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A magazine of socialist strategy, analysis, and culture. By the midnight sun we make our plans for daybreak. midnightsunmag.ca

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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It’s in the nature of a sun to rise and set. After five years, Midnight Sun Magazine is winding down. www.midnightsunmag.ca/farewell-fro...
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Farewell from Midnight Sun
It’s in the nature of a sun to rise and set. After five years, Midnight Sun Magazine is winding down.
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Théo @amloiandy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Capitalism has never exploited a generic labour force in the abstract. It has always organized labour through difference. Colonialism, slavery, immigration regimes, citizenship hierarchies and racial segmentation are not side stories to its development; they are among its principal mechanisms."
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
NEW: Richard Roys on breaking down persistent false oppositions between anti-racism and class politics in Quebec, France, and beyond. www.midnightsunmag.ca/class-domina...
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Class Domination is Organized and Reproduced Through Racism
Richard Roys on breaking down persistent false oppositions between anti-racism and class politics in Quebec, France, and beyond.
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Daniel Sarah Karasik @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
“Destabilized and in crisis, the federal NDP may today be more open to a socialist and democratic reorientation than it has been at any point in the last few decades, even if conservative forces within the party will certainly put up a fight.”
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Marcel N. @marcel-nelson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
My latest on the Avi Lewis campaign.
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NEW: Marcel Nelson and Nathan Rao on the possibilities and potential pitfalls of Avi Lewis’s campaign for the NDP leadership. www.midnightsunmag.ca/out-of-the-i...
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Out of the Impasse? The Avi Lewis Campaign and Left Strategy
Marcel Nelson and Nathan Rao on the possibilities and potential pitfalls of Avi Lewis’s campaign for the NDP leadership.
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
NEW: Mostafa Henaway (@mhenaway.bsky.social) on the emergence of the Carney doctrine in Canadian politics: elbows up and austerity for the many. www.midnightsunmag.ca/crisis-as-cl...
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Crisis as Class Strategy
Mostafa Henaway on the emergence of the Carney doctrine in Canadian politics: elbows up and austerity for the many.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
John Clarke is a longtime organizer with Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. John's written for a variety of venues including us and @midnightsunmag.bsky.social www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...
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From Trade War to Class War
John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hey y'all! This week we have John Clarke writing on the strategic lessons to draw from the recent Air Canada strike. spectrejournal.com/lessons-from...
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Lessons from the Air Canada Strike – Spectre Journal
John Clarke argues for a rank-and-file movement to break combat back-to-work legislation.
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
NEW: David Camfield on the important wins and equally significant missed opportunities of the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike. www.midnightsunmag.ca/the-air-cana...
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The Air Canada Flight Attendants' Strike and the Need for Greater Union Democracy
David Camfield on the important wins and equally significant missed opportunities of the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike.
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
NEW: Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran. www.midnightsunmag.ca/useful-enemi...
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Useful Enemies
Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran.
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
NEW: Midnight Sun speaks to Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders. www.midnightsunmag.ca/internationa...
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Internationalizing the Coalition
A conversation with Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders.
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Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
It's been a minute (1.5 years) since I've had a poem out in a mag, and what a mag to be back with: @midnightsunmag.bsky.social has published "Villiform," a deconstructed villanelle whose central conceit is about disability as a kind of poetic constraint for living. www.midnightsunmag.ca/villiform/
Villiform
Or: Refiguring Our Disabilities as Poetic Constraints

Jade Wallace

We are confined, the well and the
unwell, by the cadenced demands
our bodies make. Countable as

the beats of a villanelle are
the hours that pass until need will
compel us to pause and cast for

water to slake the thirst that con
stricts us, both well and unwell. While
we may delay, we cannot disHeader says "Midnight Sun" and beneath is an image of a sanderling (small sea bird) running across a beach.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Todd Gordon is an editor of @midnightsunmag.bsky.social , where you can read his February critique of the nationalist turn in Canadian politics. www.midnightsunmag.ca/tag/todd-gor...
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Todd Gordon – Midnight Sun
A magazine of socialist strategy, analysis, and culture.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hey y'all! This Tuesday we've got @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social writing on Trumpism as a specific variety of authoritarianism and it's connection to a liberalism in crisis. spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal
Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
NEW: In their poem “Villiform,” Jade Wallace (@nycterosea.bsky.social) playfully refigures disability as poetic constraint. www.midnightsunmag.ca/villiform/
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Villiform
In a new poem, Jade Wallace playfully refigures disability as poetic constraint.
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Alberta Advantage Podcast @albertaadvantage.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW EP: Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/06/09/p...
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Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser
Join our live show Friday June 13 6PM – Royal Canadian Legion #1, 116 7 Ave SE, Calgary – Free Entry – Register here! Public sector pensions are one of the hard-won victories of t…
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
NEW: David Camfield on current conditions – and hope – for communists. An excerpt from Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (@fernpub.bsky.social). www.midnightsunmag.ca/what-can-we-...
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What Can We Hope For?
David Camfield on current conditions – and hope – for communists. An excerpt from Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (Fernwood Publishing).
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Dave Gray-Donald @dgrdon.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
An excerpt of Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al. is up at @midnightsunmag.bsky.social. Author Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher begins unpacking the gaps in historical knowledge, adding details to our understanding of the Marx family that have long been ignored. www.midnightsunmag.ca/a-family-of-...
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A Family of Thinkers
Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher on the women in Marx’s life and the rediscovery of feminist histories. An excerpt from Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al.: This is Not a Book About Marx.
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
NEW: Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher on the women in Marx’s life and the rediscovery of feminist histories. 

