The NDP: where it’s been, where it’s at, and where it’s going

The NDP has ambitions to displace the Libs and transform the party system, as in Britain, with a socialist party on the left and a conservative party on the right engaged in a democratic class struggle between haves and have-nots.

TORONTO—The "New" Democratic Party has been a Parliamentary fixture since 1921 when J.S. Woodsworth appeared as the leader of the Independent Labour Party. Known from 1932 to 1960 as the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the party became the NDP in 1961. It has come a long way since then...

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