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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

This is a rare chance to hear from movement leaders and policy authors about building real socialist power!

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

-- as well as Jasmine Peardon who speaks to the democratic, grassroots process that produced our just-released policy platform: Capitalism can’t be fixed – onwards to a socialist future. (NDP2026.ca)

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

Alongside Kshama, Yves Engler shares his vision for transforming the NDP into a fighting, socialist party rooted in anti-imperialism, justice for Palestine, climate action, and economic democracy.
The webinar also features lifelong socialist Tom Reid

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon to pay $250 million/year in taxes to fund social housing and leading countless struggles against corporate power.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

Hear from Kshama Sawant, revolutionary socialist activist, economist, and politician from Seattle. Kshama made history by winning the first $15 minimum wage in a major U.S. city, forcing

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

Our jobs program guarantees a just transition, not only for workers in the tar sands, but for all workers."

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

We intend to build more parks, more community centres, modern libraries and leisure centres. We envision an expansion of public space and public services, as we transition to a low emission sustainable economy.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

but they will now be guaranteed work placement and any necessary training. "This plan unfolds alongside a massive expansion of the care economy." Yves continued, "We will have more people working in childcare, in healthcare, in eldercare, in education and public services.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

We can provide meaningful work for everyone."
The universal jobs program will revolutionize the labour market and the way workers transition between jobs. Workers will of course be able to accept work from any employer that hires them,

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

It would also serve as an entry point for workers newly joining the workforce. "It's time to tip the scales in favour of workers", said insurgent NDP leadership candidate Yves Engler "Everyone has something to contribute. There is certainly no shortage of work to do.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 1d

An Yves Engler NDP government would end unemployment in Canada by establishing a universal jobs program. Our universal jobs program would work in conjunction with the Employment Insurance system to transition workers into meaningful work without loss of income.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

If we can’t discuss issues like capitalism, imperialism and genocide during a leadership race, then when can we? If we are not allowed to put forward criticisms of our party, how can it ever change?

Isn’t it supposed to be the New DEMOCRATIC Party?

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‘Vetting’ gives a few insiders power to decide party policy - Yves Engler

The influence of billionaires. First past the post voting. Corporate lobbyists. There are many obstacles to genuine political democracy in Canada. A significant, if little discussed, hurdle is the pow...

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

Blocking candidates from nomination races because they express different opinions is a fundamental threat to party democracy. It leads to depoliticized nomination races, where the only thing to discuss is the cosmetic qualities of the candidates.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

Isn’t the leadership race (and policy conventions) where the NDP’s “core values” are determined?
Shouldn’t party democracy be the vetting process for political differences?

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

According to the NDP leadership race rules, a prospective applicant can be excluded if they don’t comply with “the principles and core values of the Party.”

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

Initially justified as a means of preventing surprises during election campaigns, vetting processes are now used to assert centralized control. In the ongoing federal leadership race a committee of three backroom officials decides if members are even allowed to evaluate a potential candidate.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

In recent years, local ‘vetting’ processes have blocked candidates not because of any crime or transgression they may have committed, but as a form of political censorship. If only candidates that ‘toe the line’ are allowed, then our democracy is transformed into a superficial echo-chamber.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

because he had criticized the party after it failed to call on Israel to release his father who was arrested on a humanitarian boat bound for Gaza. Manly then won the seat for the Green Party in the 2019 election.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

In one of the more infamous examples, the NDP blocked Paul Manly, a filmmaker and son of a former NDP MP, from seeking the 2015 party candidacy in Nanaimo-Ladysmith,

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

Party officials said it was because they didn’t have the resources to go through his voluminous writings over the years but Eglin believes it was at least partly due to his longstanding support for Palestinians.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

In Kitchener Centre, retired professor Peter Eglin, whose wife is a city councillor who recently ran for the NDP provincially, was blocked from running in favour of an individual from outside of the city.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

NDP races because of seemingly arbitrary party vetting. One individual who wanted to run in London, Ontario, was ‘vetted’ for a year by the federal party until allowed to run in nearby rural riding the NDP had no chance of winning.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

How can we build support for fundamental social change when backroom decision makers can simply exclude the candidates seeking out radical transformation?
During my recent speaking events I heard from multiple individuals who were blocked from running in local

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

In the 2022 BC NDP leadership race, Anjali Appadurai was expelled from the race when it looked like she was going to win. In the last federal Green Party leadership race, eco-socialist Green Party of Quebec leader Alex Tyrell, was excluded from participating.

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader @yvesforndpleader.bsky.social · 3d

The influence of billionaires. First past the post voting. Corporate lobbyists. There are many obstacles to genuine political democracy in Canada. A significant, if little discussed, hurdle is the power party insiders have to determine who can run in election races.

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