UNLOCK 26.1 Springtime for Democratic Socialism in Canada

UNLOCK 26.1 Springtime for Democratic Socialism in Canada

On March 29, 2026, Avi Lewis won the federal NDP leadership on the first ballot in Winnipeg, taking 56% of the vote in a field of five candidates. This episode contextualizes this huge win for international listeners — because what just happened in Canada matters to anyone who follows democratic socialist politics anywhere.

I trace the Lewis family's roots from the Jewish Labor Bund through to the founding of the CCF and the Regina Manifesto. I cover the right-wing media meltdown, the redbaiting from Alberta's PostMedia papers, and the dissociative pundit-class response I'm calling "moneyball fugue state."

And I dig into the oldest conflict in leftist politics — Rosa Luxemburg's question about whether a socialist can enter the bourgeois state without becoming its servant — and why I think we need both revolutionary and reform comrades right now.

Sources

Avi Lewis elected NDP leader on first ballot with 56% of the vote — NDP official announcement

Full leadership results and candidate breakdown — CBC live coverage

Avi Lewis takes over a diminished NDP — can he make it a force again? — The Walrus

NDP elects Avi Lewis as new federal leader — Globe and Mail

What does Avi Lewis's arrival mean for the party? — CBC News

Matthew Polacko, "The Rightward Shift and Electoral Decline of Social Democratic Parties under Increasing Inequality," West European Politics 45, no. 4 (2022): 665–692

LSE summary of the Polacko paper — LSE European Politics blog

The Regina Manifesto (1933) — The Canadian Encyclopedia

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35. Antifascist Tooth Fairy w/ E.V. Debs

35. Antifascist Tooth Fairy w/ E.V. Debs

Joining me today is E.V. Debs (not their real name!) an antifascist community organizer from Seattle to talk about their new tabletop game, Antifascist Tooth Fairy, now getting funded on Kickstarter f...

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UNLOCK 33.1 Antifascist Body Culture: A Brief History

UNLOCK 33.1 Antifascist Body Culture: A Brief History

I wanted to trace the century-old roots of Maren Forsberg's antifascist self-defense work, so I dug into three overlapping histories. First: the German Bund's use of Körperbildung — body education thr...

7 Kesä 22min

34. From the Street to City Hall w/ Diana Chan McNally

34. From the Street to City Hall w/ Diana Chan McNally

Diana Chan McNally has been unhoused, a teen mother, a museum curator, a college instructor, a harm reduction worker, a frontline homelessness advocate, and a DJ. Now she's running for Toronto City Co...

3 Kesä 53min

UNLOCK 32.1 What Tommy Douglas Knew & What We All Know about Socialized Medicine

UNLOCK 32.1 What Tommy Douglas Knew & What We All Know about Socialized Medicine

In a coda to episode 32, I reflect on what socialized medicine means not as culture or sentiment but as raw material security and the basis for working-class solidarity. I draw on Beatrice Adler-Bolto...

31 Touko 22min

33. Antifascist Self Defence and Rewriting the Body's Response to Violence w/ Maren Forsberg

33. Antifascist Self Defence and Rewriting the Body's Response to Violence w/ Maren Forsberg

Norwegian kickboxer Maren Forsberg works as a self-defense trainer focused on building antifascist courage and resilience for women, queer, and trans people. I spoke with her about her path from child...

27 Touko 59min

UNLOCKED 31.1 Kensington Market Palimpsest

UNLOCKED 31.1 Kensington Market Palimpsest

In this coda to my conversation with Serena Purdy, I track the layered history of Kensington Market through the metaphor of the palimpsest, the medieval manuscript practice of writing over earlier tex...

24 Touko 28min

32. Smith and Carney May Destroy Socialized Medicine w/ Nikolas Barry-Shaw

32. Smith and Carney May Destroy Socialized Medicine w/ Nikolas Barry-Shaw

I sit down with Nikolas Barry-Shaw, researcher and trade and privatization campaigner for the Council of Canadians, to break down how Alberta's Bill 11 is dismantling Canada's public healthcare system...

20 Touko 1h 13min

UNLOCK 30.1 The Left Didn't Betray Anyone: Material Conditions and the Limits of Rockhill

UNLOCK 30.1 The Left Didn't Betray Anyone: Material Conditions and the Limits of Rockhill

A coda to my conversation with Richard Gilman-Opalsky around Gabriel Rockhill's new book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism. It's a reflection on what Rockhill's viral success tells us about how ...

17 Touko 33min

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