Yooooo sorry I just saw this post, should have commented sooner.

I have friends in Fightback, and was loosely involved and/or adjacent to them for about 16 years.

Check this thread for angry commentary about Fightback (so I don’t have to type it out again)

I could write a novella about all this but I’ll try to keep it brief.

There’s not a lot of options for left wing activism in Canada, honestly there are no perfect choices, maybe not even any good ones. Fightback is very alluring because they are exceedingly well organised and have a very clear vision. However, they are also:

• A glorified book club that sells a newspaper

• A cult

FightBack has excellent political analysis, easily among the best, but they tend to focus on recruiting young students and I don’t think they have much if any impact on actually improving conditions for workers (or anybody)

Hid my angry comments behind a spoiler tag:

spoiler

They don’t actually do anything; the ultimate armchair critics. Their only goal is to grow the size of their own organisation, because they view themselves to be THE revolutionary socialist party and they “can’t be effective until they are big enough”. So if you find them at an event about housing issues for example, they don’t actually care about the topic of the event or the event itself, they just show up to find people to join Fightback, that’s it.

I honestly hope that I am completely wrong about them, and maybe someday they will prove it, but from what I have observed of Fightback over quite a few years is that they. are. a. fucking. cult.