Midnight Sun Magazine
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A magazine of socialist strategy, analysis, and culture. By the midnight sun we make our plans for daybreak. midnightsunmag.ca
It’s in the nature of a sun to rise and set. After five years, Midnight Sun Magazine is winding down. www.midnightsunmag.ca/farewell-fro...
Farewell from Midnight Sun
It’s in the nature of a sun to rise and set. After five years, Midnight Sun Magazine is winding down.
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"Capitalism has never exploited a generic labour force in the abstract. It has always organized labour through difference. Colonialism, slavery, immigration regimes, citizenship hierarchies and racial segmentation are not side stories to its development; they are among its principal mechanisms."
Midnight Sun Magazine@midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 6mo agoNEW: Richard Roys on breaking down persistent false oppositions between anti-racism and class politics in Quebec, France, and beyond. www.midnightsunmag.ca/class-domina...
NEW: Richard Roys on breaking down persistent false oppositions between anti-racism and class politics in Quebec, France, and beyond. www.midnightsunmag.ca/class-domina...
Class Domination is Organized and Reproduced Through Racism
Richard Roys on breaking down persistent false oppositions between anti-racism and class politics in Quebec, France, and beyond.
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“Destabilized and in crisis, the federal NDP may today be more open to a socialist and democratic reorientation than it has been at any point in the last few decades, even if conservative forces within the party will certainly put up a fight.”
Midnight Sun Magazine@midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 7mo agoNEW: Marcel Nelson and Nathan Rao on the possibilities and potential pitfalls of Avi Lewis’s campaign for the NDP leadership. www.midnightsunmag.ca/out-of-the-i...
NEW: Marcel Nelson and Nathan Rao on the possibilities and potential pitfalls of Avi Lewis’s campaign for the NDP leadership. www.midnightsunmag.ca/out-of-the-i...
Out of the Impasse? The Avi Lewis Campaign and Left Strategy
Marcel Nelson and Nathan Rao on the possibilities and potential pitfalls of Avi Lewis’s campaign for the NDP leadership.
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NEW: Mostafa Henaway (@mhenaway.bsky.social) on the emergence of the Carney doctrine in Canadian politics: elbows up and austerity for the many. www.midnightsunmag.ca/crisis-as-cl...
Crisis as Class Strategy
Mostafa Henaway on the emergence of the Carney doctrine in Canadian politics: elbows up and austerity for the many.
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John Clarke is a longtime organizer with Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. John's written for a variety of venues including us and @midnightsunmag.bsky.social www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...
From Trade War to Class War
John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
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Hey y'all! This week we have John Clarke writing on the strategic lessons to draw from the recent Air Canada strike. spectrejournal.com/lessons-from...
Lessons from the Air Canada Strike – Spectre Journal
John Clarke argues for a rank-and-file movement to break combat back-to-work legislation.
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NEW: David Camfield on the important wins and equally significant missed opportunities of the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike. www.midnightsunmag.ca/the-air-cana...
The Air Canada Flight Attendants' Strike and the Need for Greater Union Democracy
David Camfield on the important wins and equally significant missed opportunities of the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike.
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NEW: Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran. www.midnightsunmag.ca/useful-enemi...
Useful Enemies
Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran.
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NEW: Midnight Sun speaks to Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders. www.midnightsunmag.ca/internationa...
Internationalizing the Coalition
A conversation with Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders.
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It's been a minute (1.5 years) since I've had a poem out in a mag, and what a mag to be back with: @midnightsunmag.bsky.social has published "Villiform," a deconstructed villanelle whose central conceit is about disability as a kind of poetic constraint for living. www.midnightsunmag.ca/villiform/
Todd Gordon is an editor of @midnightsunmag.bsky.social , where you can read his February critique of the nationalist turn in Canadian politics. www.midnightsunmag.ca/tag/todd-gor...
Todd Gordon – Midnight Sun
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Hey y'all! This Tuesday we've got @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social writing on Trumpism as a specific variety of authoritarianism and it's connection to a liberalism in crisis. spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...
Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal
Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
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NEW: In their poem “Villiform,” Jade Wallace (@nycterosea.bsky.social) playfully refigures disability as poetic constraint. www.midnightsunmag.ca/villiform/
Villiform
In a new poem, Jade Wallace playfully refigures disability as poetic constraint.
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NEW EP: Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/06/09/p...
Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser
Join our live show Friday June 13 6PM – Royal Canadian Legion #1, 116 7 Ave SE, Calgary – Free Entry – Register here! Public sector pensions are one of the hard-won victories of t…
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Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social
Midnight Sun Magazine@midnightsunmag.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: David Camfield on current conditions – and hope – for communists. An excerpt from Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (@fernpub.bsky.social). www.midnightsunmag.ca/what-can-we-...
NEW: David Camfield on current conditions – and hope – for communists. An excerpt from Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (@fernpub.bsky.social). www.midnightsunmag.ca/what-can-we-...
What Can We Hope For?
David Camfield on current conditions – and hope – for communists. An excerpt from Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (Fernwood Publishing).
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An excerpt of Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al. is up at @midnightsunmag.bsky.social. Author Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher begins unpacking the gaps in historical knowledge, adding details to our understanding of the Marx family that have long been ignored. www.midnightsunmag.ca/a-family-of-...
A Family of Thinkers
Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher on the women in Marx’s life and the rediscovery of feminist histories. An excerpt from Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al.: This is Not a Book About Marx.
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NEW: Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher on the women in Marx’s life and the rediscovery of feminist histories. An excerpt from Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al.: This is Not a Book About Marx, (@btlbooks.com). www.midnightsunmag.ca/a-family-of-...
A Family of Thinkers
Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher on the women in Marx’s life and the rediscovery of feminist histories. An excerpt from Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al.: This is Not a Book About Marx.
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Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · 2y agoSomething I see three or four times a week on my feed is "why isn't there a left-leaning version of the alt-right media ecosystem" and just stop asking the question because we all know the answer, the answer is that there's no money for it! No money means no alternative media ecosystem! That's it!
Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social: @johncke.bsky.social on transforming the trade war into class war.
Midnight Sun Magazine@midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US. www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...
NEW: John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US. www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...
From Trade War to Class War
John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
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In the face of #Trump's #tradewar, 'our' capitalists and their political representatives will try to make the working-class carry the burden. Instead of joining 'Team Canada,' we will need to fight back. My article for @midnightsunmag.bsky.social. www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...
From Trade War to Class War
John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
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NEW: Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action. www.midnightsunmag.ca/ritual-and-r...
Ritual and Repetition
Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.
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