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@arpbooks.bsky.social

Activist press publishing literary and scholarly books for 30 years. Non-fiction, poetry, fiction with emphasis on critical leftist analysis of contemporary issues. Winnipeg, Treaty 1 arpbooks.org

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Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 6d ago

Mark Carney promised "elbows-up" nation-building. What Canadians are getting instead is a carve-out economy—where environmental protections, Indigenous rights, and labour standards are treated as obstacles to growth, write @shirip.bsky.social and Eve Saint.

The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy

It has been one year since Mark Carney introduced the Building Canada Act in Parliament. Since then, a succession of new laws has hollowed out legal protections for the environment, Indigenous rights,...

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Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The issue is not that the exhibition contains historical errors—it does not. The issue is that it tells the Palestinian story from the perspective of Palestinians." Nahla Abdo responds to the backlash against the 'Palestine Uprooted' exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human rights:

Nahla Abdo: the Nakba is not an error in curation

Nahla Abdo, a member of the Palestinian Content Advisory Network that reviewed the content of Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, responds to Minister Marc Miller’s remarks and argues that the...

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ARP Books@arpbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

“If this paratactic process is notable for having a sort of punk rock accessibility, it won’t surprise readers to find there is both a strong anticapitalist momentum and a thrilling musicality permeating the collection” Read a great review of Cam Scott’s MANOR’S RANSOM in the latest issue of CV2

CV2 Magazine@cv2magazine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy spring, readers The world is a mess, but that’s nothing new Luckily, we still have poetry And luckily, the poetry still has you Thank you, poets Thank you, readers We love you all CV2 Join us on Zoom June 2nd @ 7pm CST for the launch of the Spring Issue! Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

BDS movement@bdsmovement.bsky.social · 4w ago

To mark 21 years of BDS here is just a sampling of the remarkable BDS impacts achieved in the first half of 2026 — proof that organizing strategically and acting collectively can bring us closer to ending Israel's genocide and dismantling its regime of settler-colonial apartheid. loom.ly/Uby_XbY

The power of BDS: Our impact so far in 2026

Organizing strategically and acting collectively brings us closer to ending complicity in Israel's genocide and apartheid.

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ARP Books@arpbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

“This can only happen once Canada becomes unshackled from the economic reasons it remains tethered to its perpetuation of the oppression of Indigenous peoples.” -from Ellen Gabriel’s “By Any Means Necessary Canada 150—No Reason To Celebrate as an Onkwehón:we Peoples” in Surviving Canada (2017)

“Settlers whose eyes have opened up to the not-so-invisible class system of the Americas have now joined those who have remained dedicated to the teachings of our ancestors, who desire to leave a legacy for future generations in caring for the land and the environment. Ours is a system that sadly continues to oppress us all, Indigenous and settler alike. Like a film covering our eyes, the government propaganda machine continues to place emphasis on jobs, energy… and a "strong" (read: white) economy, and unless you can get on the "let's make money bandwagon," then you are an enemy of the state, and deserving to be poor and disenfranchised. While I realize that 2017 marks Canadas 150 anniversary, and that some Indigenous peoples will join in the celebration, I think of how little has changed in our realities. The Canadian government still controls every part of our lives, our history is still not being told in an honest manner, and Indigenous peoples are still being criminalized for insisting on justice. As Indigenous peoples, we have not even been allowed to grieve properly for all the losses we have experienced. I await the day when I will witness Canadians…actually accepting responsibility for the harms colonization has caused Indigenous peoples, beyond the many harms of the Indian Residential Schools system. All of it. Canadians must understand the impact on us of the loss of our languages, our hardships in trying to rebuild our nations traditional governance, cultures, lands, and resources. Fear, greed, and a heartless disregard for the family units of Indigenous peoples have brought us to the point where I don't think our ancestors would recognize who we are today or the land they so lovingly used. This is what Canadians must come to understand-not just with their heads, but also with their hearts. This can only happen once Canada becomes unshackled from the economic reasons it remains tethered to its perpetuation of the oppression of Indigenous peoples.” Photo of book on glass table, with title in red and black italicized non-serif all-caps, and a graphic of an inverted Canadian flag after the word Canada taking up the entire front cover: SURVIVING CANADA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF BETRAYAL edited by Kiera Ladner and Myra J Tait
Progressive International@progintl.bsky.social · last mo.

Canada is fast-tracking critical mineral mining while U.S. Pentagon funding and ownership stakes quietly redirect those minerals toward American weapons production. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and IT.

Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines

Canada is fast-tracking critical mineral mining while U.S. Pentagon funding and ownership stakes quietly redirect those minerals toward American weapons production.

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PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · 2mo ago

Mark Carney’s government is rushing through major changes to Canada’s labour laws. Unions say workers should be alarmed. Unions are warning Carney’s government is planning to place limits on the right to strike and deliver other items on “Corporate Canada’s wish list”

Mark Carney’s Government is Rushing Through Major Changes to Canada’s Labour Laws. Unions Say Workers Should Be Alarmed.

Unions are warning Carney is planning to place limits on the right to strike and deliver other items on 'Corporate Canada's wish list'

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Freedom to Read Project@freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

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IATSE Canada | AIEST Canada@iatsecanada.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Employés d'Arbeiter Ring Publishing (ARP Books) ont ratifié à l'unanimité, le mardi 10 février, leur première convention collective avec la section locale 63 de Winnipeg de l'Alliance internationale des employés de scène de théâtre (IATSE)

ARP Books@arpbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Seeing ourselves [artists] as a small yet significant part of a wider struggle frees us from the trap of toxic hyperindividualism, and this means we can fully participate in the cultural boycott, which is fundamentally a strategic, power-building tactic.“ www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’

Four years after Rooney cited BDS in declining a different Israeli publisher, she speaks with activist Samir Eskanda about the artist’s role in the boycott movement

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ARP Books@arpbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of But have we arrived?, Suzanne Morrissette's insightful reckoning with liberalism's failed promises to Indigenous artists against the politics of inclusion and reconciliation.

Book cover against beige background, features collage image in monochromatic dark red and coral of a treed outcropping from the right over water and against a flat sky, with a deep shadow cast across the surrounding ripples, ending at a curved cutout near image bottom and title and author in black text, centre bottom: But have we arrived? Suzanne Morrissette
UBCIC@ubcic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The Indian Act turned 150 years old this year. This piece of racist and sexist colonial legislation continues its objective of eliminating the ‘Indian problem’ by assimilating First Nations people through the second-generation cut-off,” Chief Marilyn Slett www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_in_ott...

UBCIC in Ottawa to Demand End to Sex Discrimination and MMIWG2S+ Crisis after 150 Years of Indian Act Rule

Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

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ARP Books@arpbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Over 2 yrs ago ARP publicly endorsed BDS’s PACBI campaign. The need for PACBI is as urgent as ever, and with approx 150 arts organizations across the country committed, the campaign is effectively mainstreamed and still growing www.bdsmovement.net/pacbi

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. It advocates for a b...

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Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ric Esther Bienstock’s 'SPEECHLESS' sets out to explore campus free speech, but delivers a disingenuous narrative that reduces students to caricatures and leaves the deeper struggles over power, knowledge, and (in)justice in the university largely unexamined. Read Rinaldo Walcott's review:

Why Ric Esther Bienstock’s ‘Speechless’ left me speechless

Ric Esther Bienstock’s Speechless sets out to examine campus free speech, but delivers a familiar, flattened narrative instead. By caricaturing students and privileging certain voices, the film obscur...

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