Review by Steve Lalla Many informed Canadians remain surprisingly unenlightened about the country’s military history. Canada’s military is widely viewed as either nonexistent, irrelevant or a force for good. The Canadian Forces’ (CF) public [...]
Recovery: Peace prospects in the Biden era (2020) Author: Douglas Roche Publisher: Khalid Yaqub Reviewed by Ed Lehman Douglas Roche’s latest book contains a lot of valuable information and could be an important stimulus to [...]
Maoism: A Global History 2019 Author: Julia Lovell Publisher: Penguin Random House Reviewed by Brian W. Major Julia Lovell’s book is a detailed study of the history, impact, appeal and legacy of Mao Zedong and Maoism globally. [...]
Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA Author: Udo Ulfkotte Publisher: Progressive Press, 2019 Review by Tim Pelzer It is well documented that the CIA uses the media to spread disinformation. After 1945, in what is known as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
