politics
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On Saturday, April 6, 2024, 42 coordinated actions swept across Turtle Island as organizers, land defenders, and community members gathered at Royal Bank of Canada branches from Vancouver to Ottawa to Halifax. The date was deliberate: Fossil Fools Day, five days before RBC’s Annual General Meeting in Etobicoke, where shareholders would assemble at the Toronto…
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Podcast Version Here The Doctrine of Discovery was the embodiment of the European ruling class’ insatiable desire for expansion and control over the New World. These powers, backed by papal authority, deployed the notion of terra nullius, meaning “nobody’s land,” to justify their claims over Indigenous territories across Turtle Island.¹ This era of so-called discovery…
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Decolonize socialism means confronting what the Marxist tradition gets right about exploitation — and what it gets wrong about whose land, labor, and social relations it was built to analyze. Where I Started and What Changed I came into leftist politics understanding myself as a cishet white settler male — French, Irish, Scottish heritage, born…
