Capitalism Can't Be Fixed

Join us in Winnipeg at 7:30 PM this evening. We're in town for the NDP convention and will be hosting two nights of music, activism and solidarity.
Where: Rudy’s Eat & Drink (375 Graham Ave, just steps from the RBC Convention Centre)
What: We’ll have free food, great conversation, and live music from Nicky Mehta, Hörs and Papa Mambo!
We’ll also have new copies of the policy platform to share and more. It’s a chance to meet in person, connect and build momentum together. Free and open to all - bring friends!
Event details for both days here: https://www.facebook.com/share/18byB94fTM/

Join us tomorrow night (Wed March 25 at 630pmET) as Dr. James Deutsch, critical psychiatrist who has long been active in the solidarity movements, talks to us a bit about how to handle your mental health as an activist when up against the overwhelming and all-encompassing power of capitalism, imperialism and settler-colonialism.

He will share a brief presentation and then transition to an interactive session where we can share stories and issues we’ve had to find actionable ideas together.

Registration link below.

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Jim is a now semi-retired psychiatrist. For decades, after an initial 10 years of basic neuroscience research, he has had a variety of roles, including staff at a youth crisis centre, consultant to Sick Kids neurology department, preparing reports for refugee asylum hearings, and support for an Indigenous agency working with children and parents. He is a member of Health Workers Alliance for Palestine, the Critical Psychiatry Network (critical of mainstream diagnosis and Big Pharma), an international working group investigating nuclear power and the use of uranium based weapons in various localities including currently in the Middle East, and other anti-war and anti-colonial/extractivist organizations.



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Today we’ll be continuing our political education series. Join the president of the Iranian Canadian Congress, Mona Ghassemi and author Yves Engler for a discussion on Canada’s role in the war on Iran. Register here:

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We'll be holding our weekly educational session this Wednesday, March 11 on degrowth and ecological politics with Greg Mikkelson. In this session we'll delve into what a truly ecological politics might mean for our economies, communities and future.

Greg Mikkelson is a former tenured professor of environmental studies who lectured and published in ecology, philosophy, and economics, with a focus on the nature, causes, and value of biological diversity. He also helped lead efforts to divest his university from fossil fuels. Today, he volunteers as a researcher and organizer with a growing international movement working to shut down tar sands pipelines in the Great Lakes / St. Lawrence watershed.

All are welcome - bring your questions!

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1ZYC7QqpRWeyVrSp8g5WGQ #/registration

📣 Read the full platform

Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed — Onward to a Socialist Future was collectively drafted by 45 activists and researchers. From housing and climate to foreign policy, decolonization and economic democracy, this platform outlines a bold path toward a socialist future.

Read it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UvNWvsh9ohtmWiM3FMQNnfZeGakylAFj/view

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Anti-Imperialist Organizer Jasmine Peardon Launches Campaign for NDP President; Calls for Democratic and Socialist Renewal at 2026 Winnipeg Convention

March 6, 2026 — Jasmine Peardon, organizer, policy researcher, and grassroots activist, has announced her candidacy for President of the New Democratic Party ahead of the 2026 NDP Convention. Running as a direct response to the party’s administrative "gatekeeping", Peardon is proposing to rebuild the party’s internal infrastructure to one that upholds democracy and encourages policy debate.

Peardon, who helped lead the drafting of the policy platform Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed: Onwards to a Socialist Future, is running on a platform centered on internal democracy, political clarity and rebuilding the party’s connection to social movements, such as the Palestine solidarity movement. Her campaign focuses on internal transparency and reclaiming the party structures from the leadership of National Director Lucy Watson and President Mary Shortall, who she says have enforced exclusionary mechanisms to keep grassroots and socialist voices out of the party.

“The executive leadership of the NDP is profoundly misaligned with the party values of democracy, justice and integrity” Peardon said. “They have obstructed the 2026 Leadership race, stripped membership, misclassified political critique as slander, and violated proper party procedures. All this, because they cannot tolerate socialist and anti-war debate within the party”.

The NDP President plays a key role in overseeing internal governance and ensuring democratic processes are upheld between conventions. Peardon says her campaign is focused on democratizing decision-making at the top, and decentralizing party power to place trust back into the members as organizers and policy developers. She argues that meaningful political renewal requires not only proposing bold policy but a party structure that enables members and movements to debate, organize, and lead.

“The party needs to rebuild its internal infrastructure to one that upholds democracy and encourages policy debate,” she said. “If we cannot even practice democracy within our own party, we can’t credibly promise it to Canadians. Further, if we can’t tolerate policy disagreement, how can we credibly lead such a diverse nation?”.

As part of a younger generation of organizers shaped by the climate crisis, labour precarity, and rising inequality, Peardon says the party must make space for new voices and new leadership if it hopes to remain relevant.

“The NDP has evolved alongside capitalism,” said Peardon. “As economic and political power of the working class has been transferred upwards, our party has mirrored this centralization. It is only when the fight against capitalism is embraced within the party will there be space for bold policies and true democracy.”

Her campaign emphasizes:

-Strengthening internal transparency, democracy and accountability

--Opening space for grassroots activist, socialist and anti-imperialist voices

-Uplifting labour militants, community leaders and movement organizers

-Ending backroom gatekeeping and centralization

“The NDP needs to root itself in the socialist and anti-imperialist movements already building working-class power across the country,” Peardon said. “The role of President must be reoriented back to providing strategic leadership grounded in workers' interests, rather than accommodating corporate interests that dilute the party’s commitment to structural economic transformation”.

Peardon will address delegates at the Winnipeg convention as part of her candidacy for NDP President.

For more information: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/jasmine-peardon Email: [email protected] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalismcantbefixed/