Rebels, Reds, Radicals
Author | : Ian McKay |
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Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Ian McKay |
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Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : David Bell |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-07-08 |
Genre | : Radicalism |
ISBN | : 9781910170632 |
Author | : Ian McKay |
Publisher | : Between The Lines |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 1896357970 |
An engaging introduction to the vibrant history of the political left in Canada
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ISBN | : 9780862811310 |
Author | : Michele Bollinger |
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Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social movements |
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Author | : Patryk Polec |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773582088 |
Polish Canadians typically identify themselves as stringent anti-Communists, a label solidified by the legacies of the 1980s Solidarity movement, its founder Lech Walesa, and the widespread anti-Communist riots that helped topple the Communist regime in 1989. Hurrah Revolutionaries challenges this common perception by examining the Polish immigrant community in Canada and the development of radical and traditionally "deviant" ideologies during the interwar period until the end of the Second World War. Patryk Polec unveils a versatile, well-funded, and influential Polish pro-Communist movement with a talented leadership that worked tirelessly to persuade traditionally conservative and religious immigrants to adopt an ideology that was anti-nationalist and atheist. He traces the roots of socialist support in Poland, its transplantation to Canada where the movement enjoyed its greatest support, the challenges the movement faced within an ethnic community influenced by Catholicism, and the complications caused by its links to the Communist International. Polec offers a deeper understanding of the ways in which the Communist Party was able to appeal to certain ethnic groups through cultural outreach as well as its complicated and often counter-productive relationship with the Soviet Union. Grounded in recently declassified Polish consular documents and RCMP surveillance reports, Hurrah Revolutionaries is the first full-length study of Polish Communists in Canada, a group that constituted a substantial portion of the country’s socialist left in the twentieth century.
Author | : Saul Alinsky |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307756890 |
“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.
Author | : Saul David Alinsky |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Ian McKay |
Publisher | : Between the Lines |
Total Pages | : 733 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1926662334 |
In Reasoning Otherwise, author Ian McKay returns to the concepts and methods of “reconnaissance” first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals to examine the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920. Reasoning Otherwise highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. As McKay demonstrated in Rebels, Reds, Radicals, the Canadian left is alive and flourishing, and has shaped the Canadian experience in subtle and powerful ways. Reasoning Otherwise continues this tradition of offering important new insight into the deep roots of leftism in Canada.
Author | : Julie Guard |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 148751476X |
Radical Housewives is a history of Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women’s organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based popular movement for state control of prices and made other far-reaching demands on the state. As radical consumer activists, the Housewives engaged in gender-transgressive political activism that challenged the government to protect consumers’ interests rather than just those of business while popularizing socialist solutions to the economic crises of the Great Depression and the immediate postwar years. Julie Guard's exhaustive research, including archival research and interviews with twelve former Housewives, recovers a history of women’s social justice activism in an era often considered dormant and adds a Canadian dimension to the history of politicized consumerism and of politicized materialism. Radical Housewives reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left’s role in the origins of the food security movement.