Until We are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada
2019
Edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware
University of Regina Press
Review by Helen Kennedy
White supremacy and colonialism aim to erase the [...]
The North-West Is Our Mother
2019
Jean Teillet
Harper Collins
Review by Kimball Cariou
The development of nations often takes millennia, or at least centuries, a complicated process of forging a common language, culture, history and [...]
A Worker’s Friend
Peter Marcus
2019
Granville Island Publishing
“Poetry is a reflection of the society in which we live and its past and its political future,” writes Peter Marcus in the introduction to his book of poetry, A Worker’s [...]
Planet of the Humans (2019)
Released on YouTube, April 2020
Written and Directed by Jeff Gibbs
Producer Michael Moore
April 2020 was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and environmentalist all around the world marked this date in [...]
Michael Moore is an amazing documentary filmmaker whose work, such as Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), has inspired viewers around the world. His first celebrated documentary was Roger and Me, released in 1989 and celebrated [...]
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
(2013)
Author: James Daschuk
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Review by Kimball Cariou
What economic system extends its reach across entire [...]
Many progressive folks living in Canada consider the historical legacy of Protestant-based community organizations to be a positive one. As examples of this progressive legacy, they often point to Tommy Douglas, the first social-democratic premier [...]
Normand Raymond
A social explosion is shaking Chile – an unceasing wave of massive demonstrations which began October 18, demanding better living conditions and aiming to replace General Pinochet’s fascist 1980 constitution through a people’s [...]
Norman Bethune in Spain: Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy
(2013)
Author: David Lethbridge
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Few figures in Canadian history remain as popular as Norman Bethune. This despite a plethora of books, films and [...]
A Socialist Defector: from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
Author: Victor Grossman
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2019
Thirty one years ago the Berlin Wall came down and the working class in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East [...]