Contributors
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Dan La Botz
Dan La Botz is a co-editor of New Politics. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is working on a second novel, this one about socialists and union reformers in the Teamsters. View all posts »
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Labor for Our Revolution
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Labor for Palestine
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Labor Network for Sustainability
Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS), founded in 2009, has a vision of a future for the planet grounded in full-spectrum sustainability (environmental, social, and economic). View all posts »
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Labour Against the Arms Trade
Labour Against the Arms Trade is a coalition of peace and labour activists working to end Canada's participation in the international arms trade. Follow them at LAATCanada. View all posts »
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Labour Committee SP
Labour Committee of the Socialist Project. View all posts »
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Labour for Palestine
Labour4Palestine is a pan-Canadian network of labour activists who work to deepen solidarity with Palestinian workers and people in their struggle for liberation. View all posts »
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Oskar Lafontaine
Oskar Lafontaine was the co-chairman of Die Linke (2007-2010). View all posts »
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François Laforge
François Laforge is an organizer with ULANJ and writes for Socialist Worker. View all posts »
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Xavier Lafrance
Xavier Lafrance was a spokesperson for ASSÉ in the 2005 strike, and is currently active with the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly and a PhD student at York University in Toronto. View all posts »
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Aaron Lakoff
Aaron Lakoff is Communications and Media Lead at Independent Jewish Voices Canada. View all posts »
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Edgardo Lander
Edgardo Lander is a professor of Social Sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. View all posts »
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Spyros Lapatsioras
Spyros Lapatsioras is Assistant Professor of Political Economy, University of Crete, Member of the Central Committee of Syriza. View all posts »
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Costas Lapavitsas
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Ron Lare
Ron Lare is a member of UAW Local 600, retired, and he can be reached at ronlare_AT_sbcglobal.net. View all posts »
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Manuel Larrabure
Manuel Larrabure is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Santa Cruz. His research is on post-capitalism and social movements in 21st-century Latin America. His work has been published in a number of international journals, including Latin American Perspectives, Historical Materialism, and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. View all posts »
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Jaša Lategano
Jaša Lategano is an activist of Iskra in Slovenia. View all posts »
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Maria Theresa Lauron
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Harold Lavender
Harold Lavender is a long time Vancouver activist and writer. He is also an editor of the New Socialist webzine. View all posts »
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Gary Lawrence
Gary Lawrence is Vice-President of OPSEU Local 504 and a member of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly. View all posts »
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James Lawson
James Lawson teaches political economy at the University of Victoria. View all posts »
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Gordon Laxer
Founding Director of Parkland Institute at University of Alberta, author of After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians. He blogs at gordonlaxer.com, and tweets at @AfterTheSands. View all posts »
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Michael Laxer
Socialist and political activist. Loves cooking! Blogger for rabble.ca and others. Check out his blog theleftchapter. View all posts »
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Paul Le Blanc
Paul Le Blanc is a long-time member of Pittsburghers for Public Transit. View all posts »
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David Leadbeater
David Leadbeater was an Associate Professor of Economics before being one of about 200 employees terminated by Laurentian University. View all posts »
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Tony Leah
Tony Leah is Chairperson of Unifor Local 222 Political Action Committee. Follow his Tweets at @tonyleah. View all posts »
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Michael A. Lebowitz
Michael A. Lebowitz (1937-2023) has taught Marxian Economics and Comparative Economic Systems at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia since 1965. He was directing the programme in Transformative Practice and Human Development at Centro Internacional Miranda (CIM). His latest book is Between Capitalism and Community (New York: Monthly Review Press 2021). His publications can be found at michaelalebowitz.com. View all posts »
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Priscillia Lefebvre
Priscillia Lefebvre is a rank-and-file CUPE member. She is also a contract instructor and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. View all posts »
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LeftEast
LeftEast is a place where various voices, efforts and groups from around the region, broadly understood, come together in a sustained analytical and political effort. Ideologically, it is explicitly left-wing in orientation, that is, left of the classical social democracy. lefteast.org. View all posts »
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Martin Legassick
Martin Legassick is active in housing issues in the Western Cape and a member of the Democratic Left Front, an anti-capitalist united front. View all posts »
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Patrick D. LeGay
Patrick D. LeGay is a PhD candidate at York University, a member of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, and a student at law articling in Toronto. View all posts »
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Nathan Legrand
Nathan Legrand is an internationalist activist and a member of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) in Belgium. View all posts »
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Oupa Lehulere
Oupa Lehulere is an activist in the social movements and is currently based at Khanya College, a social justice and movement building institution based in Johannesburg, South Africa. View all posts »
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Lisa Leinveer
Lisa Leinveer is an activist working with DAMN2025 in Toronto. View all posts »
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Monika Lemke
Monika Lemke (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at York University. Her dissertation focuses on police-led strip searches in Canada. Her research interests include socio-legal theory, policing, body and sensory studies, and the state and bureaucracy. She is a resident of the meeting place of Tkaronto. View all posts »
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Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. She teaches critical journalism at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life. View all posts »
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Emanuele Leonardi
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Aris Leonas
Aris Leonas is an activist in the Greek anti-austerity movements. View all posts »
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Ishmael Lesufi
