Photo by McGill Daily Winnipeg, October 18, 2016: The decision taken by Green Party of Canada convention delegates to approve a resolution supporting the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel in August 2016 was controversial, so much so that the leadership decided to convene a special general meeting
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Canadian Dimension: Jim Naylor: The Fate of Labour Socialism
The following is excerpted from the University of Toronto Press
Almost a century before the New Democratic Party rode the first “orange wave,” their predecessors imagined a movement that could rally Canadians against economic insecurity, win access to necessary services such as health care, and confront the threat of war. The party they built during the Great Depression, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), permanently transformed the country’s politics.
Past histories have described the CCF as social democrats guided by middle-class intellectuals, a party which shied away from labour radicalism and communist agitation. James Naylor’s assiduous research tells a very different story: a CCF created by working-class activists steeped in Marxist ideology who sought to create a movement that would be both loyal to its socialist principles and appealing to the wider electorate.
The Fate of Labour Socialism is a fundamental reexamination of the CCF and Canadian working-class politics in the 1930s, one that will help historians better understand Canada’s political, intellectual, and labour history.
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Winnipeg, June 17, 2016 – Representatives of Friends of Public Services, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and Solidarity Winnipeg discuss how Canada Post could become the bub of a post-ca…
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Winnipeg, July 13, 2016 – Canadian Dimension Magazine convened this panel to discuss the implications, from a socialist perspective, of the British referendum decision to leave the European Union.
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Canadian Dimension: Canada Since 1960 Toronto book launch
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Canadian Dimension Magazine was proud to launch our new book, Canada Since 1960: A People’s History at the Imperial Pub in Toronto on June 7th.
Moderated by Bryan Palmer. Prese…
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Winnipeg, June 10, 2016 — First published in 1963, Canadian Dimension is Canada’s oldest soc…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: An evening with Naomi Klein in Winnipeg
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Award-winning Canadian author Naomi Klein spoke on climate and economic justice at Knox United Church. The event was hosted by the Canadia…
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