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Good afternoon, comrades and friends. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been waiting 58 years for this conference! Allow me to explain. When I joined the NDP in 1968, the party was 7 years old. It [...]

By Barry Weisleder Nearly four hundred people, with over one hundred attending in-person in Toronto, and many more on-line across the country, gave birth to a new Socialist Movement (SM) at a [...]

By Barry Weisleder A split on the upper deck of the New Democratic Party bureaucracy led to a win for film-maker Avi Lewis over MP Heather McPherson. Lewis captured the leadership on the first [...]

1. Let the Members Decide! Whereas prospective candidates for NDP leadership have been subjected to an arbitrary vetting process headed by a non-elected and unaccountable vetting committee, based [...]

By Barry Weisleder The following is my presentation to the Socialist Caucus Conference held on December 21, 2025. It concludes with a Motion that was adopted by a large majority of the Conference [...]

By Yves Engler At a powerful press conference on Wednesday, we called on the NDP’s Federal Council to overturn the three-person vetting committee’s undemocratic exclusion of our campaign. I also [...]

By Barry Weisleder MPP Marit Stiles is hanging on as leader of the New Democratic Party in Ontario after a not very convincing vote of confidence on September 20. At the party convention in [...]

By Yves Engler During two months of campaigning to lead the NDP we’ve questioned the foundation of our economic system more than all branches of the party over the past few years. But our [...]

The Fall 2025 edition of Turn Left Magazine, the official voice of the NDP Socialist Caucus, is now online. We are making 1,500 copies to distribute to delegates at the Ontario NDP Convention and [...]

The NDP Socialist Caucus is presenting Yves Engler as its candidate for federal NDP leadership. The campaign is in full swing, with over 700 volunteers across the country. Yves is the most firmly [...]