Ishmael Lesufi is in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Africa. View all posts »
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Gabriel Levy
Gabriel Levy edits the blog People and Nature. View all posts »
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Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy is a coordinating editor of Canadian Dimension magazine – living in Montreal View all posts »
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Avi Lewis
Avi Lewis is a filmmaker, climate activist, educator, Associate Professor at University of British Columbia. He blogs at avilewis.ca and twitter.com/avilewis. Avi's recent op-ed in the Globe and Mail imploring Canada to support the South African brief on Israel’s commitment of genocide in Gaza can be found here. View all posts »
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Joel Lexchin
Joel Lexchin teaches health policy at York University and works in the emergency department at the University Health Network. View all posts »
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Colin Leys
Colin Leys is an honorary professor at Goldsmiths University of London and Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University, Kingston. He is the author of Market Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest and, with Stewart Player, The Plot Against the NHS (Merlin Press, 2011). View all posts »
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Lars T. Lih
Lars T. Lih received his Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University (1984) and is currently a lecturer at McGill University in Montreal. He has published extensively on the early Soviet period, including Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921 (1990) and Lenin Rediscovered (2006). View all posts »
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Peter Linebaugh
Peter Linebaugh is an internationally known historian, considered one of the most important Marxist historians of our time. He is a historian of class struggles in Britain and the colonial Atlantic. A former student of E. P. Thompson, Linebaugh has taught in New York University, Harvard University and the University of Toledo. View all posts »
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John Lister
John Lister, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Department of Media and Communication at the Coventry University, where he teaches health journalism. He is also the founder and director of the London Health Emergency, a pro-NHS public interest group. View all posts »
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Deborah Littman
Deborah Littman is an organizer for Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) local 113, campaigning to Keep Transit Public. View all posts »
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Sebastian Livingston
Sebastian Livingston is the Convener/Chair of the Ecosocialist Commission of the Socialist Party, USA. Follow his tweets at @SebastianSPUSA View all posts »
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D. W. Livingstone
D.W. Livingstone is past Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work at OISE/UT. His most recent related work is: Professional Power and Skill Use in the 'Knowledge Economy' A Class Analysis (2021). For other related works, see discover.research.utoronto.ca/27054-dw-livingstone. View all posts »
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Maité Llanos
Maité Llanos is an Advisor to the Secretary of International Relations at the Central de Trabajadores de Argentina (CTA). View all posts »
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Ameth Lô
Ameth Lô is a member of Group for Research and Initiative for the Liberation of Africa, Toronto, Canada. View all posts »
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Yuri Lobunov
Yuri Lobunov is editor-in-chief of the site socialistalternative.ru. View all posts »
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Larry Lohmann
Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. View all posts »
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Reynard Loki
Reynard Loki is a co-founder of the Observatory, where he is the environment and animal rights editor. He is also a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute. View all posts »
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Ben Lorber
Ben Lorber is a journalist and radical activist who has worked extensively in the U.S. and the Middle East. In 2011, he spent six months in Palestine, as an activist with the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank and as a journalist with the Israeli-Palestinian Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem. View all posts »
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Nora Loreto
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Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy, a philosopher and sociologist of Brazilian origin, is a member of the New Anti-capitalist Party in France and of the Fourth International. He is the author of many books, including The Marxism of Che Guevara, Marxism and Liberation Theology, Fatherland or Mother Earth? and The War of Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America. He is joint author (with Joel Kovel) of the International Ecosocialist Manifesto. View all posts »
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John Loxley
Dr. John Loxley is a professor in the Department of Economics, University of Manitoba. He specializes in International Money and Finance, International Development and Community Economic Development. View all posts »
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Stephanie Luce
Stephanie Luce is Professor of Labor Studies at the School of Labor and Urban Studies, and Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Fighting for a Living Wage, and Labor Movements: Global Perspectives. View all posts »
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Lukasz Lugowski
Lukasz Lugowski, activist of the Free Trade Union "August 80", is one of the initiators and coordinator of the campaign for free public transport in Poland. View all posts »
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011. He was a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT). View all posts »
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Victoria Lunetta
Victoria Lunetta is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto taking a major in political science and a double minor in women studies and music history. View all posts »
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Jan Lust
Jan Lust is a researcher and professor at the Postgraduate School of the University Ricardo Palma in Peru and forms part of the Board of Directors of the University’s Research Centre. He is the author of Capitalism, Class and Revolution in Peru, 1980-2016 and Underdevelopment in Peru. A profile of peripheral capitalism (forthcoming, August 2023). View all posts »
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Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist. She was a long-standing member of the German SPD and also a founding member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Her writings are archived at marxists.org/archive/luxemburg. View all posts »
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Meg Luxton
Meg Luxton is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program of Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York University. View all posts »
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Michael Lynk
Michael Lynk is the former United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, from 2016 to 2022. He taught in the Faculty of Law at Western University in Ontario from 1999 to 2022. He is, most recently, the co-author of Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations, with Richard Falk and John Dugard. View all posts »
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Vagia Lysikatou
Vagia Lysikatou is a member of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute. View all posts »