Veteran activist and author Judy Rebick has spent nearly half a century trying to transform the NDP into a left wing party tied to social movements.
Rebick sits down with managing editor Martin Lukacs to discuss that history, and why she’s now betting on Avi Lewis’s campaign for NDP leader.
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An energized reclaiming of Democratic Socialist values has resulted in the resounding Federal NDP Election of refreshing Avi Lewis’ restorative vision with Indigenous Tenille Johnstons nurturing ideals and Toby McQuails practical climate stabilizing necessities. The newly-elected level-headed NDP foundations of a caring sustainable governance criticized as ‘radical’ by the climate-breaking fossil- fuel and resource pillaging ‘Profit is God’ unrestrained ‘loophole-lobbyists’ of the corrupted NDP, Conservative and Liberal parties reveals how disassociated these humans are from ‘what makes life possible to exist’.