{"id":301519,"date":"2017-03-31T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T07:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-ndp-leadership-candidates-try-to-cover-up-its-right-wing-record\/"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T07:32:07","slug":"canada-ndp-leadership-candidates-try-to-cover-up-its-right-wing-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-ndp-leadership-candidates-try-to-cover-up-its-right-wing-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: NDP leadership candidates try to cover up its right-wing record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Canada: NDP leadership candidates try to cover up its right-wing record<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Roger Jordan<br \/>\n    <br \/>31 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Four candidates have now entered the race to succeed Thomas Mulcair as leader of Canada\u2019s New Democratic Party (NDP).<\/p>\n<p>The party top brass, aided and abetted by the pseudo-left, are desperately trying to generate some excitement in the race, which will be decided in the fall, with claims that the NDP is \u201cturning left\u201d and back to its \u201csocial-democratic roots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reality is none of the declared or potential leadership candidates has any intention of repudiating the NDP\u2019s decades-long support for capitalist austerity and imperialist war.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates are Peter Julian, the former leader of the NDP\u2019s parliamentary caucus,<\/p>\n<p>Member of Parliament (MP) Nikki Ashton, who mounted an unsuccessful leadership bid in 2012, and fellow MPs Charlie Angus and Guy Caron.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership contest was made necessary because last year\u2019s party convention, to the dismay of the party establishment and most of the trade union bureaucracy, voted to oust Mulcair in a leadership review. A key factor in the vote was rancor among NDP staffers, MPs and ex-MPs at their dashed career prospects after Mulcair led the NDP to a crushing defeat in the October 2015 federal election. Four years after the NDP, under the late Jack Layton, had formed the Official Opposition for the first time ever, it was reduced to a distant third place, winning less than 20 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>All four challengers to succeed Mulcair are determined to bury any substantive discussion of the NDP\u2019s 2015 debacle, including their own roles in supporting the NDP\u2019s lurch still further right. In so far as mention of it cannot be entirely avoided, they intend to place all blame on Mulcair and a handful of his aides.<\/p>\n<p>When&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/31\/ndpl-m31.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Canada: NDP leadership candidates try to cover up its right-wing record By Roger Jordan 31 March 2017 Four candidates have now entered the race to succeed Thomas Mulcair as leader of Canada\u2019s New Democratic Party (NDP). The party top brass, aided and abetted by the pseudo-left, are desperately trying to generate some excitement in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}