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A few weeks ago the NDP held their party convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where they elected a new party leader and a new executive slate. Intrepid reporter Jay went to Winnipeg to check things out so you didn’t have to. Everything you never wanted to know about party politics, and more!

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The NDP

The CLC

The CCF

Avi Lewis’s platform

Morris Lewis

By the way: friend of the pod Molly' Crabapple’s book on the Jewish Labour Bund is now available for sale.

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Roger and Erica join Jay to commiserate about the excruciating experience of watching Louis Theroux’s new documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’. Is the Red Pill more of a reactionary social movement or a Patreon-based pyramid scheme? Is the Manosphere the new face of neo-Nazi propaganda or The Secret for Zoomer men? Can you escape the Matrix by becoming a…

In the midst of historic cuts to public services in Quebec, workers are fighting back. Jay sits down with Kiersten and Adam from Alliance Ouvrière (Workers Alliance; the organization that successfully unionized the Amazon warehouse outside Montreal) to talk about their Nos jobs, nos services campaign, which seeks to react to austerity by radicalizing workers, mobilizing fighting unions, and revitalizing the political strike as a weapon of the working class.

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Alliance Ouvrière

AO on Instagram and Facebook

Contact AO

Nurses’ sit-in at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital

The SAAQclic debacle

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A classic cancel culture episode. Clementine and Jay are joined by conflict mediator and zinester Juno Aventurine to talk about the relationship between trauma and cancel culture, the shadowiest of shadow parts, and the moral ambiguity of the human animal. We also talk about the stubborn spectre of identitarianism and the trials and tribulations of exit…

The governing party in Quebec, the CAQ, continues its death spasms with yet another project no one asked for and everybody hates: a new constitution for Quebec, decided on with no mandate and written without any popular consultation. In Episode 91 Jay sits down with Christopher Curtis, founder of independent journalism outlet The Rover, to unravel the insane tangle of arrogance, corruption and stupidity that is the Quebec political class. Plus: Chris reveals the secret behind Montreal’s comically (some might say criminally) bad roads.

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Christopher Curtis on Instagram

The Rover

Bill 1 (Québec Constitution Act 2025)

The CAQ (Coalition Avenir Quebec)

The PQ (Parti Québécois)

Laïcité (French secularism)

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Patriation

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In the dying days of the Russian Empire, tens of thousands of working-class Yiddish-speaking Jews, radicalized by the triple oppression of capitalism, Tsarism and antisemitism, formed an anti-Zionist socialist party called the Jewish Labour Bund. Hugely influential on the worldwide socialist movement and at its height the largest socialist organization in Russia, the Bund remains for many anti-Zionist Jews (and other socialists) an inspiring example of bravery and committed internationalism in the face of impossible odds. In Episode 90, author and artist Molly Crabapple joins Jay to talk about her new book on the Bund, Here Where We Live is Our Country. In the process of researching this fantastic book, Molly taught herself Yiddish and pored through original sources originally belonging to her great-grandfather, himself a Bundist in his youth. We also discuss the state of antisemitism, real and imagined, in the wake of the Gaza genocide.

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Here Where We Live is Our Country

Molly’s website

Molly’s Instagram

Defiance by Loubna Mrie

Theodor Herzl on Wikipedia

The Pale of Settlement on Wikipedia

Yiddish on Wikipedia

History of Liberia on Wikipedia

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In Episode 89, Erica, Roger and Jay get together to talk about ICE as the MAGA paramilitary, the ‘don’t tread on me’ to ‘please tread on me’ pipeline, the ideological emptiness and racially diverse character of contemporary American fascism, liberal myths about reality, and what is — and is not — a general strike.

Erica Thomas is a labour organizer, professor and artist. Roger Peet is an artist, writer and head of comms for the Portland DSA.

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Erica’s IG

Episode 82 with Erica Thomas

Roger’s IG

Episode 74 with Roger Peet

Tom Homan

The Glooper

Carney’s speech at Davos

Join DSA

Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by Alyssa Battistoni

All Fours by Miranda July

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In Episode 88 we’re joined by Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. We talk about the importance of unions in confronting the many problems of this dystopian timeline and how the model of worker-to-worker unionism is necessary to scale up unionization and create an effective labour movement. We also discuss the recent uptick in labour organizing in North America, including high-profile union drives at Starbucks and Amazon, and what workers are doing to win these struggles. We finish off with a little discussion of Young Cardamom, AKA Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City.

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Eric’s book We Are the Union

Eric’s Substack, laborpolitics.com

Eric’s Instagram

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)

Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Points the Way Forward, by Eric Blanc, in Jacobin

More articles by Eric Blanc in Jacobin

An update on the Amazon situation in Quebec

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On November 2, 2025, Montreal heads to the polls. We talk to Craig Sauvé, leader of the new left-wing party Transition Montreal, and punk rock candidate for city councillor, Sergio Da Silva. We discuss left-wing proposals for public safety, public workers for public works, what to do about housing and homelessness, and how to save nightlife in Canada’s cultural capital.

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Transition Montreal’s website

Transition Montreal’s Instagram

Craig’s Instagram

Sergio’s Instagram

Cult MTL on the election

TVA calling Sergio’s neck tattoo controversial

The Charbonneau Commission

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In Episode 86 we’re joined again by journalist Isaac Peltz to catch up on some Canadian politics. The new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, wants to read your mail and access your internet data without a warrant, while Quebec wants to abolish your right to strike and Ontario wants to turn the habitats of endangered species into Special Economic Zones where corporations don’t have to follow laws.

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The ‘Strong Borders Act’

Bill 5, the ‘Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act’

Quebec’s new law limiting strikes

Jay’s article ‘Green’ Elites vs Left Green Populism

René Lévesque

Maurice Duplessis

Quebec’s Quiet Revolution

Isaac Peltz on Instagram

Isaac Peltz on TikTok

Isaac’s LinkTree

Isaac’s Substack

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