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The Abyss…And the Leap: Expanding Canada’S ‘Shrivelled’ Political Horizons The Abyss…and the Leap: Expanding Canada’s ‘Shrivelled’ Political Horizons Lee-Anne Broadhead (Sydney, Nova Scotia) e live in an age of multiple his preferred moniker of democratic Wand overlapping crises – socialist, the success of his candidacy in environmental deterioration, social so very nearly securing the Democratic exclusion, economic inequality, and nomination by drawing on the street political alienation – each sufficient to heat protests born of widespread provoke widespread resistance but now disenchantment with the dysfunctional combining to reveal the devastating and morally bankrupt economic system consequences of unbridled capitalism. revealed by the 2008 crash gave many a How those on the democratic socialist giddy sense of possibility. Similarly, the left – not the so-called ‘centre left’ of stunning success of the UK Momentum neoliberal-lite mainstream parties – movement in restoring the Labour Party respond to widespread disenchantment (under the improbable leadership of with the post-Crash ‘status quo’ is a Jeremy Corbyn) to its socialist senses, subject of intense debate, both creative suggests a new dynamic between street and divisive, in Canada as elsewhere in protest and electoral struggle. But the world. grave disappointments must also be acknowledged, primary among them re we at a moment of productive Syriza’s tragic failure to withstand intense Alinkage between popular resistance neoliberal pressures in Greece. and political reformation? Can we, this time, build a socialist reality from the n Canada the question of ‘what’s left?’ grassroots and prevent the absorption of Ihas been most acutely posed, if not radical critique by establishment elites? fully answered, in the time-honoured Although Bernie Sanders deserves the form of a manifesto – the Leap Manifesto label of a social democrat rather than (2015) – which centers its call for change Page 17 Hard Times 103 (1/2019) The Abyss…and the Leap: Expanding Canada’s ‘Shrivelled’ Political Horizons on the need to confront the urgent crisis – “a crime against humanity’s environmental crisis facing us all by future” – can serve as the spark igniting linking it to working class politics, the such a transformation, as there is no menace of militarism and, importantly, other way to deal with the crisis than Indigenous rights in this Settler State. by redefining basic socio-economic and Remarkably enough this clarion call to state structures. In turn, the Manifesto’s confront the costs and consequences of repeated defence of the inherent rights the capitalist ethos governing (or, more and title of the Indigenous peoples of accurately, mismanaging) all aspects Canada shines an unavoidably harsh light of our lives nowhere features the word on both the resource-extracting capitalist ‘socialism’, though its core project – a project that Canada is, and the need to “transformation” to a new economy – ‘indigenize’ and decolonize Canadian clearly places the needs of society (and left-wing ‘alternatives’ traditionally the environment) above the appetites of rooted in extractive industrialism. capital. © The Leap Manifesto (reproduced with permission) rafted by representatives of a n place of an economy based on oil Ddiverse group of movements – Iand gas megaprojects the Manifesto labour, environmental, Indigenous advocates a ‘leap’ to 100 per cent rights and social justice – convened by renewable electricity sources within best-selling author/activist Naomi Klein 20 years. In place of “profit-gouging” and documentary film maker Avi Lewis, private companies, or even state-run the Leap Manifesto is grounded in a ones, it advocates “energy democracy”: belief that, for all its horror, the climate innovative ownership structures Page 18 Hard Times 103 (1/2019) Lee-Anne Broadhead designed along egalitarian, redistributive withdrawing support from leader Tom lines. Declaring that “public scarcity in Mulcair, a former Liberal Cabinet times of unprecedented private wealth member in Quebec and ‘mastermind’ is a manufactured crisis, designed to of the disastrously centrist campaign. extinguish our dreams before they have The more profound issue for discussion, a chance to be born”, it demands an though, was the direction the chastened end to: austerity; trade deals negotiated party would now take. Would it move in the interests of corporations; fossil back to the traditional centre left or fuel subsidies; and excessive military into more radical, uncharted territory? spending. The Manifesto also backs a Though not an official party faction, the guaranteed annual income, proposes ‘Leapers’ came to the 2016 convention the imposition of financial transaction in the hope of having the party adopt taxes, and advocates a massive “universal the Manifesto. Failing in that effort, a program” to build energy-efficient homes resolution passed which recognized and and retrofit old ones. These proposals supported it as “a high-level statement of are, crucially, coupled with the provision principles that speaks to the aspirations, of “training and other resources for history, and values of the party” and workers in carbon-intensive jobs, committed riding associations across ensuring they are fully able to take part the country to debating it. Although in the clean energy economy,” the details not adopted as policy ‘Leap’ had arrived of which should be worked out with the as a major source of both inspiration participation of the workers themselves. and dissension, fundamentally altering internal party dynamics and the he Leap Manifesto was launched at parameters of policy debate. Ta public event in September 2015 against the backdrop of a federal election ince that breakthrough the Leap in which the putatively left-wing New Sagenda has been fervently defended Democratic Party (NDP) shimmied so and as rigorously contested nationwide far to the right in the hopes of winning in NDP riding associations as well power that it was outflanked on the left as unions, activist groups, student- by the mainstream Liberal Party of Justin led organizations and faith-based Trudeau, happy to embrace budget organizations. The Canadian Labour deficits to increase public spending. The Congress (CLC) established Labour following year, the NDP – relegated for Leap, linkages were made with the from official opposition status to Sanders and Momentum campaigns, distant third behind the Liberals and and early in 2018 Manifesto supporters Conservatives – met in a sombre mood, organized Courage to Leap, an unofficial Page 19 Hard Times 103 (1/2019) The Abyss…and the Leap: Expanding Canada’s ‘Shrivelled’ Political Horizons gathering held alongside the annual editorial in the weekly newsmagazine NDP Convention but where, as was Macleans defined the Manifesto as “the noted in media reports, barely 100 of answer to a question no one is asking,” the 500 activists in attendance were and asserted that in “a country born out actually delegates to the Convention. of compromise and accommodation, Clearly there is no consensus about extreme views of any sort are (thankfully) the wisdom of merging the movement seen as un-Canadian.” This complacently with the party, a party that now has a nationalist stance was also adopted by young, charismatic leader, Jagmeet NDP strategist-turned-pundit Robin Singh, who has thus far been careful to Sears (2016), who warned of a “suicidal neither reject nor accept the basic tenets leap to the left” by “loony leapers” of the Manifesto. Hard choices for both emulating “earlier Trotskyite and Marxist leadership and membership are at hand. entryists”. Sears was, though, hopeful this laughable “Birkenstock Left” would nsurprisingly, the Manifesto has soon be unceremoniously “returned to Ubeen pummelled from opposite their more traditional perch outside the directions. According to prominent mainstream party.” mainstream journalist Lawrence Martin (2016), it “advocates that all oil be left or those at the International in the ground and we bounce along FCommunist League (2016) the happily on moonbeams and other Manifesto is, in its refusal to “look to the rays”; another veteran columnist, Jeffrey proletariat as the motor force for human Simpson (2016), declared the “anti- progress” a “reactionary” document American” Leapers have “absolutely no resorting to “bourgeois economic idea of how to run a modern economy”, policy”. Deriding the Manifesto’s focus are “hostile to free markets except of on the global climate crisis, the ICL the organic-market variety on Saturday insists “modern infrastructure, including mornings”, and are “committed to pipelines as well as hydroelectric saving the environment at the expense of projects and the like, is essential to crucifying the economy.” For disgraced the function of an advanced industrial right-wing media mogul Conrad Black economy,” in other words an extractive (2015) the Leapers are merely the latest capitalism generating sufficient class last gasp of “the shattered Old Left” and contradictions to “win the working class constitute “the detritus of organized to the perspective of a socialist revolution labor,” accompanied this time by “heavily which will rip the mines, factories and buffeted eco-zealots” and “imperishable other means of production from the agitators for the native people”. An grip of the exploiters, paving the way Page 20 Hard Times 103 (1/2019) Lee-Anne Broadhead for a rationally planned, collectivized Leap Manifesto, arguing instead that economy.” Massive resource extraction the vague document fails to tackle the will not, apparently,
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