The idea of creating an English-language issue of Commons journal has been discussed for a long time, and it became especially acute in connection with the Russian full-scale invasion and the emerging significant interest in Ukraine among foreign audiences.
David Mandel and I share much more in common than our given name. We’re both French-speaking Anglophones who live in Montréal. We both consider ourselves humanists who want to help build a kinder, more democratic and socialist world. But while reading Mandel’s August 2 piece in this publication, it became clear that we profoundly disagree on how to get there.
Dale T McKinley It is unfortunately all too predictable that some on the left are consistently calling for imperial nations/the West to stop objectifying the people of the Global South, while refusing to apply the same to the majority of people and the left in Ukraine and Russia.