Western Clarion covers gallery Western Clarion (1903-1925) was a newspaper of the Socialist Party of Canada. https://prolitca.wordpress.com/newspapers/the-western-clarion/ This…
No Compromise - No Political Trading: The Marxian Socialist Tradition in British Columbia From https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0100079…
A Victim of Power (Corp) and Police: The La Presse Conflict and the Tear Gas Suffocation of Michele Gauthier A report on the 1971 conflict at La Presse and the police killing of socialist feminist Michele Gauthier. The broader struggle against Power Corp., the impact of the police killing, and the development of the Common Front and subsequent general strikes.
Iron Bars on the House of Labour How accepting surveillance officers and other parts of the repressive state into trade unions is a threat to organizers across so-called Canada…
Monopoly capitalism and the rise of syndicalism – Mark Leier A portion of the first chapter of labour historian Mark Leier’s 1990 book [em]Where the Fraser River…
Imagine - Socialist Party of Canada Imagine is the publication of the Socialist Party of Canada since 2002
Drumheller coal mining strike of 1919 A short history of a strike by coal miners organised in the syndicalist One Big Union in Alberta which was repressed by bosses and the state.
Beyond waving the red flag: towards a political critique of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Revolutionary Student Movement - Gary Kinsman and J. Charbonneau Critique of a Canadian neo-Maoist organization and its student front.
An “entirely different” kind of union: the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), 1972–1986 – Julia Smith An in depth article which examines the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union…
To praise Ginger Goodwin is to revere a radical – Mark Leier Feisty miner reminds that comfortable compromisers are easily forgotten. In this piece (originally…
Rent Strike in Toronto Two hundred tenants are on rent strike in Toronto against increases they say are meant to price them out of their homes.
1970: The Vancouver to Ottawa Abortion Caravan In 1970 a group of Feminist embarked on a caravan tour from Vancouver to Ottawa to protest the lack of rights to access to abortion in Canada.