Settler colonialism: What’s in a name?
Red Lake Chief makes a speech to the governor of Red River at Fort Douglas in 1825. Fort Douglas was the first fort associated with the Hudson’s Bay Company near…
Bryan D. Palmer
Colonialism, capitalism, and Canada, 1500-2025: How the past is before us
“The Surrender of Poundmaker to Major-General Middleton at Battleford, Saskatchewan, on May 26, 1885.” Painting by Robert William Rutherford. Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-274-2. ...
Winnipeg, 1919: How understanding the past is a product of the present
Demonstrators protest the trials of the Winnipeg General Strike leaders. Photo courtesy National Archives of Canada. For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers’ Revolt Edited by…
The incredible banality of political being in Ontario’s 2022 election
In social relations, it is often said that pride goeth before the fall. What prefaces the parliamentary cretinism that flows from the crowning of bourgeois governments? The 2022 election campaign…
The fortunate Marxist: Ernie Tate (1934-2021)
Ernie Tate (1934-2021) was a long-standing supporter and leading member of Trotskyist groups in Canada and the United Kingdom and a founder of the International Marxist Group and Vietnam Solidarity…
Socialist savant: Leo Panitch (1945-2020)
Leo Panitch (1945-2020), Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. Image by Canadian Dimension. Families help to make us what we are, even if we turn out to be not…
Weather report: Biden barometer falling—storm front for the left
A man climbs a stoplight holding a Biden-Harris banner in Washington DC. Photo by Alejandro Alvarez/WTOP Radio. Oh, what’ll you do now my blue-eyed son? Oh, what’ll you do now,…
Eric Hobsbawm’s Century
Eric Hobsbawm during a lecture at the Central European University, 1993. Photo from Twitter. Were the British Marxist historians a coherent lot, congealed in the sameness of their affiliation to…
1919: Recovering a Legacy
Illustration from 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike by the Graphic History Collective and David Lester (Between the Lines 2019). When the world watched Winnipeg Alexander Bittelman,…
Rebel Youth offers depth but lacks dimension
Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada Ian Milligan University of British Columbia Press, 2014 Many readers of this magazine will remember April 1971.…
Dining Out in Dinkytown
Available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration If you are in Minneapolis, after a hard day’s night, the place to go for a morning pick-me-up is…