Todd Gordon
@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social
Professor, editor of & contributor to Midnight Sun Mag, contributor to Spectre Journal, author of Blood of Extraction, Imperialist Canada, Cops Crime & Capitalism.
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NEW: David Camfield on the important wins and equally significant missed opportunities of the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike.
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The Air Canada Flight Attendants' Strike and the Need for Greater Union Democracy
David Camfield on the important wins and equally significant missed opportunities of the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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NEW: Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran.
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Useful Enemies
Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran.
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August 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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NEW: Midnight Sun speaks to Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders.
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Internationalizing the Coalition
A conversation with Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Here’s Jeff Webber’s and my intervention on the nature of the Trump regime and fascism for @journalspectre.bsky.social
Hey y'all! This Tuesday we've got @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social writing on Trumpism as a specific variety of authoritarianism and it's connection to a liberalism in crisis.
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal
Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Here’s Jeff Webber’s and my intervention on the nature of the Trump regime and fascism for @journalspectre.bsky.social
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NEW: David Camfield on current conditions – and hope – for communists.
An excerpt from Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (@fernpub.bsky.social).
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An excerpt from Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (@fernpub.bsky.social).
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What Can We Hope For?
David Camfield on current conditions – and hope – for communists. An excerpt from Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (Fernwood Publishing).
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May 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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They can complain about him all they want, but this is Trump’s gift to Ford & a Canadian capital fantasizing about rolling back labour, environmental & indigenous rights by decades.
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Ontario’s proposed ‘special economic zones’ are antidemocratic power grab, opponents warn
Doug Ford’s government is positioning Bill 5 as a way speed up approvals for critical-minerals projects and others
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May 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
They can complain about him all they want, but this is Trump’s gift to Ford & a Canadian capital fantasizing about rolling back labour, environmental & indigenous rights by decades.
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The main auto workers' union, Unifor, has passed a resolution calling for plants to be seized if companies try to shift production to the U.S., and at a Windsor tool maker, workers blocked trucks that were trying to leave with equipment.
April 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The main auto workers' union, Unifor, has passed a resolution calling for plants to be seized if companies try to shift production to the U.S., and at a Windsor tool maker, workers blocked trucks that were trying to leave with equipment.
Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social: @johncke.bsky.social on transforming the trade war into class war.
NEW: John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
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From Trade War to Class War
John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
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April 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social: @johncke.bsky.social on transforming the trade war into class war.
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NEW: Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.
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Ritual and Repetition
Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action.
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March 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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The “section” of the US ruling class most committed to rethinking US foreign policy in an increasingly multipolar world is led politically by those the least capable of diplomatically maneuvering through it. The US in the 3rd decade of the 21st c; diplomacy in the age of social media & reality tv.
February 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The “section” of the US ruling class most committed to rethinking US foreign policy in an increasingly multipolar world is led politically by those the least capable of diplomatically maneuvering through it. The US in the 3rd decade of the 21st c; diplomacy in the age of social media & reality tv.
My discussion with David Camfield & Mostafa Henaway on the dangers of the left nationalist response to Trump’s tariff war.
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#50: Trump's Tariffs: How Should the Left Respond?
Trump's Tariffs: How Should the Left Respond?
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The threat of sweeping US tariffs has touched off a political crisis in the Canadian state. Todd Gordon and Mostafa Henaway discuss how the left is
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February 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My discussion with David Camfield & Mostafa Henaway on the dangers of the left nationalist response to Trump’s tariff war.
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Here’s my response to the resurgence of Canadian nationalism — left & otherwise — in the context of the tariff war: a political dead end, we need instead a much more far reaching, & internationalist, response animated by struggles from below.
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We Need Workers’ Solidarity, Not “National Unity,” in Response to Trump’s Tariffs
Todd Gordon on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and on the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders.
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February 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Here’s my response to the resurgence of Canadian nationalism — left & otherwise — in the context of the tariff war: a political dead end, we need instead a much more far reaching, & internationalist, response animated by struggles from below.
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Weakening environmental regulations, more pipeline expansion, defending “our” critical minerals — it’s clear Cdn capital & the state are exploiting the crisis caused by Trump’s tariff war to pursue what’s always been their plan but which is made much easier if we accept _their_ nationalist agenda.
