What’s Left? Canada’s ‘global justice’ movement and colonial amnesia

This article examines the failure of Canada’s larger, Left-leaning NGOs active in global justice networks to properly engage with the struggles of Indigenous peoples. Taking a ‘White progressive economic nationalist’ position that fails to examine Canada’s historical and contemporary exercise of colonialism, such NGOs end up reproducing myths of nation-building, fail to address colonial injustices closer to home and ignore the resources that Indigenous struggles offer in the fight against neoliberalism.