A new movement born of an Instagram account has one central complaint: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – the French impressionist – was a terrible artist, and his paintings should be removed from museums. Read the rest of this post on the original site at ‘Renoir sucks at painting’ movement demands removal of …
In the early evening of Sept. 17, before dark, a 17-year-old girl strolled from the Al-Noor Mosque in St. Catharines, Ont., to the plaza across the street. She was planning to buy a drink and snack. Then three other girls, teenagers the girl from the mosque didn’t recognize, walked up …
i have been giving some thought to a kind of rhetorical pose that has always annoyed me, of juxtaposing the damage done by systems of oppression (racism, national oppression, patriarchy, homophobia, etc.) and the far right. This has been obvious to some extent recently in the internet commentary surrounding a …
(QuĂ©bec) RaphaĂ«l LĂ©vesque, alias Raf Stomper, chanteur du groupe d’extrĂŞme droite de QuĂ©bec LĂ©gitime Violence, a comparu vendredi au palais de justice de QuĂ©bec après avoir Ă©tĂ© arrĂŞtĂ© jeudi Ă Saint-Apollinaire dans une affaire de trafic de mĂ©thamphĂ©tamine et de cannabis. Read the rest of this post on the original …
1. Pourquoi cette campagne ? Suite Ă l’explosion de l’usage des appareils photo (smartphones, tablettes, drĂ´nes,… Read the rest of this post on the original site at A propos des photos dans les manifestations
It’s hard to talk seriously about something with a silly name, and neoreaction is no exception. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Darkness Before the Right
-MontrĂ©al, 1 octobre 2015 – Le 24 mars 2015, un professeur du dĂ©partement de sociologie a dĂ©posĂ© une plainte officielle au Bureau d’intervention et de prĂ©vention en matière de harcèlement de l’UQAM contre une Ă©tudiante qu’il suspecte d’avoir participĂ© au Sticker gate. Read the rest of this post on the original …
Stanley B. Ryerson’s The Founding of Canada: Beginnings to 1815 is a book that, despite its flaws, I wish I had read 15 years ago when I first became an activist in Canada. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Book Review: Stanley B. Ryerson – The …
Whether or not China is now a capitalist-imperialist country is an issue on which there is some considerable disagreement, even within the revolutionary left. This book brings together theoretical, definitional and logical considerations, as well as the extensive empirical evidence which is now available, to demonstrate that China has indeed …
It has been eight years since i started this blog, basically as a way of trying to figure out how to develop and explore some political ideas and perhaps also deal with a period of political and personal isolation i was going through. It “worked”, and provided a space not …