Tom Sandborn
Columnist at Vancouver Sun
Writer at Freelance
Articles
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6 days ago |
rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn
We celebrate May Day annually as a worker’s holiday, (despite the attempt by business class voices to replace it with the anodyne Labour Day in September), an opportunity to count our successes and challenges in the age-old fight for worker rights. We remember one of our highest principles, that an injury to one is an injury to all. One vital way to honor that principle is by taking concrete action in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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1 month ago |
popularresistance.org | Tom Sandborn
Above photo: COPE candidate Sean Orr successfully secured the most votes in Vancouver’s 2025 by-election. COPE / Facebook. Solidarity has always been key to workers’ struggles. And even in today’s era of rising fascism and anti-worker rhetoric, it remains a powerful force for change. They say that if we fail to learn the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat it. Recent events in my hometown of Vancouver and across North America call this warning to mind today.
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1 month ago |
rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn
In the 19th century, the spectre haunting Europe was communism, or so Marx argued. In our century, a new spectre is as globalized as the economy, and its name is toxic masculinity. As a filthy, tang-coloured ooze of neo-fascism spreads over the globe, it brings with it a new popularity for online cults of toxic masculinity, resentful incels, armed militias and leaders who champion a hard bodied, hard hearted version of masculinity, violent and brutal.
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1 month ago |
rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn
They say that if we fail to learn the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat it. Recent events in my hometown of Vancouver and across North America call this warning to mind today.
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1 month ago |
thetyee.ca | Tom Sandborn
The Passenger Seat Vijay Khurana Biblioasis (2025) Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners The Tyee is Hiring a Director of Operations Come join our growing non-profit newsroom. Apply by April 12 Owning Up George Pelecanos Mulholland Books (2024) Growing up in the United States mid-century, I was exposed to a lot of bad lessons about what it meant to be a real man.
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