An excerpt from Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al.: This is Not a Book About Marx, (@btlbooks.com). www.midnightsunmag.ca/a-family-of-...
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A Family of Thinkers
Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher on the women in Marx’s life and the rediscovery of feminist histories. An excerpt from Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al.: This is Not a Book About Marx.
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Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
You want decent reporting? @midnightsunmag.bsky.social @readthemaple.bsky.social @breachmedia.ca @briarpatchmag.bsky.social and more. Want a world where journalists are responsible truth-tellers and able to fund their own research via FOIP requests? Subscribe & if you can, donate!
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social: @johncke.bsky.social on transforming the trade war into class war.
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW: John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US. www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...
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From Trade War to Class War
John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In the face of #Trump's #tradewar, 'our' capitalists and their political representatives will try to make the working-class carry the burden. Instead of joining 'Team Canada,' we will need to fight back. My article for @midnightsunmag.bsky.social. www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...
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From Trade War to Class War
John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
NEW: Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action. www.midnightsunmag.ca/ritual-and-r...
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Ritual and Repetition
Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Jenie Gao @jeniegao.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"Everything around us is striving to break us, one corrosive myth at a time. What if we were to keep going with our organizing, even when we don’t always have faith in ourselves?" @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social 💙📚 #authorsky #disabilityjustice #freepalestine
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Daniel Sarah Karasik @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
today in Midnight Sun Magazine, really excited to publish Jane Shi's beautiful piece on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action – thinking by turns with Octavia E. Butler, Jody Chan, Wendy Trevino, Isabella Hammad, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, Salar Mohandesi, and others
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
NEW: Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action. www.midnightsunmag.ca/ritual-and-r...
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Ritual and Repetition
Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Harbinger Media Network @harbingermedia.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
On 📚VICTOR'S CHILDREN📚 ep50: As the threat of sweeping US tariffs touches off a political crisis in the Canadian state Todd Gordon and Mostafa Henaway discuss how the left is responding and an alternative approach. soundcloud.com/user-7372679... harbingermedianetwork.com 🔶
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Arash Ghiassi @arashghiassi.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Do we really suppose that Canadian workers have more in common with Canadian plutocrats such as Galen Weston than with an American or Mexican worker? Whatever the outcome of this moment’s trade dispute, wealth in North America will still be controlled by capital,"
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here’s my response to the resurgence of Canadian nationalism — left & otherwise — in the context of the tariff war: a political dead end, we need instead a much more far reaching, & internationalist, response animated by struggles from below. www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...
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We Need Workers’ Solidarity, Not “National Unity,” in Response to Trump’s Tariffs
Todd Gordon on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and on the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders.
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Sharon Reiner @sreiner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Wouldn't it be swell if we used this opportunity to "develop and fight for an alternative political and economic vision"? Nationalism is a dead end.
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
NEW in Midnight Sun: @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders. www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...
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We Need Workers’ Solidarity, Not “National Unity,” in Response to Trump’s Tariffs
Todd Gordon on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and on the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders.
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Check out our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social by @alansearslefty.bsky.social
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
NEW: Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects. www.midnightsunmag.ca/eros-and-rev...
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Eros and Revolution
Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects.
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Radclyffe Awl @bootsbloodpoetry.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
“We have to not just be there in the fight together; we have to give each other the resources and the strength, we have to rely on each other in ways that are much deeper than just organizing together or showing up for events or actions with each other. In order to do that, we have to have trust.”
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 17/12/2024
The Liberal government has forced postal workers back to work. @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social writes that this isn’t just a suppression of labour rights—it’s a missed opportunity to implement the visionary, green proposals of postal workers to reinvent the public service for the 21st century.
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Government is suppressing postal workers. It should be learning from their innovative ideas ⋆ The Breach
If the government listened to postal workers, they could be implementing win-win measures that create secure meaningful jobs as well as address the crises of affordability, isolation, and climate brea...
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
NEW: Malika Sharma on grief and solidarity. "If I loved this almost-baby with this intensity, what could I imagine...of the families trading children with their relatives, so that if and when the bombs come, at least some of their bloodline might persist?" www.midnightsunmag.ca/bloodlines/
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Bloodlines
Malika Sharma on grief and solidarity.
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Daniel Sarah Karasik @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
loved having this rich conversation with Fathima Cader & May E!
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
NEW: Fathima Cader and May E on nurturing solidarities between Indigenous, Palestinian, and Tamil struggles – and the trust- and relationship-building at the heart of such efforts.
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The Intimacies of Solidarity
Fathima Cader and May E on nurturing solidarities between Indigenous, Palestinian, and Tamil struggles – and the trust- and relationship-building at the heart of such efforts.
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Harbinger Media Network @harbingermedia.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾 @adamkingxv.bsky.social reflects on 2024 as a year of labour unrest, asks how the post-war labour “peace” is holding up & if the union movement should be planning beyond the Rand formula: albertaadvantagepod.com/2024/11/28/c... harbingermedianetwork.com 🔶
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Canada’s Hot Union Summer: what comes next?
This past year saw a sequence of labour unrest: Teamsters locked out of both CPKC and CN railways, Westjet mechanics striking over Canada Day long weekend, Air Canada pilots reaching a last-minute …
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