Announcing the Return of Red Continent to the Blogosphere!

Dear friends, comrades and readers,

Red Continent has been inactive for the last two and a half years. And by inactive, I mean totally inactive.

All that is about to change. I am proud to announce my return to the world of blogging!

Several events have spurred me to this decision. Chiefly, my involvement in the progressive student movement, the communist movement and in intellectual discourse on politics, sociology and history have confronted me with this immediate task. My training in journalism at Mohawk College would seem to have been a total waste if I were to not put it to use, and what better use than to advance the causes that are so dear to me?!

In the two and a half years since my last post (October 16, 2009, according to my dashboard), much has changed.

Although I am, sad to say, no longer involved in the United Socialist Movement of the Americas in any real way, I am proud to proclaim my membership and involvement in the Young Communist League of Canada and the Communist Party of Canada. I joined them in Fall 2009 and Spring 2011, respectively.

Along with this change in my organizational membership has come a shift in my political thinking. While I used to strictly identify as a “libertarian socialist”, I am now a shameless communist in the Marxist-Leninist tradition. All of my old beliefs remain strong – anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, anti-imperialism, support for national liberation, the labour movement, feminism, etc. All that has changed is my approach to activism and my view on socialist countries.

But, I’d prefer to let my journalism and my ideas speak for themselves. The more I write for the progressive student movement at McMaster University, where I am currently enrolled in Humanities I with an eye for Honours History, the more I feel like I’m doing exactly what I was made to do!

On that note, to new readers – welcome! To former readers – welcome back!

To everyone – I hope you find the content on Red Continent, whether my own or anybody else’s, informative, thought-provoking, and worthy of further exploration into the topics at hand!

In peace and solidarity and with red salutes all around from the heart of the Golden Horseshoe,

Rick Gunderman