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  • Wildfire smoke in Spain. Photo by Jaume Moya/Wikimedia Commons.

    Europe’s summer is a preview of what’s coming

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on August 10, 2026 by Christopher Logstrup (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Aug 12, 2026)

    Every year, we are told the latest summer of climate disaster will finally be a wake-up call.

  • Tobias Lütke in 2015. Photo by Union Eleven/Wikimedia Commons.

    Canada’s ultra-rich are no friends of democracy

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on August 5, 2026 by Dennis Pilon (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2026)

    Tobi Lütke’s remarks reflect a long tradition of elite hostility to democratic equality.

  • Poor air quality in Ontario’s Niagara Region as a result of wildfire smoke. Photo by Gogerr/Wikimedia Commons.

    Defying despair in the face of climate catastrophe

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 29, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    We must push back against ideological containment that blocks the development of rebellious thinking and movements of resistance.

  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford meets with firefighters and emergency personnel in Thunder Bay during the province’s ongoing wildfire crisis. Photo courtesy Doug Ford/X.

    The Ontario wildfires and Doug Ford’s record on climate change

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 22, 2026 by Mark Winfield (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jul 29, 2026)

    A capstone on a portrait of policy failure.

  • The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Photo by Robert Linsdell/Wikimedia Commons.

    Palestinian history is not up for debate

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 2, 2026 by Tanya Cheal (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The backlash against a landmark national museum exhibition on the Nakba exposes an enduring effort to silence Palestinian voices.

  • Guevara se tornou ícone da revolução cubana e deixou legado na área da saúde e da educação | Crédito: YAMIL LAGE / AFP

    Carney won’t support Cuba against U.S. aggression, so we must

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 9, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Government silence won’t help Cuba. Grassroots solidarity can.

  • Photo by Joe Mazzola/Flickr

    Walking the tightrope under siege: Cuba’s reforms and the defence of socialist sovereignty

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on June 23, 2026 by Isaac Saney (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jul 03, 2026)

    Cuba’s future need not be reduced to a choice between bureaucratic centralization and private capital accumulation.

  • Zohran Mamdani

    What Canadian cities can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s housing plan

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on June 5, 2026 by Laurence Braun-Woodbury (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2026)

    The strategy combines public investment, tenant protections, and non-market housing at a scale rarely seen in North America.

  • Photo courtesy Mark Carney/X

    Mark Carney exposes the usually hidden fangs of capitalism

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on May 20, 2026 by Harry Glasbeek (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jun 01, 2026)

    This government’s embrace of deregulation and extraction shows how deeply profit-driven assumptions shape public life.

  • Tenants are showing a greater inclination to band together, organize, and take direct, collective action in confronting their landlords. Photo courtesy the Toronto Tenant Union/X.

    Inside Toronto’s growing tenant revolt

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on May 25, 2026 by Ken Theobald (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted May 29, 2026)

    Tenant movements are emerging as one of the most significant movements of our era.

  • Desiccated agricultural fields in Iraq. Photo from Unsplash.

    A new reign of climate chaos

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on May 15, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Capitalism is pushing humanity beyond the ecological limits that made civilization possible.

  • A flag displaying the logo of Samidoun is seen at a Palestine solidarity demonstration in São Paulo, Brazil, February 15, 2025. Photo courtesy Samidoun Network/X.

    As Israel eyes executions, Canada targets Palestine solidarity

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on April 8, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Ottawa’s actions at home contradict its criticism of Israel’s death penalty law.

  • Members of Regularización YA celebrate the announcement of Spain’s regularization program, which could grant legal residence and work permits to around 500,000 migrants. Photo courtesy Regularización YA.

    Spain’s migrant regularization marks a rare progressive turn in Europe

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on March 24, 2026 by Kimberly Wilson (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2026)

    As the continent hardens its borders, Madrid bets on inclusion over exclusion.

  • Smoke billows over Tehran behind the Azadi Tower amid Israeli and US bombardment. Photo by Davoid Ghahrdar.

    Carney’s Iran hypocrisy

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on March 8, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Ottawa’s response to the Iran war exposes the gap between Canada’s rhetoric on international law and its alignment with U.S. power.

  • An industry camp for workers on a pipeline near Rainbow Lake, Alberta. Photo by Jason Woodhead/Flickr.

    Poking the eco-socialist bear

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on February 19, 2026 by Laurie Adkin (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Feb 20, 2026)

    A reply to misrepresentations of the green left agenda.

  • Havana, Cuba in 2023. Photo by Bruno Rijsman/Flickr.

    Canadians must support Cuba against Trump’s barbaric siege

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on February 10, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    With the U.S. tightening its grip, Canadians must step up where their government won’t.

  • Cubans rally in Havana to stand in solidarity with Venezuela, January 3, 2026. Photo courtesy Presidencia Cuba/X.

    Trump pushes Cuba toward catastrophe

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on February 7, 2026 by Cam Scott, Samantha Hislop and Rob Crooks (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Feb 10, 2026)

    Members of the Canadian Network on Cuba discuss the escalating U.S. oil blockade and the dire risks facing the island.

  • Photo: Gatis Rozenfelds/Flickr

    It’s time for something bolder than Carney’s path of appeasement

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on February 5, 2026 by Nick Gottlieb (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Feb 09, 2026)

    Canada can lead the way in international action to end the Trump regime by imposing real restrictions on the U.S.

  • McGill University pro-Palestinian encampment. Photo by WikiFouf/Wikimedia Commons.

    A warning about civil liberties on Canadian university campuses

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 13, 2026 by Shiri Pasternak, Charles Z. Levkoe and Jillian Rogin (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2026)

    Increasing repression against pro-Palestine students is happening now—we must stop it

  • RSF troops before the war with the Sudanese Armed Forces erupted in 2023. Photo courtesy RSFSudan/Telegram.

    Canada pursues Gulf markets as its weapons fuel war in Sudan

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on November 25, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The UAE’s backing of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces casts a long shadow over Canada’s push for new markets in the Middle East.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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