Trudeau’s comments that Trump wants critical minerals highlights U.S. reliance on Canadian resources
Prime Minister said Donald Trump wants to annex Canada to gain access to critical minerals, adding to existing signs that the U.S. President realizes the value of Canadian resources to his country
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February 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Weakening environmental regulations, more pipeline expansion, defending “our” critical minerals — it’s clear Cdn capital & the state are exploiting the crisis caused by Trump’s tariff war to pursue what’s always been their plan but which is made much easier if we accept _their_ nationalist agenda.
Great interview with @alansearslefty.bsky.social on his new book Eros & Alienation.
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Eros and Alienation: Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities — Radicals in Conversation
With Alan Sears. In this episode we discuss the new book, Eros and Alienation: Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities. Alan Sears lays out his expansive understanding of key ideas like labo...
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February 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Great interview with @alansearslefty.bsky.social on his new book Eros & Alienation.
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Trump, the anti-monetarist, has a different theory of inflation.
“If the Fed had spent less time on [diversity, equity and inclusion], gender ideology, ‘green’ energy, and fake climate change, inflation would never have been a problem.”
“If the Fed had spent less time on [diversity, equity and inclusion], gender ideology, ‘green’ energy, and fake climate change, inflation would never have been a problem.”
January 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Trump, the anti-monetarist, has a different theory of inflation.
“If the Fed had spent less time on [diversity, equity and inclusion], gender ideology, ‘green’ energy, and fake climate change, inflation would never have been a problem.”
“If the Fed had spent less time on [diversity, equity and inclusion], gender ideology, ‘green’ energy, and fake climate change, inflation would never have been a problem.”
Just an “awkward gesture”according to the msm & zionists? By the man doubling down on his support for the AFD, speaking to its election rally today & insisting “There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that.”
Elon Musk makes surprise appearance at AfD event in eastern Germany
Tycoon tells 4,500 people at campaign event in Halle to be proud of German culture in speech via video link
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January 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Just an “awkward gesture”according to the msm & zionists? By the man doubling down on his support for the AFD, speaking to its election rally today & insisting “There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that.”
Clearly in-fighting in Trump circles isn’t bw a non-far right (the tech billionaires) and the far-right MAGA core, but bw far right factions. Whether they’ll be reconciled or it’ll combust, supporting visas for tech workers doesn’t negate support for the European far right or giving nazi salutes.
January 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Clearly in-fighting in Trump circles isn’t bw a non-far right (the tech billionaires) and the far-right MAGA core, but bw far right factions. Whether they’ll be reconciled or it’ll combust, supporting visas for tech workers doesn’t negate support for the European far right or giving nazi salutes.
Ya, running not one but two different central banks and being on the board of major multinational corporations means you're totally outside politics. A real fresh face. You can totally trust him.
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Mark Carney casts himself as a political outsider with launch of Liberal leadership bid
Former central banker pledges to focus on the economy, argues for less federal spending in move to differentiate himself from Justin Trudeau
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January 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Ya, running not one but two different central banks and being on the board of major multinational corporations means you're totally outside politics. A real fresh face. You can totally trust him.
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Another expression of how politically useless and bereft of vision the NDP is. Singh’s default response is to defend the free trade status quo premised in the deepening property rights of capital at the expense of workers & the environment.
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Singh calls for suspension of critical minerals exports to U.S. if Trump imposes tariffs
Canada is the largest foreign supplier to the U.S. of minerals such as potash, indium, aluminum and tellurium
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January 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Another expression of how politically useless and bereft of vision the NDP is. Singh’s default response is to defend the free trade status quo premised in the deepening property rights of capital at the expense of workers & the environment.
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NEW: Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects.
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Eros and Revolution
Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects.
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January 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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A little bright spot in these dark times.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician, 1928-2025 on.ft.com/4jgWP3Y
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician, 1928-2025 on.ft.com/4jgWP3Y
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician, 1928-2025
National Front founder led the movement for decades before passing the baton to his daughter Marine
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January 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A little bright spot in these dark times.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician, 1928-2025 on.ft.com/4jgWP3Y
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician, 1928-2025 on.ft.com/4jgWP3Y
Not that this climate initiative by financial capital should’ve been taken seriously but it’s telling that with Trump’s election they’re not even going to pretend they’re doing anything meaningful.
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Major U.S. banks quitting Carney-led climate alliance ahead of Trump’s return to office
Morgan Stanley is the latest to leave the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, against a backdrop of growing backlash to environmental, social and governance measures
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January 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Not that this climate initiative by financial capital should’ve been taken seriously but it’s telling that with Trump’s election they’re not even going to pretend they’re doing anything meaningful.
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