The New Democratic Party has formally barred longtime anti-war author and activist Yves Engler from appearing on the ballot in the 2025 federal leadership race. Speaking with Global Green News, Engler described the party’s vetting process as “sloppy, biased, and fundamentally undemocratic,” a decision he sees as a direct attack on both his politics and the broader culture of grassroots activism within the party.
The NDP’s Leadership Vote Committee accused Engler of a wide range of supposed violations, including problematic foreign-policy positions on Rwanda, Russia, and Syria, an entire section devoted to antisemitism, and even allegations of harassment and “lack of commitment” to the NDP. Yet Engler says the process behind these accusations was astonishingly thin. In the case of harassment, the committee provided no evidence whatsoever—no complainants, no examples, not even a description of the alleged incidents. For the foreign-policy and antisemitism accusations, the committee cited Engler’s own articles, all of which he and his legal team addressed extensively in a 4,500-word rebuttal.
I knew this was going to happen but I'm still fucking livid right now.
Acute_Engles [he/him, any] - 3day
In my class for my red seal i said I'm to the left of the NDP as a way to state my beliefs without killing the 70 year old broken man teaching us.
It took probably an entire 5 minutes of reassuring him and other members of the class that i knew what direction i meant and that i knew the NDP was the furthest left party.
I hate the NDP and i hate every time I've felt the need to defend them from chuds attacking from the right.
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Sherad @lemmygrad.ml - 3day
Saw it coming from a mile away but still disappointed, haha.
The rightward drift continues in full swing. Fucking idiots in charge of the NDP must not remember the literal history of their party.
To be clear, I'm only disappointed because the communist parties in Canada don't really have much mainstream traction. NDP as a bigger...ish party at least has some dwindling percentage of MPs that are actually still activists.
No idea what to do up here mang. Doing some tenant organizing and stuff like that but fuck I'm exhausted.
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someone [comrade/them, they/them] - 3day
And the NDP demonstrates their spinelessness once again.
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Collatz_problem [comrade/them] - 3day
They have a spine to stand against anti-war activists.
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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 3day
He probably wouldn't even fucking win a nomination, he was probably only going to introduce semi-publicly some more critiques of the party in regards to NATO/imperialism, liberal zionism/IdPol racism, etc. But still they can't even let him and us have that.
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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 3day
Everyone, are we goin' with CPC or CPC-ML then?
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sexywheat [none/use name] - 2day
The left in this country is a god damned mess. The NDP at this point is a lost cause (as if I needed a reminder). I've had friends in the CPC that say it's been in something of a state of crisis in the last few years. I know little to nothing about the CPC-ML, never met anyone in it.
Other than that, the landscape is dominated by trot cults and sectarians.
I found a small, local marxist-leninist org that seems promising. Tiny, but at least they're not a cult. Maybe it's something.
I dunno man, all I wanted was for Yves to get on the debate stage they still wouldn't let us have that single crumb.
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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 2day
►Looking for a new Canadian party
►Ask the pamphleteer if their party is Trotskyist or Marxist-Leninist
►They don't understand
►Pull out my copy of Foundations of Leninism explaining what is Leninist and what is Trotskyist
►They laugh and says "it's a good party, sir"
►Sign up for the party
►It's Trotskyist (NCPC)
sexywheat in canada
NDP Blocks Anti-War Candidate Yves Engler From Leadership Race, Citing Foreign Policy Views and Activism
https://globalgreen.news/ndp-blocks-anti-war-candidate-yves-engler-from-leadership-race-citing-foreign-policy-views-and-activism/I knew this was going to happen but I'm still fucking livid right now.
In my class for my red seal i said I'm to the left of the NDP as a way to state my beliefs without killing the 70 year old broken man teaching us.
It took probably an entire 5 minutes of reassuring him and other members of the class that i knew what direction i meant and that i knew the NDP was the furthest left party.
I hate the NDP and i hate every time I've felt the need to defend them from chuds attacking from the right.
Saw it coming from a mile away but still disappointed, haha.
The rightward drift continues in full swing. Fucking idiots in charge of the NDP must not remember the literal history of their party.
To be clear, I'm only disappointed because the communist parties in Canada don't really have much mainstream traction. NDP as a bigger...ish party at least has some dwindling percentage of MPs that are actually still activists.
No idea what to do up here mang. Doing some tenant organizing and stuff like that but fuck I'm exhausted.
And the NDP demonstrates their spinelessness once again.
They have a spine to stand against anti-war activists.
He probably wouldn't even fucking win a nomination, he was probably only going to introduce semi-publicly some more critiques of the party in regards to NATO/imperialism, liberal zionism/IdPol racism, etc. But still they can't even let him and us have that.
Everyone, are we goin' with CPC or CPC-ML then?
The left in this country is a god damned mess. The NDP at this point is a lost cause (as if I needed a reminder). I've had friends in the CPC that say it's been in something of a state of crisis in the last few years. I know little to nothing about the CPC-ML, never met anyone in it.
Other than that, the landscape is dominated by trot cults and sectarians.
I found a small, local marxist-leninist org that seems promising. Tiny, but at least they're not a cult. Maybe it's something.
I dunno man, all I wanted was for Yves to get on the debate stage they still wouldn't let us have that single crumb.
►Looking for a new Canadian party
►Ask the pamphleteer if their party is Trotskyist or Marxist-Leninist
►They don't understand
►Pull out my copy of Foundations of Leninism explaining what is Leninist and what is Trotskyist
►They laugh and says "it's a good party, sir"
►Sign up for the party
►It's Trotskyist (NCPC)