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Articles by David Black
Ben Morea: Behind the Black Mask
In September 2016 a New York Times article, ‘The Artist Ben Morea Returns to the Site of the Revolution’, covered the exhibition of six of Ben Morea’s mid-60s paintings at the White Columns gallery in Chelsea, New York.] Ben Morea (1940-2026) died at his home in Colorado on 2nd May. ‘Ben was not simply an old revolutionary from another era, nor a nostalgic remnant of the American counterculture.
Canada’s Africa strategy is a landmark moment for Canada-Africa relations, but still needs work Original
For the first time in its history, Canada has unveiled a comprehensive Africa strategy, marking a significant milestone in the Canadian approach to engaging with the African continent. Launched on March 6 by Liberal MP Rob Oliphant, the parliamentary secretary to the foreign affairs minister, the strategy represents a crucial step towards a more coherent and intentional relationship with Africa. This development is worthy of praise for several reasons.
Civil society groups need to prepare for possible Conservative government
With a federal election in Canada likely this spring and the Conservative Party leading in opinion polls, civil society organizations (CSOs) need to think seriously about how they will engage with a possible new Conservative government on key public policy issues. These include natural resources, the environment, (im)migration and human rights. A particularly notable example is likely to be international development policies.
John Cameron
John Cameron is a professor of international development studies at Dalhousie University.
How Green was Karl Marx? On Kohei Saito and the Anthropocene
First published at International Marxist-Humanist. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism. By Kohei Saito Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback: ISBN-13978-1-009366182. Environmental activists, inasmuch as they pay any attention to Marxism, tend to dismiss it as ‘productivist’. It is not hard to see why.
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