 15th at 1 PM EST. Hear from Callum Cant and Matthew Lee, authors of The Future In Our Past. To learn more and register for free, go to solidarity-us.org or click the link in bio. 🔗 #Politics #Solidarity #Socialism
Nice to see GregRob clinging to Clr Kerry Jang’s definition of affordability as “something someone can afford”
135 new affordable homes for women in Vancouver.
Soroptimist House shows what we can accomplish when we work together to build more affordable housing.
Through Budget 2026, we’re building more homes like these across Canada, because everyone deserves a safe, affordable place to call home.
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In October I gave a talk on the history (and my experiences) of socialist organizing with unemployed and poor peoples movements. Here's a report on that discussion, including links to video of my talk:
Working class unity includes the unemployed solidarity-us.org/working-cl…
ALT Toledo Auto-Lite strike, 1934, where unemployed workers (in the midst of the Depression) played a critical role as shock troops in battle against actual troops sent in to crush the strike
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Carney's Minister of Housing is former Vancouver Mayor Gregor "End Street Homelessness (2010)" Robertson. We've heard this before.
In Canada, we take care of each other.
ALT Screenshot of an article from the Toronto Star. The headline reads: Federal budget outlines plan to end homelessness within 10 years.
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Watching my old comrade Herb Varley's memorial from home with my toddler. Wishing I was there. More, wishing Herb was here. I love you Herb.
ALT Herb in a media scrum, June 2013
ALT Herb receiving a door prize at the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council monthly meeting, December 2011
ALT Herb speaking at a rally against condos at 138 E Hastings, 2011
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Panel on the centenary of THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE & LOCKOUT, Sunday November 15th, 1pm ET.
With CALLUM CANT and MATTHEW LEE, authors of the new book, The Future in Our Past: The General Strike, 1927/2026.
Registration (*and readings) solidarity-us.org/the-britis…
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Join B&R and MES-PSOL to discuss the results of the Brazilian elections and the US midterms, and the tasks of socialists in this new political period. RSVP for the zoom link.
Did Lanterns use AI generated "actors" for this scene? (This whole show is iffy AI terrain but this scene really screams it)
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My latest for @CDN_Dimension "Wab Kinew's Dangerous Distraction: History shows why First Nations have every reason to be wary of governments calling to tear up the Indian Act." There is always something more at play... #cdnpoli #indianact #firstnations
canadiandimension.com/articl…
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I can hardly imagine anyone who hasn’t seen this photograph. But it was taken on this day in 2000.
I cannot believe the photo is 26 years old now.
The boy in the photograph was Fares Odeh. He was just 14 years old.
Ten days after this image was captured, Fares went out again to throw stones at Israeli tanks, seeking to avenge the killing of his 17-year-old cousin.
An Israeli sniper shot him in the neck, killing him.
And there is another chilling detail to this photograph.
The photo changed Israeli tank doctrine. In August 2001, The Jerusalem Post quoted an anonymous tank doctrinist saying tank personnel were now instructed to fire upon rock-throwers.
