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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 10d

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

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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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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 10d

Hey y'all! This week we have John Clarke writing on the strategic lessons to draw from the recent Air Canada strike.

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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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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 16d

Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social

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NEW: David Camfield on the important wins and equally significant missed opportunities of the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike.

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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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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: David Camfield on the important wins and equally significant missed opportunities of the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike.

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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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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social

Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Aug 19

NEW: Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran.

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Useful Enemies

Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran.

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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Aug 19

NEW: Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran.

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Useful Enemies

Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran.

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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · Jul 18

Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social

Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Jul 18

NEW: Midnight Sun speaks to Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders.

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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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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Jul 18

NEW: Midnight Sun speaks to Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders.

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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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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · Jul 13

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/

Villiform
Or: Refiguring Our Disabilities as Poetic Constraints

Jade Wallace

We are confined, the well and the
unwell, by the cadenced demands
our bodies make. Countable as

the beats of a villanelle are
the hours that pass until need will
compel us to pause and cast for

water to slake the thirst that con
stricts us, both well and unwell. While
we may delay, we cannot dis

Header says "Midnight Sun" and beneath is an image of a sanderling (small sea bird) running across a beach.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · Jun 24

Todd Gordon is an editor of @midnightsunmag.bsky.social , where you can read his February critique of the nationalist turn in Canadian politics.

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Todd Gordon – Midnight Sun

A magazine of socialist strategy, analysis, and culture.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · Jun 24

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.

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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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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Jun 11

NEW: In their poem “Villiform,” Jade Wallace (@nycterosea.bsky.social) playfully refigures disability as poetic constraint.

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Villiform

In a new poem, Jade Wallace playfully refigures disability as poetic constraint.

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Alberta Advantage Podcast @albertaadvantage.bsky.social · Jun 10

NEW EP: Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser
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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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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · May 20

Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social

Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · May 20

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).

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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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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · May 20

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).

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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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Dave Gray-Donald @dgrdon.bsky.social · Apr 18

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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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Apr 17

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).

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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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Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social · Apr 6

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · Apr 4

Something 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!

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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · Apr 1

Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social: @johncke.bsky.social on transforming the trade war into class war.

Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Apr 1

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.

www.midnightsunmag.ca

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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Apr 1

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.

www.midnightsunmag.ca

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · Apr 1

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.
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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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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Mar 7

NEW: Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.

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Ritual and Repetition

Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.

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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · Mar 7

Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social

Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Mar 7

NEW: Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.

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Ritual and Repetition

Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.

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Jenie Gao @jeniegao.bsky.social · Mar 7

"Everything around us is striving to break us, one corrosive myth at a time. What if we were to keep going with our organizing, even when we don’t always have faith in ourselves?"

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💙📚 #authorsky #disabilityjustice #freepalestine

Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Mar 7

NEW: Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.

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Ritual and Repetition

Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.

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Daniel Sarah Karasik @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social · Mar 7

today in Midnight Sun Magazine, really excited to publish Jane Shi's beautiful piece on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action – thinking by turns with Octavia E. Butler, Jody Chan, Wendy Trevino, Isabella Hammad, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, Salar Mohandesi, and others

Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · Mar 7

NEW: Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.

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Ritual and Repetition

Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.

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