Deena Newaz

Review | April 4, 2025

Omar El Akkad’s indictment of Western liberal hypocrisy and complicity in genocide

Omar El Akkad’s latest book, One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, articulates the emptiness, anguish, and contradictions many of us have experienced while witnessing our governments’ complicity and even justification for the genocide in Gaza. The liberal establishment’s silence and inaction is appalling, but as El Akkad argues, it is not out of character.

News | March 7, 2025

CUPE 79 practice picket in Toronto demands fair deal for city workers

On March 6, a frigid day in Toronto, CUPE 79 workers gathered outside the Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre, alongside community supporters, to make their demands…

Feature | January 15, 2025

Global crisis, global rage: Politics in the age of Trump

The narrative that the world is shifting irreversibly to the right obscures the fact that how anger is channeled depends on the political ideas and movements available to workers.

Feature | December 9, 2024

On the Canada Post picket line: Workers fight for decent jobs and public services

Visiting the picket line solidifies that this fight is bigger than fair wages—it is about defending public sector jobs, good pensions, and rejecting the aggressive push towards precarious and casual work.

Review | November 25, 2024

The political relevance of Lenin’s “Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder”

Vladimir Lenin’s “Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder” was written in 1920 amidst the Russian Civil War and with the Bolsheviks in power. Lenin wrote the…

Analysis | September 25, 2023

International students face precarious housing, institutions and landlords profit

As a former international student in the UK, the start of the academic year is a reminder of the outrageous ‘overseas student’ fees I had…