I'm sure you are aware that FGS regulations prohibit SSHRC funded students from engaging in employed work on campus as a matter of policy. Consequently, I'm not a member of 3903.
If the 3903 newspaper refers to "Critical Times," it was founded, if I'm not mistaken, by SSHRC funded students, as it were, and, when I was in first year PhD, the editorial board consisted largely in SSHRC funded students. (I don't know who is involved with it now.) But "Critical Times" isn't (wasn't?) a 3903 newspaper, a project of the faculty association, the GSA and 3903. All the same, I can't speak to the revolutionary desires (or lack thereof) of my colleagues - I rarely see them or talk to them as it is!
There's no reason not to pay attention to electoral politics, but, at the same time, there is no reason to believe that electoral politics can ever have a revolutionary promise.
YUFA stopped funding the paper, so it's the GSA and CUPE, and in the three months I've been involved, I have had very little contact with the GSA, and more with CUPE.
As for the revolutionary promise of electoral politics, well duh. I bear no illusions, but the differences are significant enough to keep paying attention.
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If the 3903 newspaper refers to "Critical Times," it was founded, if I'm not mistaken, by SSHRC funded students, as it were, and, when I was in first year PhD, the editorial board consisted largely in SSHRC funded students. (I don't know who is involved with it now.) But "Critical Times" isn't (wasn't?) a 3903 newspaper, a project of the faculty association, the GSA and 3903. All the same, I can't speak to the revolutionary desires (or lack thereof) of my colleagues - I rarely see them or talk to them as it is!
There's no reason not to pay attention to electoral politics, but, at the same time, there is no reason to believe that electoral politics can ever have a revolutionary promise.
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As for the revolutionary promise of electoral politics, well duh. I bear no illusions, but the differences are significant enough to keep paying attention.