Nine Candidates Vie to Lead Federal NDP
Submitted on November 10, 2011
By Carl Bronski - WSWS
Having been recently catapulted into the role of Official Opposition, the trade union-based [New Democratic Party] and all nine of its leadership candidates are seeking to convince the Canadian ruling class that the social democrats can be trusted to rule on their behalf, supplanting the Liberal Party as the bourgeoisie’s “left” party of government. Toward this end, the NDP has moved sharply to the right since it recorded its best-ever electoral result in last May’s federal election.
