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The NDP in Power: Illusion and Reality

Studies in Political Economy

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Title The NDP in Power: Illusion and Reality
 
Creator Panitch, Leo
 
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Description What about us Canadians, eh? Just as an unbridled capitalist spirit once more stalks the globe, just as the final collapse of authoritarian Communism quickly is followed by the rejection of social democracy even in its Swedish heartland, the Canadian electorate takes it upon itself to provide the international Left with at least a momentary respite, a tonic against too deep a bout of depression. When Ontario (with a population larger than Sweden's) elected a majority NDP government in September 1990, this marked the first significant electoral breakthrough by the Left internationally for almost a decade. Scarcely a year later, as the hallowed counter-revolutionary cemeteries of Upper Canada still heaved and groaned above the United Empire Loyalists wheeling in their graves, the ghosts of the old revolutionary spirit of the western hinterland awakened to overwhelming NDP victories in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
 
Publisher Studies in Political Economy
 
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Date 2010-05-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/13013
 
Source Studies in Political Economy; Vol 37 (1992): Canadian Political Economy Faces the 21st Century
1918-7033
0707-8552
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/13013/9907
 
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