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Twice Betrayed: The NDP, The YMCA, and Rana Zaman
Community Activist Rana Zaman talks about the rescinding of her YMCA Peace Medial and how, in 2019, the NDP set the stage for what she's going through…
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Layton’s Legacy and the Decline of the NDP
Listen now (58 mins) | Jessa McLean and Matt Fodor on how Jack Layton and his team changed the course of the NDP, why we need more than just a…
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Being Pragmatic: Inside the NS NDP
Hear from someone who had enough with the suppression of pro-Palestinian voices inside the NDP, and quit the Party in the middle of helping with the…
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Rabble Rant: Suppression, Solidarity and MPP Sarah Jama
Hosts let it all out on the Ontario NDP, Doug Ford's censuring of MPP Sarah Jama, and the attempts to silence Palestinian advocacy.
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Inside the NDP: Corporate Lobbyists Running the Workers Party?
Martin Lukacs, of the Breach and the Guardian, gives the inside scoop on his recent article Lobbyists run today’s NDP—and they’re warping the party’s…
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Inside the NDP: Sidelining Socialism
Host Jessa McLean lays out an argument that the NDP and their failure to keep Left has shifted the Overton window in Canadian politics.
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Inside the NDP: Controlled Convention
Hosts Jessa McLean, Jay Woodruff and Santiago Helou Quintero talk about the orchestrated and controlled ways in which the NDP gather (some of) their…
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Inside the NDP: Why They Came for Me
Jessa McLean shares her journey through partisan politics, why the NDP is trying to silence her, and how this is part of a larger pattern to push out…
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Democracy Denied: The BCNDP and their Fear of an Eco-Socialist Grassroots
The recent leadership race for the next Premier of British Columbia has the democratic process of the NDP under scrutiny again.
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Inside the NDP: A Deliberate Turn to Centre
Author and political scientist Matt Fodor discusses the themes from his upcoming book "From Layton to Singh: The 20-year Struggle for the NDPs Soul"
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Wasted Energy: Partisan Politics
Dimitri Lascaris and Host Jessa McLean discuss fighting for change from within, the gatekeeping involved, and just what they think of electoral politics…
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Inside the NDP: The People's Party?
Discussions with current and former NDP Party Executives proves quite revealing, demonstrating that like most politics in Canada, very few people are…
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